wrote:

As a rural living Northener

Please define 'rural' and 'Northerner'.
--
MCC who was born and brought up in Orkney
and worked in Shetland for several years.

On Dec 15, 2:54*pm, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Dec 15, 1:44*pm, wrote:



I like to try and polarise opinions and issues like this, CG and maybe
even just the waether itself is capable of and will always do this.

* * * *Any fool can do that. *All you've done is set Lawrence off so
he's careering round the room bumping into things like a derailed
clockwork train. *It's the last thing this group needs - all heat and
no light. *In any case the snow hasn't even occurred yet and in the
Greater London area is unlikely to.

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Well, the heavy rain does look like turning to wet snow as it starts
to clear east Friday morning, including the SE. A slushy covering in
places, mainly high ground, but little chance of settling on roads
otherwise. Verges and whatnot maybe.

Stephen.

in 346950 20111215 125715 Buchan Meteo wrote:
darrog scrive:

As a rural living Northener (still have outside earth toilets, no
running water and no electric)

Must find out how to access the internet without electricity. It would be
most helpful during power cuts.

Easy, smartphone charged in the car.

the last time that i looked a 'forecast' was a prediction of something
that will/might happen - that's probably why it hasn't happened yet
and in particular when it's the forceast for tomorrow!!

Been described as 'any fool' is really one of the kindest compliments
bestowed upon me of late.

define rural and Northerner.

rural is surely well understood whether you linve N E S or W.

Northerner is far more subjective, someone living in Penrith is a
southerner to someone 19 miles up the road at carlisle!! somoene that
I knew once said there wasn't anything decent south of the M62, bit
harsh one feels.
But obviously Orkney and Shetland makes you fairly Northern, but is
that not also an islander, a scottish islander, is someone from Orkney
not a southerner to someone from Shetland?

On Dec 15, 2:54*pm, Tudor Hughes wrote:
On Dec 15, 1:44*pm, wrote:



I like to try and polarise opinions and issues like this, CG and maybe
even just the waether itself is capable of and will always do this.

* * * *Any fool can do that. *All you've done is set Lawrence off so
he's careering round the room bumping into things like a derailed
clockwork train. *It's the last thing this group needs - all heat and
no light. *In any case the snow hasn't even occurred yet and in the
Greater London area is unlikely to. *As Messrs Cornwell and Davenport
observe, "This is SO-oooooo boring!"

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

I'm not or haven't been careering around any room Tudor. I just sit
down, close my eyes and imagine the steam hissing out of the end of
your trombone.

And if I were a clockwork train it would a hornby dublo unlike your
wishy washy triang.
I see posts on here moaning about the MSM sensationalising the weather
yet they only have to visit the UKMO warning web pages where only
recently the yellow peril threatened the very existence of the British
Isles at one stage.

The end of the world is scheduled for next year in 2012.
LOL.

Will
--

On Dec 15, 12:54*pm, Dave Cornwell wrote:
wrote:
As a rural living Northener (still have outside earth toilets, no
running water and no electric) I notice that the world is due to a
come to an end tomorrow:

SNOW is forecast for the south and in particular the greater London
area.

what will they do, how will they cope?
the traffic jams will be miles long, people stuck in jams or on trains
for hours upon hrs, the radio talk shows will only focus on this one
subject, resignations will be demanded, questions asked in parliament
- how can this happen, its supposed to be mild, how does the country
grind to a halt because of one snowflake?

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Why do people have to raise this drivel every winter - it's soooooooo
boring.

I agree on the part about this North south thing-that does get tiring.

Yes the NvS thing is boring, but then divides do not just exist
between North and South, one example:

Back home N.Notts and Lincolnshire border is the river Trent, for the
Lincs yellow bellies if you were from Notts you were "other side of
water." and that was it.
divides are boring, unlike the weather, but like the weather is very
much there.

I suppose one other test might be thus:

1" of snow up here = no mention in the media
1" of snow midlands and south = mention in the media

"Dave Cornwell" wrote in message
...
wrote:
As a rural living Northener (still have outside earth toilets, no
running water and no electric) I notice that the world is due to a
come to an end tomorrow:

SNOW is forecast for the south and in particular the greater London
area.

what will they do, how will they cope?
the traffic jams will be miles long, people stuck in jams or on trains
for hours upon hrs, the radio talk shows will only focus on this one
subject, resignations will be demanded, questions asked in parliament
- how can this happen, its supposed to be mild, how does the country
grind to a halt because of one snowflake?

--------------------
Why do people have to raise this drivel every winter - it's soooooooo
boring.

Or at the very least wait until the event has happened and there
are actual examples of where we haven't coped.
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl