On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 16:10:14 +0000
Metman2012 wrote:

On 03/12/2014 14:10, Eskimo Will wrote:

"Stephen Davenport" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 11:33:56 AM UTC,
wrote:

Gosh eraser and 4B pencil - those were the days, I went
through erasers incredibly quickly iirc :-)

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I seem to recall a frequent shortage of 4B pencils as well, because
Ray Nurney (?) used to hoard them.
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Ah yes Ray Nurney, he was a dour sort of chappie, nice though.
Purple crayons were always in short supply. My favourite was blue as
that was what you used to colour sleet/snow obs as. :-)
Haven't drawn up a chart for 20 years.
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Will
If you haven't drawn up (using gridding) charts at 10, 5,2 and 1mb
you haven't lived. I was in the Stratospheric section in Met O 20
when I first went to Bracknell, and that was part of my job...

And when I started, you had one biro issued and had to hand that one
in when it ran out before getting a replacement. Hard to use a biro
when it's got a padlock and chain on it!

Early one Monday morning, when I was getting ready to prepare the slides
for 0830 briefing, I found the coloured markers were missing; our
beloved leader had locked them away in his desk before the weekend (we
were a 5-day forecasting station). Luckily, the assistant was a
resourceful fellow and knew where the tools were and so we unscrewed
the table-top from the pedestals. We were therefore able to get the
markers and I could go ahead with preparing for the briefing. In the
other pedestal was a bottle of whiskey that had been presented to the
staff as a Christmas present by a grateful customer some time before.
We gave the problem a deal of thought but were unable to come up with a
way to extract the contents and replace them with some liquid of a
similar colour and reseal the bottle so that he wouldn't notice. Shame.

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks.
[Retired meteorologist and computer programmer]
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