On Thursday, 6 September 2018 19:22:53 UTC+1, Graham Easterling wrote:
On Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 6:55:37 PM UTC+1, wrote:
On Thursday, 6 September 2018 18:12:59 UTC+1, John Hall wrote:
In message , Graham P Davis
writes
Not yet 1700Z and I've had to put the lights on. Bah, humbug!


The same here in Cranleigh. It's remarkable, since up till three or four
hours ago there wasn't a cloud in the sky.
--
John Hall
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history
that man can never learn anything from history."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

I stashed all the garden furniture away here near Brighton about 1600 convinced the heavens were about to open, Not a drop of rain but really dull..

Rob

Meanwhile, very attractive sky in the far SW as the sun sets
http://www.scillyman.co.uk/Lowertown_Cam.html

Mentioning Christmas before December should in room 101, together with people who get to supermarket checkouts seemingly unaware that they need to pay, people that won't vacate busy cafe tables when they have finished their drink . . .

Graham
Penzance

Christmas now starts well before my birthday (17 Nov) when the lights go up in shopping areas, reminding us of the true purpose of these festivities which is to get you to buy stuff neither you or anybody else really wants thereby enriching local businesses which are mostly mere satellites of some vast corporate behemoth anyway. If these businesses need people to throw money at them in order to stay alive there's something wrong with The System.
On the other hand I do send Christmas cards, mostly slightly dodgy ones purchased from Private Eye or my local Patel's fine selection.

Tudor Hughes