Conference vaxcat::ef97

Ayr, 15;00 hrs 10th Feb '97. This may be the last time you hear from me!!

The office here is one of those bolt together in 2 hours port-a-cabin affairs.
Currently the roof is trying very hard to detach itself and fly away in gale
force wind. It is difficult to hear other people on the phone due to the
sleet/hail crashing against the window and due to being held up behind three
separate JCBs induced tailbacks this morning I was late and had to park at
least 100 yards from the plant.

The end of the world is nigh!

Rgds, Steve. 


Started a lovely sunny day in Livingsgrad this morning.  Now the snow is being
driven by a pretty strong westerly wind.

Lovely...

//atp

    Nijmegen is very wet and windy but not to cold.
    
    Fortunatly for us yesterday was pleasant for the Carnival, unfortunatly
    for many today is the K�ln Carnival	;-0
    
    gerbil$old_hand_at_carnivals

    
    	nashua is having very nice weather as i type.
    	temps are above freezing at about 35F, sun is
    	shining.
    	although, we are expecting flurry activity by 
    	tomorrow with temps dropping below freezing,
    	AGAIN, i'll just enjoy today.
    
    	punxatawney phil did NOT see his shadow,
    	therefore, spring is right around the corner. 

    
    >Note 10.19 by SUPER::DENISE "unholy water.... sanguine addiction.
    
    > nashua is having very nice weather as i type.  
    
    Littleton isn't too bad either!!!!!
    
    POL

    Hate to say it guys, but it reached 38C in Sydney's west at the
    weekend. :-)
    
    Loverllly...
    

    
     Mind you, it rained this morning, causing the sheep-like moron
    drivers to bang into each other repeatedly down the freeway and
    costing me two hours and fifteen minutes of my life for what is
    normally a one hour and ten minute drive.
    
     S'funny how those drivers who overtake on the remains of the
    diminishing inside lane after the others have merged politely,
    are also the drivers without their lights on despite conditions.
    
     At least it is still warm though.
    
    A/.

    
    	oh go away, you two.

    
     Yesterday was the wettest day in Sydney for five years. Quite
    a lot of trivial flooding, with some more serious stuff in places
    I've never heard of. A few people had their houses washed away.
    
     I love summer.
    
    ;-)

    
    	you're really pushing it, andy.
    
    	and in the real world...
    	temps in new england have been in a consistent
    	*COLD* pattern with the odd flurry here and there.
    	little accummulation to speak of. today and tomorrow
    	we're expecting freezing rain. this trend will
    	continue until saturday where the weatherpeople 
    	are teasing us that it will reach 40F, of course,
    	they've been wrong all along now....  

    Nothing but lashing rain and gale force winds to report in blustery
    Basingstoke.
    
    Chris

    
    	are you bragging, chris?

    Not yet...

    After two days of Gales and Heavy Rain it's really nce out there.
    
    Blue skies with tufts of could, some wind but hey this is Holland it
    *always* blows here
    
    Anyway I'm thinking of Poets
    
    gerbil$tgif

    It's very pleasant in Dublin today, let's hope it stays fine for the
    match tomorrow.
    
    Cheers, Laurie.

    I was almost home last night when the oil pressure lamp flickered as I
    went round a tight corner. Naturally by the time I actually got home I
    forgot to put some oil in.

    It was blowing a gale last night and as I lay awake listening to the
    plastic cover on the BBQ blow about in the wind I suddenly remembered.

    I could not be bothered getting up at 01:30 to either deal with the
    plastic cover or the oil so I put a pair of earplugs in and fell
    asleep.

    This morning I got up, took the earplugs out and remembered to put oil
    in the car. The one thing that I could not find was the funnel. After
    inquiring of Harry I discovered that he had been using it to fill the
    lawnmower and it was in the garden shed.

    I went out the kitchen door torch in hand and eventually came back in
    without the funnel.

    "I'm sure it was in the shed." said Harry.

    "What shed?" I asked. "There is a pile of scrap metal out there."

    Say so tonight's task will be, rescuing the contents and storing them
    somewhere else.

    Well at least I got the oil in the car engine using a bit of cardboard
    as a funnel.
                                                   
    Jamie.

    It was annoying last night, the gusts kept blowing the SAT dish out of
    sync so watching TV was a lesson in strobe effects...
    
    TV - Snow - Coded Picture - TV...
    
    It's blowing fairly hard now the flags are horizontal
    
    Now where did I leave that windsurfer?
    
    gerbil$must_fix_the_videos

When Marie moved into Bannockburn her garden shed was just beside the house.
It was empty, as she had just moved in and had no garden tools yet.

The following day, the shed had migrated to the back of the garden.

Ain't the wind wonderful!

//atp

    No wind here, and when it does blow, it's a *warm* mistral.
    Warm and sunny today - a pleasant 19-20c, and not a cloud in the
    sky....sun's a bit bright though - need shades :-)
    
    	Simon

    Sunny but windy in Nijmegen
    
    Temp's not to bad and flowers can be seen attempting to poke their
    heads out of the ground.
    
    Oh! and a very *large* Rabbit (hare?) is busy chasing the birds on the
    lawn outside my window
    
    gerbil$spring_is_in_the_air
    

    
     On Sunday evening I stood alone on the beach in the face of a 
    raging gale. All the other fishing folks had buggered off when 
    the  rains started, but I'd spent nearly three dollars on my
    packet of prawns and I wasn't going to eat them myself. With 
    the angry dark green sea first sucking at my legs as if it wanted 
    to pull me in, then throwing waves over my head as if helpfully 
    putting the fire out, I fished on regardless.
    
     Caught only a few Bream initially - mainly due to not being able 
    to hold the fishing rod still enough to feel bites. 
           
     Eventually, I was presented with a sunny interval, a reduction
    in the size of the waves and thirty or so more Bream, Yellow Fin
    and a couple of Flatheads. I let them all go with a warning not 
    to be so gullable again.
    
     The temperature briefly went down to 20C during the storm.
    
     Do that at Skegness, even in the summer, and see what happens.
    
    God, I LOVE Australia!
    
     A/.                                                   

  Hobbs,

  If I ever bump into you I'll knock your bleeding block off!! I too
  spent some of yesterday standing in the teeth of gale but the temp was
  not much above freezing with a wind chill of minus several squillion.
  I managed to get three rhubarb crowns planted, moved a small lilac
  tree and half prepared an onion bed before I finally said sod it and
  retreated to the house. Twice previously I had to nip indoors as
  heavy showers of hail stones sweep across. It took a good hour and
  most of a large pot of coffee to stop me shivering. It was the first
  time I've ever known wind to go straight though a Barber jacket. 

  The afternoon was supposed to be taking up outside fitting a new
  canvas to our folding camper but instead was spent inside staring out
  of the window watching dustbins, cats, dogs, and small children flying
  past in the wind. By the end of yesterday the whole family where
  climbing the walls with boredom!

  Sometimes I hate living on the Scottish coast. For about three weeks
  now the wind has howled almost non-stop, and by the end of yesterday I
  was howling pretty well myself.

  Rgds, Steve.


    Yesterday was reserved for the Sprog's first visit to the Zoo.
    
    After the glorious weather on Saturday we were hopeful...
    
    WRONG!
    
    It was flaming 'orrible, mind you with the hangover I had (crying into
    my beer of England/France) I wasn't toooooo upset	;-)
    
    Anyway we did managed to get down to the River, well we tried, seems
    someone has decided to turn the Waalkade into an duck pond!
    
    It's not as bad as the floods a couple of years ago but it's early days
    yet.
    
    Naturally today is wonderful with clear skies and light wind.
    
    :sigh
    
    gerbil$uder_water

The weather is gearing up for the Easter holiday with gentle gales and warm
soft wet stuff coming down from the sky.

//atp

    
    	oooh that's just horrible, mr::POTTER.
    	
    	here in new england it will be a balmy 50-ish F
    	with perhaps a sprinkle or 2. nothing too disastrous.

    It's raining here in Dublin, and it's grey and overcast. Yukk. Still, I
    fly out to Brussels for Easter at 16:25 today.
    
    Cheers, Laurie.

    it is pissing down in Galway, but it may pick up for the weekend.
    
    ..Kevin..

    It's bright and sunny in Reading.
    
    Goldy.

    ditto in downtown Basingstoke.
    
    Chris

    
    In Galway, to continue from Gerbil's observations of a few years ago,
    it is raining. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same rain cloud.
    
    Chris

    
    And I've just seen .42
    
    Fancy a pint sometime?
    
    Chris

    
    	new england is getting warmer...
    	it's a bit overcast, but this is temporary.
    	and probably not accurate either.
    
    	i hate new england winters.

    It is a lovely day in Galway today, and they are promising a super
    weekend! Daffodils everywhere, trees sprouting, 
    
    The winter it is gone 
    and the summer has come at last...

    
    Hi
    
    In Paris it's warm, sunny, blue skies and big fluffy clouds
    
    Really springtime
    
    Kerry

    
     On the Central Coast today it was around 31C, with early morning
    sunshine fading into a warm and sunny afternoon and a sunny evening
    thankfully blessed by a strong sea breeze. Otherwise the fishing
    would've been a bit too warm.
    
     Soon it'll be winter here and I'll post a note when the weather
    is ghastly, so that you can tell me it is good there. We've done
    the Dorian Gray thing for a while now, missing winter for a year
    or so. Time to let it catch us up as the funds don't stretch to
    racing it around the world again.
    
     Happy Easter one and all. Especially those who attach meaning
    to it.
    
     A/.

    In Brussels, it's pretty windy, with alternating rain/hail and lovely
    sunshine.
    
    Cheers, Laurie.

    
    	while you lot were celebrating easter monday...
    
    	the east coast has been preparing for a serious
    	nor'easter coming our way...
    	we expect between 10-20" of snow by tuesday midday.
        winds will be gusting up to 60 mph.
    	if you can't contact us, we've probably become 
    	electronically disconnected.
    
    	tomorrow is definitately a snow day.
    
    	mother nature has a cruel sense of humour....
    	

    	we expect between 10-20" of snow by tuesday midday.
        winds will be gusting up to 60 mph.

The 60mph winds wouldn't worry me, but the 10-20@ of snow...keep
your heads down!

regards,
//alan

    
    Winter is setting little steel traps for us, too. 
    
    Yesterday evening, as darkness began to fall around 18:00 (We 
    just put the clocks back, at last), I found that as I sat t-shirted 
    and in shorts, fishing on the wharf my hands became slightly chilly
    in the southerly (Those are cold for us - northerlies are warm)
    breeze.
    
    We don't have heating in the house. Nor air conditioning (rental
    house). Have to get a couple of doonas in for the winter evenings.
    Apparently, it gets down to single figures (C) at night.
    
    Still, with any luck my application for full residency will fail
    and I'll be deported in time for English summer. ;^)
    
    Andy$Making_The_Best_Of_Another_Stressful_Immigration_Nightmare.

    Nijmegen has had a great couple of days, Warm days, Sunny, light breeze
    etc...
    
    Ok Overnight was a bit of a frost but hey, it's gone by 10:00
    
    Now if I could only kill off this damn cold...
    
    gerbil$cough_man

    It's as lovely a day here in Dublin, as yesterday was in France and
    Belgium.
    
    Cheers, Laurie.

    Warm and sunny in Reading today (after a sunshiney weekend in
    Hampshire) but the sun is shining through the skylights in DECpark D1
    and I can hardly see my screen.
    
    Goldy.

    
    	the verdict...and YES!! i was able to log in....
    
    	all total we got 18" of snow. a little north west of
    	us got 33"...small town of jaffrey has finally gotten
    	its claim to fame.
    
    	the temps are up in the 40s F, and lowland houses 
    	will experience some moisture in their basements.
    
    	

    
     Why don't you move ? Would that just remove all conversational
    subject matter ? I can't see why anyone would stay in a country
    that is so unpleasantly cold. Although I might end up back in
    soggy England if this PR Visa stuff is as ugly as it looks, I'll
    not be there for long I hope.
    
    A/>

    Andy,
    
    You forgot to mention miserable, crowded and polluted in your glowing
    reference to England.
    
    CHARLOTTE

    You forgot to mention miserable, crowded and polluted in your glowing
    reference to England.
    
Gosh, amazing - CHARLOTTE and I have agreed twice in the one day!

regards,
//alan

    
    	andy,
    	i'll move when i retire, until then i plan on 
    	exercising my gawd given birthright to bitch 
    	about the weather.
    
    	thank you very much.

    That should be "Gawd". Even from you ma'am.
    
    Andrew

    
    	no sir, mr. dodd...
    	it's gawd...PERIOD!
    
    	am i making myself clear??

    As it is "that time of the month" I'll forgive you anything.
    
    Hugs
    
    Andrew

    From the stunning early part of the week, Nijmegen, is once more 
    Wet, Windy and Cold.
    
    Just in time for the weekend!
    
    gerbil$at_least_the_garden_needs_it

    
    	you rascal, mr. dodd.
    
    	we were supposed to get dumped on with more snow...
    	 but somebody up there likes us, so the storm took
    	a turn southward and then out to sea.
    
    	praise allah!
    
    	temps are in the 50s and the sun is in and out.
    	i'm NOT complaining.

    It's cloudy and windy in Dublin, on this (working) Saturday morning...
    
    Cheers, Laurie.

    Cold, Dry with a ground frost!
    
    Guess who planted his seedlings yesterday
    
    gerbil$hoping

    
    	lovely over here in nashuAY...
    	temps this morning were at 57F expected to climb
    	to perhaps high 60s. the snow we were hit with last	
    	week is just a dripping puddle of the past.
    
    	break out the sun tan oil 15 spf

    
     Wierd weather here. 
    
    We had 29C at the weekend and 16C ever since. Apparently, the wind
    direction is the culprit. 
    
    I've become so un-used to the winter now I've missed it for a year,
    that I had to wear, instead of the armless T-shirt I'm used to, a 
    T-shirt with short sleeves this morning to the gym!
    
    Imagine what it'll be like in winter time.
    
    A/.

    Nijmegen is gourgous, light breeze, blue skies and the rabbits are out 
    on the grass in front of me.
    
    So what the 'king hell am I doing indoors?
    
    gerbil$leaving_early

    it is lovely and mild here in Galway and the fields are full of dandelions.
    
    ..Kevin..

    It's lovely and mild here in Dublin, too. The sun's shining a treat out
    there in the wide world.
    
    Cheers, Laurie.

    
    	it's cold here in the northeastern part of the states.
    	not half as cold as it is in the northern midwest...
    	heard tell it was snowing and the highs this morning
    	at -3 to -12F (the dakotas & minnesota).
    
    	winter just won't let go.
    
    	and to think just yesterday it was all warm and sunny.

Hi All,

Blue sky and sunshine here in Newbury  (on a Saturday afternoon)


Wish I was out there 


Ian

    It's very pleasant here in Ipswich, on this busy Sunday afternoon.
    
    Cheers, Laurie.

    
     Cooling rapidly here in Australia. Big fluctuations in daily temp
    apparently due to direction of the wind.
    
     Cool enough at night to require sheets on the bed and I've put the
    electric fans away for the winter.
    
     Have to get some duvets for the kids shortly.
    
     Can't wait to see how cool it'll get!
    
     A/.

    
    	andy hobbs really does get up my nose, sometimes.
    
    	weather here (new england...like you didn't already
    	know) is cool and breezy... snow from a fort nite is
    	all gone, and ground maintenance has begun in the
    	neighborhood. 
    
    	fingers crossed to see if my 2 trees have made it.

    Re: .78
    
    It never gets very cold here, that is, if you're comparing against 
    European cold. The daytime temps usually are very pleasant throughout winter
    with a drop overnight. I think around 6 degrees is coldest average for
    Sydney, although on rare ocassions it can be lower. Another good thing
    is that winter is the dry season here. Am I pissing you off Denise? :-)

    Sure, it's a grand day in Dublin.
    
    Cheers, Laurie.

    
    	no mr:RUSSELLGARY, i'm not pissed off, yet.
    
    	this morning was a crisp 20F....with temps 
    	expected to hit 40/50 by midday. sun will be
    	shining with those nice fluffy clouds merrily
    	floating in the sky.... taunting us as usual.
    
    	the next following days will see the same, 
    	cloudiness expected to turn into rain towards
    	the end of the week and then snow.
    
    	<slits her wrists>

    a dash of rain would be good for the hay.
    
    No rain here for 13 days. Drought threatening.
    
    ..Kevin..

    
    
    No rain for 13 days, you poor little thing.
    
    Over here, last time we had rain was on January 20th !!!
    
    Scoobydoo in drought stricken France.

    Is this the result of global warming? Droughts in April?
    
    ..Kevin..

    
     More likely to be the normal course of events. Weather appears
    to be cyclic with warming and cooling averages over hundreds of
    years, according to some stuff I've read ont he subject. 
    
    Trouble is that we have such short term records, it is hard to
    understand the weather on a large scale.
    
     A/.

    I'm holding out for another ice age so I can go snowboarding and skiing
    all the time.
    
    Chris :-}

    
    	bugger off, chris.
    	and i mean that quite sincerely.

    what is the weather like in the uk today, interested in Newmarket area
    ?
    
    ..Kevin..

    In Ipswich, not far from Newmarket, it's cool, a little windy, and
    overcast. It rained quite a lot yesterday.
    
    HTH, Laurie.

    Here in Brussels, it's spent most of the day chucking it down... Yukk.
    
    Cheers, Laurie.

    
    	after discussing the weather in another note with ros,
    	we have had a turnaround in weather conditions here in
    	new england...
    	thunderstorms by mid day with winds gusting at about 10
    	mph.... and a high of 50F.
    
    	bah humbug
    

    Following a stunning weekend which had us in the Garden with steaks on
    the Barbi, we're now back to normal.
    
    aka Wind, Rain and cold
    
    gerbil$got-his_brolly

    There was snow in County Galway yesterday, and quite a lot of sheep
    have already been shorn, the poor dears
    
    ..Kevin..

    
    	it's up to you men to keep them warm in the best way
    	you know how.

    It's been 5 deg C all day, and pissing with rain in Brussels today.
    
    Cheers, Laurie$cold.

    
    Re: Note by Denise..'after discussing the weather in another note...'
    
    So your conversation was responsible for the change ? Fantastic. Could
    you reverse winter and make it summer twice here ?
    
    Re: Jamie putting steaks on the Barbi. 
    
    I've met the lady in question and I'm shocked by your mis-treatment
    of her. Was it some kind of rain-creating ritual ?
    
    A/.

    I has to scrape the frost off my car windows this morning.

    Jamie.

    
    	wind's blowing a piggin' gale (not as bad as in england,
    	but we're big sissies when it comes to 20+ mph winds)
    	it's lowering the temps to high 30s.
    
    	and.... to make matters worse... it's expected to snow
    	in southwestern parts of new hampshire.
    
    	i think i'm gonna cry.
    
    	andy,
    	i can't,  it was merely coincidence that it happened.

    Chin Up ::DENISE.
    
    
    Chris

    
    	easy for you to say, chris, aren't you having the good 
    	weather???
    
    	

    >aren't you having the good weather???
    
    Nope.  Infact this weekend I went camping in the Lake District and on
    Sunday night it was so windy and it rained so hard, out tent blew down.
    
    Fortunatly we were getting pithed in the pub at the time, but when we
    got back our sleeping bags were in about 3 inches of cold muddy rain
    water.
    
    All in all and very damp day.
    
    Chris
    

    
    	at least you were too pickled to care.