Preparedness for when

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ALIBOBSY wrote: »

My OH is actually quite brazen about not answering to unexpected people/people he doesn't know.

That becomes second nature, when you are LLF.

Witless

mardatha wrote: »

Pineapple - the RV wants to ask -re that village in Heartbeat - is the pub and the wee garage over the road from the pub, still there?

http://www.thegoathlandhotel.co.uk/index.php/heartbeat/

Doesn't mention the garage though, and there don't seem to be Google street views of Grosmont which appears to have been Aidensfield.

nuatha

mardatha wrote: »

It's a tiny wee dot under Durham!! I know this I know this lolol

If your map is large enough to show Durham it has to have Yorkshire at a decent size. Yorkshire was the largest county in England and North Yorkshire still is. (Big enough that some of us wish it would go independent and act as a buffer state between us and London.

pineapple wrote: »

Indeed and on a similar note some Hebden Bridge campaigners insist
that the destruction and poor management of the upland areas have contributed to their regular flooding.
It's not all about building a flippin wall.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/29/deluge-farmers-flood-grouse-moor-drain-land

They'd be right.
I'd first come across this idea in the wake of the Boscastle flooding (2004) to have a friend point me to articles predicting these problems written in the 50s and 60s. It seems we've been ignoring sensible practise for a long time.

mardatha

I know nuatha, I was just being evil.

nuatha

mardatha wrote: »

I know nuatha, I was just being evil.

Its the bits further South that I try to ignore

GreyQueen

nuatha wrote: »

Its the bits further South that I try to ignore

We're not all bad people Dahn Sarf.

Pertiddling down here but not freakishly so.

Very interesting article, nuatha, thanks for linking to it.

nuatha

GreyQueen wrote: »

We're not all bad people Dahn Sarf.

Pertiddling down here but not freakishly so.

Very interesting article, nuatha, thanks for linking to it.

There's wonderful people even inside the M25, but there's also some seriously warped b!ggers who have twisted ideas about how to run the country.
I'll admit to a serious fondness for East Anglia, where I do spend a chunk of time most years and the West country (though I visit there less often than I used to). Given Herself is from Hampshire I'd be in serious trouble if I stuck to rigidly to the anti-South idea
There's good, bad and indifferent folks in just about any area, my big problem is that I don't cope well with lots of people. I can manage about a week in London before the people pressure and frantic energy get to me. The more rural and laid back an area is the more likely I am to be able to cope.

moneyistooshorttomention

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

That becomes second nature, when you are LLF.

What's LLF Bob?

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Y'can't get much further south than we are without being in the ocean!!!please don't disown us just acos we're from Hampyshireland, we're it has to be said the scruffiest people in our village and prone to wellies and lurchas and compost heapses but we're kinda useful as preppers and certainly have our wellies planted firmly on terra firma!!! Let me stay!!!!!

If you can manage a week in the Smoke NUATHA you have much more staying power than I do, just the thought of getting on the train to go there has me running in the opposite direction as fast as I can! hate it like poison!!!

thriftwizard

A week in London? I take my hat off to you - I can manage 2 days max!

The rain has eased off now here & the last few hours were clear & sparkling, though it's clouding over again now. DD1 & I went for a quick stroll up at our local high spot, from where we can see the Isle of Wight, quite a bit of New Forest, little bits of Wiltshire and almost over to Somerset, and there are large areas of reflections, i.e. flooding, visible down in the valleys. As it's mostly farmland, I doubt if it'll be reported anywhere, but OH has just got back from work down in the conurbation & had to take several detours on the way back; roads closed due to flooding.

I know we're lucky in that very few people's lives will be disrupted at all by this, but it doesn't bode well for a week of rain, rain & more rain - the ground is FULL UP now!