Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

Generali

Doozergirl wrote: »

That would look like here. If here looked anything like that. What's that blue colour in the sky? How do they make that happen?

It looks like the UK from a distance.

However those beautiful trees in the background are gum trees which look and smell nothing like English trees up close. They smell very faintly of Vicks vapour rub in a good way.

Strictly speaking the blue in the sky is due to photons of light hitting oxygen atoms and as the electrons drop back to a lower quantum state of excitement they release light that is bluer and sent out at a right angle to the point of entry.

The reason the sky is blue rather than black (at 7am perhaps) or grey (at any time of day) is due to an absence of being far too close to the Arctic/Antarctic and an absence of living in a place that has far too many clouds.

Unfortunately for the Bungendorians, they get lovely weather a little too often so water is a problem or more accurately a lack of water is a problem. People in Staines etc. have a water problem too I understand, albeit of a very different nature.

Wheezy_2

No damage at ours. Just the recycling bin blown over. But it was emptied Friday morning.
Hope all NP's and their properties are safe.

Generali

Wheezy wrote: »

No damage at ours. Just the recycling bin blown over. But it was emptied Friday morning.
Hope all NP's and their properties are safe.

Glad to hear it old chap.

This sort of thing comes as a reminder that some things are out of our hands. We can do all the right things and still sometimes it all goes breasts up.

Wheezy_2

zagubov wrote: »

I've visited low-lying countries near here via work and it seems to me we're the only country whose country's so negligent that we let houses disappear under water or fall into the sea. What in the world are we wasting our taxes on?

What does our government thinks it's for?

For a country surrounded by water, the UK surely scores low on coastal management and sea defences.
On the news yesterday or the day before: some Welsh coastal village...yes, sea levels could be rising by 10cm...yep..we'll need to give up most of the village...how sad.
Tell that to the Dutch with about half the country below sea level. :cool:

CKhalvashi

Wheezy wrote: »

No damage at ours. Just the recycling bin blown over. But it was emptied Friday morning.
Hope all NP's and their properties are safe.

I've lost a fence panel. Only annoyance is that I can see it from the conservatory, but hardly a big deal!

Wheezy_2

CKhalvashi wrote: »

My sister lives in one of those houses...........

Do you mind telling what river that is, CK?

I issue an amber alert for rising water levels on the Thames - Windsor to Kingston stretch - on Sunday evening/Monday morning.
Becoming quite an expert on rainfall/river level timings

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Hope everyone slept ok. Fell asleep with tv on here, did a bit of a job reducing the noise but not the greatest sleep.

First light soon, will be able to check what has happened out there. Hope the barn, and more importantly fir, are ok lir. Good luck to all the other NPs as they open their curtains and survey what's happening.

Yep, were fine.


Looks like the rest of the roof hung on. DH eventually made it home more or less in time to let the dogs out this mornin after a very circuitous route having me some lovely but equally stupid drivers then a taxi from solstice park.


Only real issue here is not in the least weather related. I have a pretty major expression of pain in my upper back. I cannot breath in deeply. After a nap I can roll about a bit but I haven't tried walking since DH got home...he did morning stuff before coming to bed. So, now I'm building up courage to go for a wee then see if I can start to stretch out the muscles myself.

DH did have to come home after all.....to rub my back. :rotfl:

SiroGarmr

We're so lucky -- all I've seen one slate on the pavement outside the shop. Apart from that, just some bin lids banging the other night.

Generali

I don't know if you all remember but a pine cone the size of a water melon fell out of a tree next to my bus stop.

Well after a few weeks of drying out the Generalissimos and I have picked out the nuts. We got, at a guess, 100 from each cone. Maybe slightly fewer.

I roasted one and it tastes a lot like a chestnut although shaped like a giant almond, about the length of an AAA battery but with the same relative dimensions as an almond.

Generali: bush tucker geezer.

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

I don't know if you all remember but a pine cone the size of a water melon fell out of a tree next to my bus stop.

Well after a few weeks of drying out the Generalissimos and I have picked out the nuts. We got, at a guess, 100 from each cone. Maybe slightly fewer.

I roasted one and it tastes a lot like a chestnut although shaped like a giant almond, about the length of an AAA battery but with the same relative dimensions as an almond.

Generali: bush tucker geezer.

That sounds amazing!!!!