Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

Nikkster

I managed to sleep through last nights thunder storms, but it's started again here. LOUD! I thought a lorry had overturned outside.

LydiaJ

We had impressive lightning and thunder, with rain that was heavy and then not and then heavy and then not, in the early hours. All calm and dry here now, though, with about 50% cloud cover.

tomterm8

We had really impressive overhead lightning... rain... power cut. I woke up to the lightning, thought, "cool lightning" then went back to sleep.

Nikkster

I'm guessing we had storms here, but if we did, I slept through them. It had definitely rained overnight. I'd nodded off again, but was woken up by thunder. The sky is already brightening, so I'm hoping we get back to the plan of sunny weather

Nikkster

PN- I'm pretty sure your curtain rails came from Ikea. Might help you narrow down (unintended joke), what length they might be...

Generali

Cool and dry here today. It struggled up to about 15C in the day I reckon. That's pretty cold for a country which has almost no central heating or insulation or even doors that fit doorways.

FWIW (basically nothing) the Aussies are pretty cross about the airliner getting shot down. There were more Aussie passengers on board than any other nationality bar the Dutch and Aussies are very parochial about this stuff. Lots of sabre rattling going on over here although well within the abilities of Australia to achieve stuff (i.e. nothing except beg the Americans to sort it out)

In some ways it's quite refreshing to be in a country that knows its place in the world. The Brits and French can start a war if they ask the Americans nicely first. The Aussies? We can't do anything about anything. Even the old adverts to join the army here were about how you'd get to deliver aid to poor people.

My feeling is that if this idiot had shot down an American plane then this might pan out very differently but ultimately nobody cares about a bunch of Dutchies and Aussies.

As for the bloke that shot the plane down? Grow a proper 'tache:



Pathetic.

Oh and the Dutchie/Aussie thing reminds me. Remember P@k1gate? One of the idiot royals called his mate a P@k1. Aussies didn't understand the problem: "I'm an Aussie from Australia, what the heck else do you call someone from Pakistan? Pakistani? Bit of a mouthful there mate."

chewmylegoff

We had massive storm overnight - with a lot of the thunder which sounds like the sky tearing apart rather than deep bass rumbling. Loads of close lightning strikes and torrential rain as well. At one point I opened a window to see what was going on and immediately got soaked through.

Almost like a Brisbane storm except without the hail!

GDB2222

I'm amazed how apparently easy a SAM system is to operate. If we believe what we are told, a bunch of separatists have 'liberated' some missiles from Russia. Not your shoulder-fired missiles, but major pieces of kit. Well, either these guys are really good at reading the manuals, or the missiles came with a bunch of Russian advisers who know how to operate them.

PasturesNew

Got up the ladder, with the right screwdriver.... unscrewed the four screws on the housing, removed the housing, looked at the lightbulb and thought "Er... not got any of those".... followed quickly by "how the heck do you get that out then?"

Now, if you don't know, then you could be pulling instead of pushing, twisting instead of tugging, pushing bits in that could snap. So I tried gently pulling it downwards.... couldn't spot any way to get it out.

So taken photos of it and I think I need to head for screwfix to show them the photos and say "How do you get that out then? Can I please buy a bulb that fits that...."

mystic_trev

michaels wrote: »

With hindsight 'someone' should probably thought about the wisdom of flying over a war zone where surface to air missiles were being used. As a conspkyracy theorist you would look at the aids specialists on the plane and Russia's intolerance.......

It doesn't quite work like that. I've probably been on flights across Iraq and Afghanistan, on more than a dozen occasions, whilst they were War zones. They're a corridors in the Sky which are deemed to be safe, as was the one in Ukraine, despite what the tabloid media might say!