Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Don't really care

Just wondering because you only quoted as ....

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Just wondering because you only quoted as ....

I do that, it reduces unnecessary page clutter where it's not required.
Nothing in your post was required.

vivatifosi

Checking in to make sure that you are ok Pastures. Did you manage to get some sleep?

PasturesNew

Luckily I appear to have nodded off and the wind swung round. I woke up a lot times through the night and could intermittently hear wind and not hear wind. I could've been woken by noises outside, but I didn't know at the time.

This morning though ... something's clearly gone on out there - all my stuff on the ground is askew and miscellaneous items are 20' from where they started out. Gate held, fence held, can't see anything missing from the roof (although you can't really see). But the ground level shows there were clearly a lot of whirlwinds going on. Grass is all flattened down and in various patterns.

Demo roof is intact.... although plastic and felting are flapping a lot.

Off to check the Local Online News now.

Swanage in trouble - this is where my ancestors came from: Seawall down, High Street flooded. Keep away.
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/14916458.Sea_wall_destroyed_and_high_street_flooded__public_warned_to_keep_away_from_seafront/

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Luckily I appear to have nodded off and the wind swung round. I woke up a lot times through the night and could intermittently hear wind and not hear wind. I could've been woken by noises outside, but I didn't know at the time.

I remember '87. My bedroom was at the front of the house and I hardly got any sleep for all the dustbins (the proper metal ones) flying up and down the road.

When I went to work, the bus had to take several diversions to avoid fallen trees and when we got round the back of the docks one lane of the dual carriageway was closed because all the shipping containers on the top of stacks beside the road had shifted at least two stacks across - with the inevitable result for those at the end of the stacks - mega dominoes

Dad had put a simple roof up between the garden shed and the back fence, just a timber frame and some plastic sheets, as a place to keep the pushbikes - we never did find where that roof went

PasturesNew

I love that they name storms now. It's the difference between knowing "it's a bit windy/wet" and that there's "a proper storm" - it also helps to track when it's coming and when it's past, as well as how many such storms we've had in any time period.

Before it was just lots of weather saying there was wind/wet or not. Now it's easier to understand stop/start of actual storms and when to read news or not. You can now tell if it's coming/been where you are or if it's somewhere else.

PasturesNew

Doing the wikipedia+TV = fun thing ....

Yesterday channel doing some history thing about Cromwell. So then I wondered if there are any living descendants of him.

It appears his tree has been extensively researched and if yours goes back to 1860 you can look through and see if you're related.

"James Waylen produced The House of Cromwell and the Story of Dunkirk; first published in 1880, it quickly went through several editions, including an 1897-8 edition edited by John Gabriel Cromwell. Waylen provides what is generally accepted to be the fullest and most accurate account of Cromwell’s direct descendants. He took the surviving lines down to his own day and the account is more or less comprehensive down to the 1860s or a little beyond; in some of the later editions, a few additional births, marriages and deaths which had occurred during the 1870s and 1880s are noted. "
Source: http://www.olivercromwell.org/genealogy/heredis/info.htm

Off to find that now... somebody will have put it online no doubt.

Ah, here it is, as a PDF: http://www.olivercromwell.org/genealogy/heredis/list.pdf

SingleSue

Josh has been in London for the weekend for a concert, he travelled to Euston fine, got a cab to the hotel and has been travelling around with friends since.

He has just got back to Euston station after travelling from the hotel with his friends and has been hit with a panic attack. No idea what has brought it on, although he is not the most confident of travellers (he gets a taxi rather than the tube as he finds it so difficult to understand - he travelled on the tube back to Euston station this time though as he had his friends with him) and this is the easiest part of his journey as it goes directly to Northampton with no changes.

He has settled a little now and is just waiting for his platform number to come up, albeit rather shakily.

Edit - He is now on the train back to Northampton and feeling a lot more settled....phew!

Pyxis

SingleSue wrote: »

Josh has been in London for the weekend for a concert, he travelled to Euston fine, got a cab to the hotel and has been travelling around with friends since.

He has just got back to Euston station after travelling from the hotel with his friends and has been hit with a panic attack. No idea what has brought it on, although he is not the most confident of travellers (he gets a taxi rather than the tube as he finds it so difficult to understand - he travelled on the tube back to Euston station this time though as he had his friends with him) and this is the easiest part of his journey as it goes directly to Northampton with no changes.

He has settled a little now and is just waiting for his platform number to come up, albeit rather shakily.

Edit - He is now on the train back to Northampton and feeling a lot more settled....phew!

Oh dear, Sue! How worrying for you!
It's awful, isn't it, when you're miles away and they ring you in some degree of distress and there's b all you can do from where you are, except calmy give lots of soothing reassurance, while internally you are having heeby-jeebies!

Big hugs when he gets home for having achieved it! :T

LydiaJ

Pyxis wrote: »

Oh dear, Sue! How worrying for you!
It's awful, isn't it, when you're miles away and they ring you in some degree of distress and there's b all you can do from where you are, except calmy give lots of soothing reassurance, while internally you are having heeby-jeebies!

Big hugs when he gets home for having achieved it! :T

Big hugs from me too. Glad he's OK.