BS: St. Swithins day - 15 July

Subject: BS: St Swithins day
From: The Sandman
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 03:14 AM

If it rains today, we will have 40 days and 40 nights rain.
An interesting legend, does anyone have any idea how accurate this is?

Subject: RE: BS: St Swithins day
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 03:44 AM

Wonderful thing, that ‘Google’....

Subject: RE: BS: St Swithins day
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 04:37 AM

Well it's never rained for forty consecutive days from July 15 in England, but there's some teensy smidgeon of truth in that weather patterns for the rest of the summer can settle down somewhat about now. It won't rain in Cornwall today so I'm dusting down the ould barbie and indulging in mass burger-making...

Subject: RE: BS: St. Swithins day - 15 July
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 04:46 AM

Cool overcast, and showery here in the Scottish highlands. Then again, that's not unusual, even for July.

Subject: RE: BS: St. Swithins day - 15 July
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 06:46 AM

Yup it will rain now for forty years, feck.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: St. Swithins day - 15 July
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 08:31 AM

40 days and nights...you know what you must do: "And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits."

Subject: RE: BS: St. Swithins day - 15 July
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 12:00 PM

Yes indeed - from 8mins 40secs!

Subject: RE: BS: St. Swithins day - 15 July
From: mg
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 06:31 PM

we few, we proud, we band of brothers (sisters)

Subject: RE: BS: St. Swithins day - 15 July
From: The Sandman
Date: 15 Jul 20 - 10:53 PM

no rain in west cork ,remrkable

Subject: RE: BS: St. Swithins day - 15 July
From: Mr Red
Date: 16 Jul 20 - 04:17 AM

spotting in Gloucestershire.

See you on 2020/8/24

On the plus side, wouldn't the rain wash a lot of COVID covered surfaces? Not kill, but descend.

On a pedantic note: kill may not be biologically accurate but nobody complains when the slogan is kill your speed which is an invocation to reduce not eliminate. So why do we trouble with the word in the COVID context when the attempt is to reduce to zero?

Idiomatic language?

Subject: RE: BS: St. Swithins day - 15 July
From: robomatic
Date: 17 Jul 20 - 04:27 PM

I was all set to donate blood on Bastille Day, but due to a miscalculation I was not at liberty to, so donated Wednesday the 15th. Now I have a 'Day' to remember it by. Much Thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: St. Swithins day - 15 July
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 17 Jul 20 - 07:10 PM

I always get it mixed up with St Crispin's Day, when Henry V 's archers gave the frogs a good biffing!!!

Subject: RE: BS: St. Swithins day - 15 July
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Jul 20 - 02:11 AM

Henry V 's archers gave the frogs a good biffing!!!

Zute alors. Pas si vous écoutez le récit au musée d'Agincourt. Ou des cours d'histoire pour enfants. Le rosbif s'en est dégraissé. Flèches? Quelles flèches?

L'histoire est écrite .par les gagnants éventuels.

Deux jours secs à Rouge Towers. Vieilles histoires d'épouses? Pah!

Subject: RE: BS: St. Swithins day - 15 July
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 18 Jul 20 - 07:50 PM

Sounds like a good switch of dates, robomatic: you wouldn't want to be donating blood from your carotid arteries, now would you?

The 15th was fairly non-descript here: mainly cloudy as far as I remember: better since.

Subject: RE: BS: St. Swithins day - 15 July
From: robomatic
Date: 18 Jul 20 - 08:43 PM

Tattie Bogle, LOL. I've always been choosy about which veins get mined. And none 'opened' certainly. I'd rather give it to the needy hominids than the state bird (mosquito).