BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?

Subject: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: Will Fly
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 09:48 AM

It's 25C down here in Sussex today - and the Met Office forecast for the next few days is:

Friday - 23
Saturday - 27
Sunday - 24
Monday - 21

For April in England, that's pretty warm! Same where you are?

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 11:51 AM

Gorgeous here in North Kent.

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 12:21 PM

My plants aren't happy Easter bunnies..They're all going "Phew! TOO HOT!" at the moment...And of course, the heating is on FULL on the buses..This is due to health and safety, because the switch is now in the back of all buses, in the engines, so drivers aren't allowed to touch anything in that area.

What happens is the drivers get chilly first thing in the morning, so rather than put a woollie on, they get the engineer to put the heating on. Then, when they get back to the bus station, after their first round trip, they ask the engineer to turn the heating off...Just one problem though, there's never an engineer around when they get back to the bus station...so...the heating stays on ALL day long. This goes on throughout the entire summer...

And if you want to know how I know, I got off the bus one day very hot and very bothered, after a summer's journey into Exeter. People were practically expiring because of the heat...I went totally nuts in the bus station main office...and finally I found out WHY the passengers have to put up with it all. They promised they'd do something about it, but it's the same every single year.

Hey, bus drivers, put your Cardigans on in the morning and leave the heaters OFF.

I'm off to cool off now, having just had a very warm journey back from town.... :0) <

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 12:23 PM

Too hot for me to handle.

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 12:45 PM

Snow here in Moncton, NB, Canada an hour ago. Now's it mixed. My right knee is VERY upset.

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: Will Fly
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 01:02 PM

Gnu - just nip over here - spare bed in the music room... facing south... several guitars, keyboard, mandolin, acoustic bass, blues harps, large teddy bear... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: GUEST,Ralphie
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 01:05 PM

It's been really pleasant here, north of London... Haven't had to go on a bus, so, have no opinion on relative temperatures... But, as i say, a very nice day, sitting in the garden with cats. Even played a few tunes!

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 01:33 PM

In London the traditional excuse is that they use the heater as a radiator and if the heating was switched off the bus would overheat.

I've been for a nice 2 hour walk in the sun today. It's a bit cooler now and I'm going for a 45 minute walk to my session.

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 01:39 PM

Cor blimey guv'! what a scorcher!   I do 'ope that Jack the Ripper won't art tonite!

Don't worry my man, we're perfectly safe now. sir hector Maltravers has stationed a kindly but unimaginative metropolitan policeman on every street corner looking out for swarthy foreigners and other undesirables. the Ripper won't dare show up tonite.......

(stop me if you've heard this one!)

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 02:12 PM

Just got back from Kerala, South India. What's all the fuss about?

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 02:41 PM

Lovely and hot. I've tootled about in Senegal (dry heat) and Ghana (high humidity) in 40'C, perfectly contented. I can stand any amount of heat, it's the cold that shrivels me up!

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: Will Fly
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 03:11 PM

No fuss, Les - loving it! You expect heat in Kerala in April - not necessarily so in Sussex... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 03:25 PM

Will... no can do the the most due to that prick Art Rightus, but I appreciate the offer.

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 05:01 PM

My lawn is cracking open.. :0(

The cats say it's too hot to sit on the outside staircase, because their bottoms frizzle..and Tigger says he won't even go out there unless his eiderdown is down on the step and he has a curtain over the staircase to shield him from the heat...I kid you not, he won't go out as he gets too hot! He's spent all today sitting inside the porch, in the shade..

And the birds are emptying their water bowl faster than I can fill it up. My mimosa tree has all but given up the ghost, nearly killed off by the icy weather and snow..and now desperate for water...She's dying by the branch, day by day...sob!   I've planted a new one, in the hope it'll grow up and mingle amongst the dead branches. I can't get the tree cut down (it's around 30foot high I'd say) because the birds sit in it all the time, and the squirrels wouldn't be able to run around the garden via all the trees, as they do now...

Wonky Weather! :0(

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 05:24 PM

Would love to get some of that warmth here. Ground covered with snow. The weatherman promises some 10 degrees at the end of the week, a touch better but coats still needed. (Calgary, Canada)

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: gnomad
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 06:10 PM

Half a mile inland it's lovely, but just on the edge of the North Sea it is much cooler as the fog keeps rolling in.
We had to work with extra lookouts for some of yesterday (15- to 20-foot wooden fishing boats barely show on radar, and their nets not at all) then give it up because even English tourists are not very keen on looking at the inside of a fog bank for 25 minutes.
Not to worry, the fog means the water is beginning to warm up, and the salmon are starting to arrive, so it isn't all bad news.

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 06:14 PM

25.2C in Bude this afternoon. Phew, wotta scortcha!

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 06:54 PM

Texas has already seen several days in the 90s. 80 ("27") sounds quite pleasant!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email)
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 06:55 PM

Great to see it, I'm just back from Spain and Portugal and the rain came down like stair rods.

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 08:14 PM

Cor! Lummee Guvnor! theres a right peasouper comin' in orf the river! A ghostly sort of night! Its the sort of night when the Phantom Rasperry Blower of Olde London Town is abroad and amongst us.......

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 08:26 PM

""It's hot enough to boil a monkey's bum in here, your Majesty,"" he said.

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 09:05 PM

Boil his bum, by all means. But you could be cutting short a promising showbiz career. No use expecting him to dance on a barrel organ, after you've been tieing the monkey with his bum over the slow cooker.

(Old Surrealist Proverb)

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: Penny S.
Date: 22 Apr 11 - 08:38 AM

I don't function well at these temperatures, but what is really irritating me is that I can't get digital TV on the ITV multiplex because of interference from the Lille transmitter in France, as Bluebell Hill isn't at full strength yet, and I can't use the ITV Player online because of some unspecified internet connection failing that they can't be bothered to explain. The first is due to the stationary high pressure system and the position of the reflective ozone layer in the atmosphere.

Out to fill up the bird bath and plant my potatoes in the traditional manner.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: Max Johnson
Date: 22 Apr 11 - 10:20 AM

Just been for a walk along the cliffs with the dogs. Apart from being frequently mown down by screaming families on mountain bikes, it was very pleasant. Very hazy out to sea though, in spite of the breeze. I've got a couple of fresh Dover Soles to cook this evening, but I won't be barbecueing them!

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: bubblyrat
Date: 22 Apr 11 - 02:03 PM

Very hot , indeed Scorchio , here in sunny Oxted , and I definitely didn't need a vitamin D tablet today ( I still took one, though !).
             I , too , had a nasty experience on the 'bus from Henley to Reading on the way here 2 days ago ; it was very hot, but the heating was ON full blast ! I complained , but the driver said he could not turn it off !! Apparently , the cranky old 'buses that "Arriva" use on the High Wycombe --Reading run have to dump heat via the heating system, or the engines seize up ! How the fuck did we ever win the war ??

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: MikeL2
Date: 22 Apr 11 - 02:24 PM

hi Lizzie

I don't use the buses very often but we don't appear to have your bus heater problem. My wife used the bus yesterday and she said that the bus had air-conditioning switched on !!

Here in leafy Cheshire we went for a long walk today - weather glorious - needed sunhat though - but not too hot with a nice cooling breeze.

Right now ( Friday 19.20 ) it is rumbling with thunder and just a few spots of rain. Nothing much yet.

Plants crying out for rain....maybe they will be answered tonight ????!!!

Off to Old Trafford tomorrow hope it doesn't rain on Man United's parade.

All the best for Easter.

Regards

MikeL2

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 22 Apr 11 - 02:46 PM

Gnu - I know from experience that it ain't Art Rightus. It's Art Wrongs Us.

Warm as it is, he is kicking my ass too. Well actually stomping on my hips, feet and hands.

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: MikeL2
Date: 23 Apr 11 - 04:31 AM

Hi

After my last night's report of thunder rumbling in the distance we did get a couple of heavy storms. This morning the garden looks refreshed and clean.

Oh and we haven't had any signs of smog here !!!

Cheers

Mikel2

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 23 Apr 11 - 06:04 AM

Hi, Mike....gosh, you have AIR CONDITIONING on your buses????? UNHEARD of down here. In Torbay we get all the old cast-offs from Exeter...but even in Exeter the buses don't have air-conditioning, although I've heard they're getting some brand new ones in shortly. We of course, will merely get the newer cast-offs from Exeter down here in The Bay.

Another beautiful day here. Birds singing, cats sunbathing...and fence finally painted! Hurray!!!! :0)

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: The Barden of England
Date: 24 Apr 11 - 04:38 AM

Still glorious here in Mid-Kent. Heard thunder to the west of us yesterday, but nothing came our way. Everything in our garden has to be able to suffer drought as we had 5 continuous years of watering bans up until a couple of years ago. We had plenty of snow over the winter though.
John Barden

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: MikeL2
Date: 24 Apr 11 - 07:09 AM

hi Lizzie

I was not trying to give the impression that all our buses have air-conditioning. We do have some older ones here too that don't. Mind you I don't think we got ours from Exeter ....lol

Cloudy and cooler here. Dry at the moment. It won't rain though, my younger son has decided to have a barbecue.....he he he...!!

Mind you he is usually lucky with the weather. On holidays he always seems to hit the good stuff.

We are hoping for fine weather tomorrow and are planning an all day trek
in North Wales.

Regards

MikeL2

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 24 Apr 11 - 04:21 PM

Hope you have a lovely time, Mike..Take care. :0)

Subject: RE: BS: Hot enough for you in the UK this week?
From: MikeL2
Date: 25 Apr 11 - 11:21 AM

Hi Lizzie

Thanks for the comments. Yes my son's influence on the weather worked.....lovely evening of warm sunshine. Good time was had by all. hic....

Regards

Mike