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BBC news tonight says Wales is having floods. Maverick, keep your head above water!
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Although we are not in any kind of crisis situation here in Seed-knee, a colleague of mine wrote this in our little "daily news" based on the kind of weather we're experiencing today and I found it quite amusing. Need some gumboots before I go home ... "Wet? We saw a Japanese trawler long-lining for tuna on Suspect St (street on which my office is located - it's actually called Sussex St but our work email server doesn't like the last three letters of our street name, and rejects it on every possible occasion) this morning, and during the lunchtime downpour there were waterskiers a bit further down the road. At least that is what they looked like, the visibility was not the best at the time."
All in good humour but on a serious note, trust that Bingley and Maverick are both safe and sound .
Hev
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thanks Max. But hey, my li'l jalopy's the roadster, just off frame left on that pic, more visible in one of the others. I hear from colleagues today that part of the bridge in one of the pics is actually washed away or damaged quite seriously. That's what you get with this jerry-built rubbish - thrown up in the middle ages then never repaired...
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That's what you get with this jerry-built rubbish - thrown up in the middle ages then never repaired...Yeah, and the French aren't much better. Bring in a top Italian firm to put a good viaduct up in Arles in AD100 and look, nearly 2000 years later it's just junk. Some people just can't keep their eye on the ball for more than five minutes, can they?
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Someone else needs a boatI have no boat to offer, but I do understand there's a goat (slightly used) available in Humberside.
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Isn't it just like the young generation to be blaming the preceeding generation for its problems. "my 1000 yr old bridge has washed away, my 2000 yr old viaducts don't via anymore" Whine, whine whine. Edited for fear of shunned one getting my address
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my 2000 yr old viaducts don't via anymore" Whine, whine whine.
Well, I should be careful what of I whine. I meant aquaduct, actually. Water, water, everywhere did cause the stones to shrink.
Bloody cheap outfit, the Roman army. Couldn't even go good solid granite. Oh hang on, yes they could. Well, then it's the French's fault as I said in the past post (and no, Bill, it's neither a starting nor a finishing post, and you don't have to pip me at it).
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"But if you're looking long term, we know that with climate change we're going to get long periods of rain, very heavy intensive rain fall. "We're dealing with this difficult phenomenon of heavy rain on top of saturated soil, and that's going to make a country like Wales more vulnerable in all sorts of places. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid_1801000/1801696.stmMr Bush, repeat after me: “Climate change *does matter –we all live in one world. Climate change *does matter….”
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I did not see Mr. Bush referenced earlier, or in the link. How did he get into this thread?
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