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Stanley
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New title to cheer us all up!
Seasonal adjustment 'cause Belle said so. All complaints to her!
Title edited for Pluggy. All complaints to him!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk
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Posted - 22/12/2010 : 19:00
Have a look at the results of trying to drive on ice
http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/22122010/36/ford-saloon-trumps-4x4s-icy-hill-0.html
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Posted - 23/12/2010 : 04:46
Weather perfect here.
I have had to wrap the Peach tree in Bird Net as the birds are starting to get a little too interested in the fruit as it ripens. I haven't done a terribly good job of it. It was difficult to balance on my tippy toes on one of our dining chairs....that wretched bird netting has a mind of it's own...but hopefully I will cut down on some of the loss. I distinctly recall eating Peaches from our tree on Christmas Day last year, but this year the fruit is still a few weeks off. Also, last year I had buckets of fruit and very little foliage. This year is the exact opposite. Much less fruit and yet the tree is very shrubby. Haven't done anything different, so must be down to all the extra rain we have had.
Had some EGG NOG last night. We serve it chilled of course, but guess you lot serve it warm?
get your people to phone my people and we will do lunch...MAZ |
Stanley
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Posted - 23/12/2010 : 05:10
Cath and Maz. Send warm weather over here! Getting fed up with the cold, it's very tiring, in bed at 9pm last night and slept like a log. Glass climbs slightly faster up at 29.2" now. The weather is coming from the East like Frank's and I swear it feels slightly warmer this morning. Still a hard frost but not as cold as it has been. CH boiler is running at lower temperature and workshop temperature is rising slowly, it dropped to 45F but is heading back to 50F, the usual temperature. So slight movement in the weather but nothing really significant and it can always throw another bad spell at us.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 23/12/2010 : 09:11
We heard today that Heathrow is thawing out, apparently 70% of customers should be on their way home by now. Quite a few Aussies have arrived home safe and well, many more still to come. And Heathrow is seriously looking at getting some de-icing machines for the runways 
Edited by - Cathy on 23/12/2010 09:13:20 AM
All thru the fields and meadows gay .... Enjoy
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Posted - 24/12/2010 : 07:52
I don't know what gave me the impression it was warmer yesterday! It was bitter but I think because we had a bit of breeze out of the west. Funny that because the high cloud was still moving east! Glass still rising slowly, almost at 29.5" this morning. Not a good sign because to me this looks like very settled weather.
Cathy, there hasn't been any more snow so they are almost coping. Still not 100% service and lots of complaints. I think we shall hear more about this particularly if there is another fall of snow.
Good God! The Pope has just done Thought for the day on R4! Is this the counter-counter-counter Reformation! Very worrying....
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Posted - 24/12/2010 : 10:10
That sort of reminds me about the Photographer who told his friend about coming across a beggar in the street ...."What did you give him "? asked the friend ......Answer...."1/125th at f8 ,of course"
The BBC gave the Pope 2 Minutes 40 seconds (Like everyone else) !
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Posted - 24/12/2010 : 11:23
Brad. the old NUJ setting for Tri-X! Still have some rolls in the fridge.
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Posted - 24/12/2010 : 12:39
"Good God! The Pope has just done Thought for the Day on R4!"
Well at least it meant we didn't get Ann Atkins! Mind you, if he gets any further influence in Britain we might have to unravel the royal family all the way back to Henry VIII and start again. Perhaps we need the next Thought for the Day to be from Simon Schama.
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Posted - 24/12/2010 : 13:21
Na ....Let Frank do it !
( ....only joking , honestly Matron !)
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Posted - 24/12/2010 : 13:43
On a Photographic note ....and I don't know if I've mentioned this before.....but when I had a Camera Shop there was a studio next door but one , and they did everything.....Portraits , Industrial , advertising , the lot ....Including weddings .
The Owner hated having to do weddings , but it was good money....
He used to have a few tricks up his sleave to lighten the boredom....One of which was to take along the most battered camera outfit in the place . There were always amateurs there with shiny new state of the art kit ..... He used to set up the groups , and just as the guests with cameres gathered round him to "steal his shot" , he would pull out of his pocket the piece of paper that came with every roll of film. He would carefully onfold it and ask the assembled crowd whether they though it was "Cloudy but bright " or " Overcast" ! and what exposure they would recommend !!!!
At the same time his assistant , a lady of advancing years , would stand next to the Bride or lurk prominently ,on the edge of the group......She always wore a Bright Red Coat and a purple hat !........There must be hundreds of families around Derby wondering who the Heck invited her (she was on ALL their private snaps)......She Never appeared on my friends offerings to the Happy Couple though , having legged it at a prearranged signal ...only to reappear moments later !
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Edited by - Bradders on 24/12/2010 5:00:41 PM
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Posted - 24/12/2010 : 14:31
Just had a ride over Pendleside it all looked like a Christmas card, but the poor sheep and horses in the fields, don't think they are enjoying it one bit.
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Stanley
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Posted - 24/12/2010 : 16:44
Moh, better off than in wind and cold rain. Most will be being looked after OK. Don't worry too much about them.
Brad I once did a relations wedding with a Nikon that had just been overhauled by t top repairer. A bloke came to me afterwards and said he was most impressed by the double flash! You've guessed it, the synch was all to cock. I Gathered them all together inside and did a group pic. That was the only one that was anywhere near a decemt exposure! Never again.....
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Posted - 24/12/2010 : 16:56
Dead Right Stanley .....not something I would take on again....(Did one in the South of France for a relative , and got away with it just - very difficult dazzling light and very windy - until the processing was done , I didn't sleep ....as you say Never again ! )
All The Very Best to you !
Bradders
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Posted - 24/12/2010 : 21:41
What have I done. I get an email everytime some one writes on this forum, but I can't see what I have selected to cause this
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Posted - 24/12/2010 : 21:44
Today we went to Hollingworth lake and walked round it. It was beauriful, and the lake was all iced over which I have never seen before, and we have lived in Rochdale for 38 years
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