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Well, that was one hell of a weekend. :o :lol: It all started Friday evening - people arriving in cars, planes and trains to be put up in various people's houses/B&Bs/Apartments (the posh folk!). And we were off. A quietish night out Friday til 1am (normal closing)... Had to wait up for a car load from Manchester; who didn't arrive until 3am and then insisted on heading into town for kebabs. Sigh. Up Midday Sat - and to the pub for the darts championship of the year. Absolutely fantastic. The Guiness up here now is from St James' Gate, Dublin - none of the Park Royal, London rubbish anymore - and by golly it just slips downt the throat like well-oiled milk. Nipped out of said pub at about 6pm to get food then PARTY!! Ended up with about 170 people there we reckon - bar took £3400 - so no problems (hopefully) about getting the deposit back. Although there were a couple of incidents with the silly manager ont he night not knowing what was going on and an over-zealous bouncer (at a private party - who asked for him?!) throwing some punks out cos they had they audacity to be too drunk. :o Got in at 5am - and then partied in the house til about 9. Spent yesterday in bed. Except for ordering a curry. I am slowly remembering how to speak. Don't think I'm going to go drinking again. :o

That's amazing I for Irene (only the 8th of the season!). I'm popping this into Historic Weather. :huh:

Moving this to the media section - to go alongside all the other silly news stories :huh:

Tut tut. You'd never catch me doing anything like that... Tut tut *shakes head*

Moved bedroom due to him snoring?! TWICE?! You are a saint Becka

7C/5C E'ly 9mph Light drizzle. Urghhhhhhh.

Not to mention the privatisation of road maintenance. There have already been instances up here of A Trunk Roads not being properly treated - and crazy examples of the inherent inefficiencies of councils still retaining responsibility for side roads - which have to be accessed off the main roads - which they won't grit themselves. Etc etc etc...

There's a private members Bill going through the Holyrood Parliament at the moment to do exactly that. And it looks likely to become law. LINK

Yes - the snow in Norway is now showing up - but obviously, that is not a marginal event. The discussions on here have focussed on how the beeb will handle marginal set-ups such as hill-only snow and cold air/mild air battles. Especially since these are much more likely than anything else in the modern winter...

Well, our earlier questions are beginning to be answered - and it isn't looking terribly good. Today and tomorrow is the first proper borderline wintry event in Scotland. Snow above 600m; so what do the BBC graphics show? Rain. Yes, a comment from the forecaster - but no supporting graphic. Now, since the geography of the UK doesn't change much day-to-day, how hard can it be to 'ring fence' the mountains over certain heights - and then when ppn falls in these areas, show the correct graphic? Only one more test now - and that's mild wet weather moving into cold air and turning to snow either on its leading or trailing edge. I'm not holding my breath however.

Well done you! Congrats to you you both Having attended six full-on weddings this summer, and spent upwards of £1k in the doing, what a breath of fresh air. Mrs Roo eh? He he.

News24 is live in Cancoon (sp?) in the next hour. The swell out to sea looks impressive.

Does anyone fancy a nice new shiny thread to herald the start of the new day in the Gulf?!

A nice shiny new thread for the weekend :blink:

Hello MC It's referring to this story.

1002mb falling 7mph E'ly 13/12C Grey and overcast. Drizzle after heavier rain this morning.

Anyone got an image/link of the latest predicted track of the storm?

:lol: Fire away!

I'll do it then. Might even give it a quirky name - you never know! Standby. :lol:

13/8C 15mph E'ly Dull and gloomy - except for small pockets of hazy blue sky.

Is it just me, or are the -ve anomalies to our north getting colder and therefore a lovely deeper blue colour?

Yep - they're excellent. And good news it's mushie season!!

11C/7C 5mph NW'ly 1023mb Bright and sunny - what a difference a day makes!

Temp 9C DP 8C ENE 8mph. Not stopped raining for nearly 36 hrs now. Urghhhh.

The Times, despite many people's opinions on its ownership is a newspaper within the UK media circus - so this is being moved to our very own media circus too.