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5 hours ago, Stormeh said:
I am thinking of doing the North Coast 500 this summer with the family. I would like to hire a motorhome that sleeps 6 but not sure if a motorhome is suitable for the roads up there? Has anyone done this? Thanks for any help!
alright stormeh.
Used to live further along the braes fae you in foxbar. Know borrheid very well.
Anyhow to part answer yer question No done the north coast but my cousin did it in a four berth motorhome last year. Im no a motorhome owner and never have been , im a caravaner , we currently tow a lunar quasar four berth. If the motorhomes are similar to caravans , dont think there is that great a difference between many four and six berths regarding towing and manouvering in my experience , and it was no problem for my cousin in her motorhome.
Just dae yer research , good quality sat nav especially one for caravans/motorhomes can help but ur no 100 % foolproof , pick yer route and where ye want to stay etc.
Been towing vans for 14 years something like that , if you have driven large vehicles then all that experience helps. enjoy pal!
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1 hour ago, Blitzen said:
Gone off now but a good 4" here.
Dog just loves it! Can't even drag him out if it's raining but won't come in when it's snowing!
Lovely wee dug blitzen!
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1 hour ago, CatchMyDrift said:
A couple of inches here, it's wet old snow which is freezing up very quickly. The roads are incredibly slippy.
Good pictures catch.
Bet you wish you never left civilisation in Paisley
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12 minutes ago, snowidea said:
We usually head off to the red Squirrel campsite in Glencoe for new years day (we avoid new years eve in case it's too noisy for the kids) but thinking of giving it a miss this year as our van's very basic (and bijou) so doesn't have any heating. Still there's always a campfire and all huddle together to keep warm. Enjoy your trip.
No been to that site snowidea , sounds good.
Was meant to be going away in our van but had to cancel as we have all had the flu.
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1 hour ago, tiff said:
Going away for New Year in the campervan- where would be a good bet to see snow, but not TOO far away from civilisation? Was thinking North Wales but open to suggestions..
Why dont you have a look on the uk campsite forum
click on the map for the area you want to go to and then refine the search to suit your needs.
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On 9/9/2016 at 15:28, stainesbloke said:
Have just bought my first decent tent and would like to go camping frequently with my OH and friends/family from Spring 2017 both here in the UK and in Europe.
The tent is a Vango Capri 500XL, it gives a nice living space which is what I wanted and apparently only takes 15 minutes to pitch...we will see!
Does anyone have recommended or favourite camping products/brands and sites? Will probably start with somewhere in the New Forest next year but I'd love to hear about any other decent places that offer things to do in the local area.
Used to camp many years ago when growing up and loved it, now I camp mainly at festivals and would like to make many more trips, either weekends or longer. Any advice/tips gratefully received.
p.s recommend the french sites when going abroad .
http://www.camping-leragis.com/en/
this one here is a gem , went there a few years back near the town of challans in western france.
best of luck with the camping!
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Hi stainesbloke.
im a caravaner who has progressed from camping , been caravanning now for over 12 years.
Best advice i could give you is this:
gives you all the best sites in your area or wherever you want to go and reviews , plus discussions on latest tents caravans and camping gear etc.
I have been a member of the site for years and found it good for picking out decent sites plus help and advice.
hope that helps mate.
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Hi spike collie nearest town to us is fontenay le Comte , we had 30 c yesterday , today it cooled to a more reasonable 23 c.In Limousin, we had 36c yesterday. I'm in Poitiers right now, in full pre job-meeting clothes and I'm baking, it's 30c. Other half reports rain showers in Haute Vienne this morning, but no storms yet and the sun is now out. Tonight/this evening I think they'll come.
Cannot believe the heat at night , has barely been below 18 20 c for over a week now.
Had a small shower and a rumble of thunder last night but not much.
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. Odds on for a blizzard on Boxing Day when we have to drive down to Glasgow for our flight to France early on 27th.
Thank Christ ye wurnae flyin the day Ravelin.
Glesga airports been shut the past 8 hours due tae a suspicous car being found.
Apparently it had tax insurance and the radio wis still in it
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Amazing how ignorant one can be when your in town and sleep till afternoon for the past two weeks. I barely see much daylight now when in Stirling so you lost track of the weather.
aye , ah know the feeling saltire. Had a lay in the last few days.
My neighbour chapped on ma door at half two this morning.
Can you believe it! half two!
lucky fur him I wis still up playing ma bagpipes
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Between the 26th-30th December, 1906 heavy snow hit much of Scotland and there was widespread snow elsewhere across Britain. Severe transport dislocation across northern Scotland (Aberdeen and other centres isolated for at least 3 days), and snow disruption elsewhere over Britain. The following is an account of the storm in two parts concentrating on the Scottish Highlands.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1477-8696.1998.tb06357.x/pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1477-8696.1999.tb06414.x/pdf
cheers knocker.
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Rural Ireland in the 1730s still bore the scars of the revolutionary social changes of the previous century. Control over its productive sources, its grassland, woodland and rivers, was concentrated in relatively few hands, and they operated in a comparatively unregulated environment. Compared to the situation in neighbouring jurisdictions, little protected the poor or the marginalised from the actions of the powerful, be they be big Catholic tenant farmers or ‘improving’ Protestant Landlords.
By the end of the 1730s signs of economic development were most evident in parts of Ulster and in the port cities of the south, conduits for the pastoral exports being shipped out to Europe and the Atlantic. The decade itself had been untypically mild and harvests generally good. But the economy was sluggish, with weak international prices. The return of maritime war in October 1739 (initially between Britain and Spain) depressed economic sentiment even further.
And then along came disaster with the coldest winter in half a millennium. The Great Frost of 1739-40 affected much of northern Europe, beginning after Christmas with a week of extraordinary Siberian winds; exceptional low temperatures lasted for over six long weeks in Ireland and longer elsewhere. Without an accurate temperature record we can only speculate as to the exact temperature in the country but this was unambiguously the coldest event in anyone’s memory. Coming after a run of soft winters it caught people quite off-guard. The inland lakes of Ireland ice up two or three times a century, the tidal estuaries less often, but in those weeks in 1740 every waterway froze. Mill-wheels were completely halted, fuel where it could be extracted ran low, and employment came to a standstill. But the most sinister aspect of the frost was the impact it had on the food supplies and the livelihood of rural famies. The main winter foodstuff of most country people, the potato was destroyed within days; stored in the ground where it had been cultivated. In addition, there was huge loss of livestock. Cattle, horses and sheep were always wintered in the open; in many areas they were decimated during the frost, with even greater mortality occurring during the spring as fodder supplies became exhausted.
The frost lifted in early February but the abnormal weather had another another eighteen months to run; a dry spring became became a cold summer drought. The drought was really only broken in the autumn – by storms and blizzards, then floods I December. A second maverick winter followed with excepeptional snowfalls. The spring of 1741 was also very dry, followed by a blazing summer. Normality of sorts only returned in the autumn.
It is estimated that 38% of the Irish population died during the crisis.
The period 1740–1743 has been shown to be the driest period of the last 280 years, with the year 1740 the coldest recorded over the British Isles since comparable records began in 1659. The winter atmospheric circulation over the period 1739– 1744 was very unusual. The major features of the ‘normal’ pressure maps, i.e. the Iceland Low and the Azores High, were much weaker. The dominant feature was a continental or Scandinavian High. Its exact position determined the relative coldness of each winter and led to a sequence of dry winters. The circulation was less anomalous during the Julys of the period with most having near normal temperatures and rainfall totals.
The year 1740 is all the more remarkable given the anomalous warmth of the 1730s. This decade was the warmest in three of the long temperature series (CET, De Bilt and Uppsala) until the 1990s occurred. The mildness of the decade is confirmed by the early ice break-up dates for Lake Malaren and Tallinn Harbour. The rapid warming in the CET record from the 1690s to the 1730s and then the extreme cold year of 1740 are examples of the magnitude of natural changes which can potentially be recorded in long series. Consideration of variability in these records from the early 19th century, therefore, may underestimate the range that is possible.
The paper:
UNUSUAL CLIMATE IN NORTHWEST EUROPE DURING THE
PERIOD 1730 TO 1745 BASED ON INSTRUMENTAL AND
DOCUMENTARY DATA
P. D. JONES and K. R. BRIFFA
Sources
Atlas of the Great Irish Famine. Cork University Press. 2012.
UNUSUAL CLIMATE IN NORTHWEST EUROPE DURING THE
PERIOD 1730 TO 1745 BASED ON INSTRUMENTAL AND
DOCUMENTARY DATA
P. D. JONES and K. R. BRIFFA
Thankyou knocker tapadh leibh.
Extremely interesting , fascinating how the climate may/has affected many of the great incidents of history throughout the world .
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a very big thanks to you BFTV. Some great links for a beginner like me.
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Some good links in here knocker. Find the climate change debate an extremely interesting subject , although i have much to learn.
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Sorry , just had tae post this.
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I'm sure other people have warned you but stay away from the Port wummin
This is neither the time nor the place for jokes about females from Port Glasgow, just stay away from them Dunno catchmydrift..... i like port wummin.
was once in the port glesga area and got 2 crates o tennents for the price o one fae a local off licence.
Put the crates in the front seat and went to regent street in greenock for some diesel before heading home.
Gorgeous wee blond was fillin up next to me , leaned in ma passenger windae , eyein up ma two crates and said" fancy a wee bit o barterin handsome? fancy tradin sex for beer???"
gied it a wee bit o thought for a second and said " aye hen. what kin o beer have ye got?"
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This is neither the time nor the place for jokes about females from Port Glasgow, just stay away from them 
Scotland/Alba Regional Weather Discussion - 16/01/2018 Onwards
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cheers fur that ruzzi. looks brilliant.