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  1. Be honest with you, thought it was thunder but can't be absolutely certain as we are upstairs on a mezzanine, certainly was chucking it down at the time. The story I was / am thinking about, is a combination of a story my dad wrote on his life, perhaps bulking out his exploits in the Second World War, and somehow combing it with my rather boring life story (compared to his anyway). But unfortunately that will have to wait until I get some time, think that will be in my retirement.Dry but cloudy in dirty Dartford, look like we had dome heavy showers today.
  2. Had a couple of claps of thunder here in 'Orrible 'Arlow about an hour ago, now either raining extremely heavily, or we need more insulation in on our tin roof :-)
  3. Morning all,hope everyone is well. The rain has passed and its looks fairly dry out, sky looks clear and a very dark blacky blue, with just a touch of lightness creeping in. Off to work today, with a horrendous amount of work to be undertaken, which I suppose is good as it will all help to the expense I am now committed to, after the europhoria comes the reality :-) Have a great day.
  4. I sure you are all on tender hooks wondering about how we got on today, Leeds castle was dressed for the wedding fair, and well organised, entrance was via a private entrance to a special car park, and transport was laid on from there to the castle. Tea and coffee with minor refreshment was laid on. We went to the Maiden's Tower first, don't know what you can say other than for us and our families the setting and arrangement where perfect, we will only be around 70 for the breakfast but around 15 of those will be under 9. The Maiden's Tower, has a fully walled private garden, which we will use for kids to play, apparently they will lay out large games for the kids. The ceremony takes place in a nice room overlooking the moat, and then you move into a dinning room to have the breakfast, moving back to the ceremonial room for the knees up and the evening hog roast. Above this are 5 bedrooms which come "free" with the wedding package. So very impressed with the whole layout of the Maiden's Tower, that when we went at looked at the castle we where actually disappointed, it's was to Rampling and the kids would get lost going between the rooms which all where great but scattered around the castle. Short chat, dates agreed and we are now going to our sons wedding in Leeds castle, funny enough feeling extremely proud, and very pleased that his and his future wife's dream wedding will be a reality, some compromises had to be made but that was only,the wedding will take place on a Thursday instead of there preferred day of Saturday, but that compromised allowed their dream to be fulfilled. A proud set mums and dads, just go to show that I'm an old softy at heart. Have a great night. Blow it forgot in my excitement, the first rule of posting on netweather, the weather, its raining.
  5. Chilly Milly, I don't think you would want to see me dressed up in my tutu :-). Sorry about all the spelling etc mistakes above, I blame the wine last night.
  6. Morning all,, looks a nice, clear and sunny morning here in dirty Dartford. Today's the day of the great Leeds Castle wedding fair, just wonder how much this visit is going to cost me :-). The loving couple came round to visit us yesterday, and my cunning plan of suggesting a midweek wedding, was considered at least for 10 seconds before being rejected, it would have saved so much money. Her indoors told me not to be such a tight so and so, oh well, I'm sure it must be a common site to see father of the bride crying at these sort of events, mind you I'm the farther of the groom, I wonder if you can throw yourself of the parapet into the mote :-). Oh and it appear she the future bride, has changed her mind and fancies the main castle for the wedding, and reception. Help....... At least it seems it might be a nice day to find out you are going to be bankrupt. In all seriousness they are a lovely couple and they deserve a good wedding day, they like all youngsters struggled to get their foot on the property ladder, and he's trying so hard to make a go of his oven cleaning business. I'm led to believe its always been her dream to have a fairy tale wedding, well that's hope that we can make her dreams come true. Have a great day, shame I won't.
  7. Morning all, hope everyone feeling well, looks like its a nice morning out there, seems dry. Shopping and a business meeting today, with the build up to the great wedding fair tomorrow. Want to have a good moan, I know its unlike me. But why do the FA, TV companies and the police think its a good idea to start a football match where 30,000 people are attending at midday on a Sunday, there's four quarter finals to be played, and of course the team with the longest journey has the earliest start, its so early that if I wanted to catch the first train out of London then I would arrive at the nearest station 7 minutes after the kick off with still another 15 minutes to walk to the station. The coaches the clubs are laying on to get the fans from London there start leaving the Kent and Sussex Coastal towns at 4:30, I will be leaving at 6:30. Why because football has sold its soul to the tv companies. End of rant, sorry. Have a nice day, enjoy the shopping.
  8. It's even worse when you might have to make a big contribution to it, why do brides have to have that perfect day, and how come these days the groom father is expect to cough up? Brightening up a bit.
  9. Morning all, Audis must be to popular, been lucky with my selections must have had about 6 in a row, started with an A4 now progressed to an A7 a beautiful old mans car, only trouble with it is when the rear spoilers up, the police know you have hit 85 mph, mine obviously have never risen from the boot lid. My boy describes the A7 as an armchair on wheels. Raining hard here in dirty Dartford. Got an horrendous day today, next week, well all I can say is blow it, if I can't get all the work done, then the food industry will be struggling in 2015 and I just hope this summer ain't going to hot. Have a great POETS day, enjoy your weekend, and feel sorry for me on Sunday as I have to go to a wedding fair at Leeds castle, what have I done wrong to deserve that.
  10. Morning all, I think Tam should keep posting in here, after all we need her long post on the weather to counteract my garbage. I think unfortunately ok fortunately my contributions will have too start to decrease as work is getting to much at present, so I will be cutting back on the length of my off topic posts. I find this early period from around 5 to 7 in the morning to be great for getting work done, the phone dosen't ring and the emails have generally been answered, so I get some thinking / designing time. It looks like I going to get 3 major projects over the next year to design / contract, 1 is bad enough 3 will be horrendous. I will try to pop in every day and do a quick little bit, but if I can't manage it, then I'm sure you understand. Its dark out in dirty Dartford, but the sound of rain on the window wasn't what I was expecting this morning. Have a good day everyone.
  11. Morning all. Only a quickie today as up to my eyes in it with work for the next 3 years but especially bad at the moment, in fact never known anything like it. Like AS I commute around the road works known as the M25 and I too saw a beautiful double rainbow yesterday, it was a truly magnificent specimen with very vivid colours, the outer rainbow faded quite quickly but the inner one kept up with me for a good few miles, so I assume it will also be getting a speeding ticket as well, oh only joking, I would always obey the traffic laws, honestly guv. Its dry and bright out there today, and Venus could be clearly seen this morning. Hope everyone well, and have a good day.
  12. Occasionally there's more important thing than football, so my best wishes goes to Snowlady and her family, I hope everything goes to plan, and your recovery is swift and thorough. BJ my thoughts also go with you and your mum tomorrow.BJ you know me to well, I will not be reporting in tomorrow, I'm to tired and emotional, what a night, absolutely brilliant, still on a high and buzzing now after a 4 hour drive home, through terrestrial rain around the M25 / M1 junction, I knew I could get the weather in there somewhere. Surely this ain't normal for an old fossil like me. Hope you all have a good day today.
  13. Morning all, looks dry out. JimmyH thanks for the nice words, why don't you give Welling a go as you suggest, they play a decent standard of football, crowds are fairly good and off course you will have a lot of local derbies to watch. I went on a Charlton fan Internet site, yesterday and there was a whole thread on the subject of dads being cuddle by their sons, for the first time in many years, just because some over paid footballer put the ball into a net, amazing some of the stories where classics. I think I might get into trouble today on here, the funniest thing I can ever remember being said by wife yesterday, might be a little controversial for here, so if your easily offended the let me know and I will remove it, everything that follows actually happened and was said, the names will not be altered to protect the innocent and my ribs still hurt, eventually Marion my long suffering wife saw the funny side too, but it was a very long eventually. I expect the majority of you are much younger than we are, and as you may remember that my wife celebrated her 60th birthday in style a few weeks ago, like all people who get to that old age, very shortly after the last celebratory ballon has deflated and before the cake has been eaten, the marvellous NHS send you a very important late birthday present, I didn't know about this and was surprised and frankly embarrassed by it, it a test kit for bowel cancer obviously of vital importance and the test is carried out at home, well being a bowel cancer kit, I'm sure you can know what got to be tested, anyway I nicked named it the Winnie (the pooh) test. It is not an easy test to undertaken as you have to catch the sample prior to it hit the water. Well after a experiments I finally got the hang of it, and all was a great success and the test turned out fine, so I got about 6 months before I got to do it again. Anyway Marion's kit arrived on Thursday and she was understandably nervous about it, and the contortions you got to do to successfully undertake the test, the appropriate hour arrived and Marion disappeared into the loo (obviously I was unaware of what was happening) suddenly out of the loo came this long line of expletives, all far to bad even for my sensitives ears, eventually the obvious anger, turned to rage, and I wondered what wether our bathroom would survive, then it all went quite, so I sneaked upstairs to listen at the door to see if I could hear anything, I could sobbing. Me being me, legged it down the stairs and carried on with my jigsaw, she eventually came down, and there was an Erie silence for around an hour and half. Calculating that she should have calmed down a little, I showed my concern and asked if she had undertaken the Winnie test yet (subtle I ain't), a longer version of what went on it the loo erupted downstairs, and it wasn't pleasant, but at least it broke the ice, anyway her final words to me and this the absolute truth was, well it's was alright for you, you used to Field in the slips, laugh, I couldn't stop, my ribs hurts, my stomach ached, and my reaction didn't seem to ease the situation. However she eventually understood what she said, and admitted she dropped the Winnie. Boy did I feel sorry for her, I even gave her a cuddle. Sorry about that but it's the funniest thing that has happened to us in years, I hope it hasn't offended anyone. Something else happened yesterday In fact a lot did, so will have some new stuff saved up, but we went down to my daughters to see the grand kids, the oldest is about 21/2, and I just can't believe her ability on an iPad, so can do so much more than me, she can't talk much, and certainly cant say grandad, she can whizz around a computer, how do they do it, I find it amazing, frightening and worrying all at once. My wife can't even turn one on, I can but only get about 2% of the usage out of the flaming thing. Mind you her mothers strict with her she can only use occasionally and its password protected, but my daughter has caught her trying to break the pass word :-) Off work today so I can go to football, I know I'm stupid to go but the boy wanted to go (and so do I) its only a short 31/2 hour drive up there and another 31/2 hours home, well Sheffield ain't that far, really don't think we win, but I hope we do, have a good day, I will if we win.
  14. What a brilliant regional thread this is, just in these 4 pages alone you got short masterpieces from AS, Alixandra, you got snowy lady battles with ill health (and I would like to add my best wishes for Tuesday and ultimately a successful outcome) you got J P with his weather analysis, its makes it a pleasure getting up early to read these heart felt pieces. AS you should write that story, just pick a story and go for it, you say that's the hard part, I always thought that, but as the old saying goes everyone got a novel inside us. I have and I know that I should be penning it now, but work won't allow it. Some 16 odd years ago my father wrote a short story about his life history, unfortunately missing out his wars years in Burma, he was a far better wordsmith than I, and I want to convert this into a novel and extend the length to include my life, perhaps altering things here and there to make it more interesting, there enough material for a couple of novels, all about the trials and tribulations of a working class family, living in dirty Dartford, who have advanced out of the slums and the lowest scum life imaginable to become well I suppose working class. I am fast running out of time, you young man are not, just do us all a favour and go for it, enjoy the experience, and do something that you and your children will be proud off for the rest of your / theirs lives. Sorry that came out as a bit of a lecture, it wasn't meant too. I think I better mention the weather, its dry, damp and dreary in dirty Dartford, oh how I wish I didn't have to keep typing those words, I'm and the wife are that depressed by this dreadful dismal winter that we have decided to book 2015 holiday shortly, so we have been looking through an online cruise Boucher, its hers favourite cruise line (and mine by a mile, boy you get well and truly pampered, the crew are fantastic) seeing all those lovely white ships sailing around the Mediterranean make me wish I could jump on a plane today and fly away to some white sandy beach, but no, I must wait until next summer, but for now I shall just daydream of the fine food, the free flowing wine and beer and the nice people you meet over a long evening meal, of the sun kissed bald heads and those white topped waves. Think I better stop now. Have a great day and make sure you enjoy yourselves.
  15. Not certain what's been happening on here today, and to be fair, I don't want to either. Like MK says let's get back to happy weather related regional thread, or in my case the usual rubbish of non weather related posts :-) I don't normally speak about the football games I go to, I do mention the fact that I am going, but today if I get this right will be both weather related and football related. Today I went to see Charlton at the valley where the drainage has collapsed and the water table is only about 10mm below the playing surface, knowing in my heart we where going to lose, but I thought why not go, its a beautiful day, the sun was shining, birds singing and the pitch well I think you can say it was mud, with a few patch of grass, actually reminded me of Surreys pictures of his garden. The game kicked off off eventually half time come round, and the Charlton and QPR Down syndrome teams come onto the pitch, these lads mostly youngster are the absolute highlight, they love the applause and lap it up, they are really fantastic, and be honest this is the second time this year they have been presented to a large crowd. Anyway the game if you where a Charlton fan ended happily with us snatching a 92 minute goal, great joy erupted and I got a kiss from the 18stone bloke who sits behind me when we scored, also got a lovely hug from my boy, he never done that before, all this love and excitement just made me wonder and I don't want this to sound condescending but will the fans of the big TV clubs ever know what today feels like - pure joy, we have suffered a lot of negativity over the past few years & today, no matter how small & insignificant in the football world & possibly even our season, was just a brilliant feeling. Have a great night what's left of it, and enjoy yourself, I have the wine slipped down a treat.
  16. Morning all, hope everyone's well. Today's the day I have dreaded for the last 6 months, waitrose in Dartford has shut, now got to drive to longfield every week to get our shopping, really gutted about that, a round trip of 10 miles. I know that there are home delivers but I can't see the meat the I am buying, which I must see, otherwise how do I know if its any good. Also the sell by date, we need to have food that will last for a week, when some of these deliveries firm pick (not all there is one exception) you get the date they want to give you, well hard luck, I won't buy. That's my rant over, if AS can't rant then I can ;-), wonder how his house is after a young daughters sleep over. Today, as its appears to fine out, but to dark yet to tell, I going to football, to se Charlton lose again, but hey I'm used to that, been ordered by my boy to have steak and chips ready for his arrival prior to our pilgramige to the valley of my dreams, hence why I need some good meat, part of my training when I was a boy many moons ago was to go to Smithfields and be educated on meat, a master butcher took me under his wing and showed me how to select a fine piece, something I remember so 40 years on. Boy where have those years gone, can still remember the salt beef sandwiches and a pint of bitter, in a pub with sawdust on the floor. Well the sky has lightened and you reporter from dirty Dartford can report its a crystal clear day, not a cloud in the sky, hope you all have a great day, unless you are queens park rangers fan, then I hope its truly miserable, but I doubt it somehow. Actually on closer inspection its look like we might have a very slight frost.
  17. BlimeyClaret, is my wife a bigamist, yours sounds identical to mine. Similar circumstances to you, she decided she wanted her own bank account, goodness know why, she's got full access to all our joint accounts and knows all my private account access details, so I pointed out there was no need, even the woman down the bank agreed she had access to every penny off mine, but no, her sisters got their own account and she wanted one. Eventually, the time arrived and we went down to open an account, and being very important people :-) we got shown to a private room, (they assured me it wasn't to prevent her indoors from scaring the kids, when she looked at them), ain't I'm pleased she don't read this, I be brown bread (think that what they say in Essex, well they do in eastenders. Anyway back on subject to my off subject post, we signed up for like you an Internet account, so we go through all the pass words, but obviously coming from Kent, we remembered them, we got home and I showed her, how to turn the computer on, how to log in etc., she looked at me in total bemusement and asked me in her silly I don't what your talking about you total thicko voice, where's my passbook, so I can pay my money in and take it out. I tried to explain she asked for an Internet account and it could only be accessed via the Internet, and the admitted that I was a total idiot and was all my fault. I now have to do all her on long banking for her, which basically means transferring money from our joint account into her account, and if we get short transferring it back, god knows what this has achieved but she happy, and I'm still a thicko, but in already knew that. I really thought she was a one off, but she obviously isn't, and to be fair that has slightly disappointed me. Iceni, re learning the computer and driving, with her indoors I totally agree, she can do neither, she was in her 30's with 3 young kids and we had no money, she decided to learn to drive (30 years ago now) and it costs us a lot of money to try to get her to pass her test, to be fair she was a good driver, one day she announces to everyone, she will never be able to drive, and promptly gave up, leaving me to chauffeur her around for the rest of her life, and her to lug pushchairs, kids etc around on the bus. If she had set her mind to it she would have passed her test, same with the computer.
  18. So it was all your fault, I lost an hour off my life stuck on theM25 whilst all the rubber neckers had a look, seriously you lads do a marvellous job, and must face some horrendous jobs.Be interested to know how it caught light, obviously only if you are allowed to let on.
  19. Afternoon, had to do an unexpected call today to just north of Birmingham, so decided to leave early only to be frustrated by a hay stack on fire just before the M25 / A1 junction this morning, how did a hay stack catch fire after all this rain, surely it was to wet? Unless of course it was covered and internal combustion took place, still going tonight on the way back. Claret047 (Dave) firstly I'm here and I'm not afraid of your wife (mainly because she not here :-) otherwise I would be shacking in my boots) but when you are married to an old battle axe like I'm am, then nothing can scare you. You see you are totally different from me, my wife don't know how to turn the computer on, therefore I can say what I like about her, and get away with it. For your lovely and undoubtedly beautiful wife (I can creep as I just realised she's an Essex girl and we all know there reputation, think you might be able to tell, that my bravery is receding extremely quickly) information I have always referred to Dartford (my home town) as dirty Dartford, therefore I needed to find a nickname for for my work place ( Harlow) so after doing a quick tour around Harlow and surrounding areas and surveying the locals 'orrible Harlow just sprung into my mind, can't understand why? I Think I might have got around Daves wives, with that great bit of Kentish charm, anyone else agree? Jax, please see excuse above. Been a beautiful day driving around the M25, M1, M6, M42 and the return journey, a little bit of drizzly stuff in the midlands, good visit as well, nice enquiry, but more importantly its a right old challenge for my brain box, extending a bespoke refrigeration plant which isn't / hasn't been designed to is a challenge indeed, see money ain't everything it the challenge (last bit was put in just in case the client is reading this pile of old rubbish). Didn't think I could do what he wanted, but after having a good old root round, I think I can, assuming he's got the pennies.
  20. Morning all, hope everyone's well. Funny old day yesterday, there's you lot saying how warm it was, and me shivering and having to have a soak in the bath to get warm, too old to be working in temperatures of -23c as I was yesterday, blimey I had forgotten how cold that was, however I did win gold for my skating, little hint don't walk through a paddle just prior to entering a large freezer :-) Sad day for me today, it's my Insitute dinner up in and London, it's known as the fridgeman ball, last year I decided not to go again, and surprisingly this I'm not, the reason, to many ghosts of colleagues and great friends most of who have gone to the great fridge in the sky. The young 'uns are all far to studious and want to talk work, they don't get it that its to do with meeting your opposition and engaging in conversation with them, chatting to them and becoming friends. I don't know I get so frustrated now days that everything is taken so seriously, there's no time for good old fashion banter. So of the stories from long ago where classics, who could ever forget going to the great room in the Grovenor and having a great evening, going back to your room with a bottle of whiskey and a few mates, someone accidentally throwing up in a lift and remarkable remembering to apologise in the morning and offering to pay the cleaning bill, only for the very snooty receptionist to answer well that was ok then, but whose going to pay for Dustin Hoffman cleaning bill, unfortunately for us, young Mr Hoffman was not the tallest of guys and apparently well, what can I say. We tried to apologise, but apparently he had left. Always have a chuckle when I see him on tele. Mike, the offender was a total character a brilliant designer, beautiful, wife, great kids, taken by cancer at a far to early age, mate how I miss you. I cannot stand those memories again flooding through my brain, so this sad day, I will give it a miss, hopefully this will help, but I got a feeling it won't. The ongoing 'ole situation is now resolved got, some lovely level paying slabs and a bright yellow access lid to the new valve below, let's hope the fire brigade never uses it. Next door dog, looked at all with great suspicion and had a good sniff round and then promptly christianed it, so I suppose that 3 nil to him and game set and match. Weather in dirty Dartford matches the description, its dull, dank and dreary. Have a good day everyone and I'm sorry if I depressed you, but I hate this yearly anniversary. Congratulations captain shortwave that a bit of good news.
  21. Morning all, hope everyone fine and well, funny AS I nearly posted a similar thing about Coast yesterday, miss his wit and weather chat, I wonder if it was work related as he was quoting some big export order. Hope he's well. Off to the heart of Kent today, enjoy my jaunt down seven mile lane, let's hope its open and no trees have fallen, that was a great piece that AS wrote about the fallen tree in Brighton, boy he can sure write a good item, wish I was a talented as that, suppose if I keep trying I might get to being about 50% of his writing skill by the time I retire. I thought Iceni piece was great as well, I have been arguing her points for many years, but unfortunately without her eloquence. I hope you all have a great day this dull, grey dreary day in dirty Dartford, oh no news on the 'ole front it's the same as yesterday, although the state of the path has deteriorated and now feels like you drunk when you walk on it, in fact next door dog refuses too, which has lead to some hilarity as the owner tries to pull him, and he just sits down, and looks at him with his sad mournful eyes, dogs is winning 2 nil at moment.
  22. A couple of very heavy showers including hail here in 'horrible Harlow, enough to flood the car park. Tipping it down again, at 1:15 in Harlow. Sound like thunder as well, unless someone's moving something heavy about outside, will need boat soon to get to car, then bigger boat to pull me out of car park.
  23. Morning all, hope everybody's well. Looks like a bit of rain in the night, but looks a nice morning with a clear blue sky, here in dirty Dartford. The ongoing 'ole saga, is that the 'ole through to Australia has been nearly filled in, but the dodgy pavement still remains, so its care time when walking through the gate, all the signs and safety fencing has been found and re-erected, so hopefully the work should be completed today. Off to 'orible 'Arlow today to the office, guess what, more meetings, wonder when I am actually going to do some proper work, never mind got a nice drive into the heart of Kent tomorrow, which I must admit to enjoying. Hope you all have a great productive day, as I said I won't, but that don't stop you enjoying your selfs.
  24. For those who like snow and football below hopefully is a link to an article in the daily mail, hopefully this will work, it's called snow joke and features football in the snow over the generations, hope you enjoy as much as I did. My favourite was the Eddie Firmani photo, I can remember sitting on top of the east terrace admiring his skills as a six? year old, what a player and just shows how far we have fallen over the years. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2532837/Kenny-Dalglish-Alan-Shearer-Colin-Bell-Football-snow-Golden-Years.html
  25. Morning all, hope everyone's fit and well and ready for the week. Not a breath of wind out this morning and dry, didn't see any frost. The 'ole saga has taken a serious turn for the worse yesterday on looking into it (BJ just for you) I felt movement (not my bowels) underfoot, the little bit of path left for me to get out of my gate have started to collapse into the aforementioned 'ole. I don't mind admitting it I panicked and ran indoors doing a good impression of a screaming banshee, the wife looked at me in total disbelief, and decided to inspect for herself, I like any dutiful husband warned about her excess weight being put on the collapsing pavement, she hit me, ok you'll right I should have been a bit more subtle and I should have ducked. She roped up (it is a very deep hole, although I don't think its a plug :-) hole as we are at the top of the hill) and looked like Sherpa tamsin (spl?), thought the googles and lambs wool hat was a bit OTT, but hey she was happy and to be fair it was an improvement on her normal attire. She ventured out and with me hanging onto the rope for dear life, she stood an the pavement, which immediately started the very short journey to the centre of the earth, did she panic of course she a woman, she jumped up and down and screamed blue murder, I suggested she got off the offending pavement prior to her and me falling into the 'ole, as her considerable weight was pulling me with her. Luckily she did as told and jumped backwards into our garden (at least where she landed dosen't need the heavy roller on it) and hit me again as apparently she a bit sensitive about her weight since Christmas. When I pointed out we are now marooned in our house, with only a weeks supply of food and we would have to stay put and perhaps even talk to each other, well she panic even more, and at the top of her voice, told me that she hated me and would rather take the chance with the 'ole than stay a week with me, at which stage with all the neighbours leaning out off their windows laughing, she decided to hurdle the front wall, this would have worked and to be fair to the old girl, it was a good idea, but I think she should have really have taken the roped off first, because I imagine it was painful sitting astride the brick wall. I got the blame for that, and the state of me this morning, reminds me off the great cockney song, 2 lovely black eyes. Well have a great day.
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