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  1. Charltonkerry
    Morning all, hope everyone's well. Bright sunny morning, no wind, might have been a slight frost, haven't written those words to often, this dreadful winter. 'Ole still there, nothing in it today, apart from a shiny new valve, very impressive and looks expensive, on Friday I saw snow outside my house and it laid, therefore I think I could claim the lead in the snow depth competition, assuming that when they froze the water pipe the exhaust from the excess liquid nitrogen counts? Hope that's not overtime for the legal begal? Off to see the grand kids down in sittingbourne today, so will have to find the earplugs :-) hope the M2 has recovered from its sink hole otherwise might take a lot longer than normal. Have a good stress free day, enjoy the nice weather, and I hope the damage if suffered recently ain't to bad, and those who are feeling or have loved ones feeling unwell, they make a recovery when they feel the sun on their faces. Have a great day. Don't believe some companies just had an email in from a very nice range of of hotels advertising their latest special offer, waterside experience, I think I seen enough water.
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    Afternoon all, bit late today, but a lot has happened firstly wind (external) woke me at 1:15 this morning, it was quiet magical as it was howling a tune, something I never heard before, also it was as light as day, a magical full moon occasionally being covered by very fast moving scudding clouds, truly worth getting out of bed for. Because of this excursion I managed to oversleep, so I was late to go shopping, anyway couldn't get out the gate because of that blooming ole. Safety fancies where around 20 houses aways, dangers signs where scattered everywhere, along with sandbags which are meant to stop them blowing over. Minor damage around here, neighbours trellis isn't there any more, few roof tiles gone, but nothing like '87 when out of 60 houses around our crescent we where the only house that wasn't severely damaged, that noise in the night will live with me forever, so will standing in the crescent watching whole roof fluttering down to the ground, think we lost around 5 complete roofs and 54 more damaged some beyond repair, most sheds where smashed to pieces although I did see I come past my first floor bedroom window. Now for the very childish bit for which I truly apologise, I looked into the 'ole and as I said its very deep and I was surprised to see a kangaroo in their, like I said it is deep, so I said why don't you hop it. I told you it was bad and childish, that will teach you. Really unhappy as being a Charlton supporter I left early for the big cup match up in Sheffield along with a couple of thousands other mad Addicks, only to hear half up that the game was postponed. That was 3 hours and god knows how much diesel I will never see again, and just to make it better the bridge was closed so queued both ways. Mind you fill sorry for my boy he was really looking forward to watching a game of football, now he's gone back home to help plan his wedding in 2 years time, first time I seen him scream, cry and kick as I dropped him off at his home and insisted he got out the car :-). It was interesting that he showed me the wind damage to a house just around the corner from, the whole gable wall had came down last night, house was only 5 years old. Weather can't make it mind here one minute sunny and calm, next minute blustery and wet.
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    Am planning to inspect the hole later to see what / who is in it, if it weren't for people nicking my jokes (BJ) I could have said I was looking into it.Sorry people I been really good this week, and I was determined to be good, but it have failed, and I gone off topic, but really it wasn't my fault, you lot made it all to easy, for me.
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    Properly my safety barriers, save me looking for them :-)
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    Excellent, forgot about that one, well annoyed could have recycled it. Really made me laugh, in a quieter spell at moment.
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    Certainly blowing in dirty Dartford, not a good day for Thames water decide too change the fire hydrant outside your gate, leaving a very big hole surrounded by barriers which have just disappeared down the road leaving an unprotected hole, perhaps our netweather legal guru could tell me the going rate for falling down an ole?
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    Out of interest all our little estate is built on dene holes, road leading up to our crescent is actually called dene road. Worried of course not, if you got to go then it a different way to go. Anyway the structural engineer when he was investigating the last one said he was looking into it, made me laugh any way.Beautiful half moon out there tonight feel pelts cold.
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    Morning all, with all this weather around and the flooding situation, I think its time for me to be good and keep strictly on topic, so no ramplings this week. Look like we had a shower in the night, very damp out, didn't notice any wind. Have a good day.
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    Cor seeing that photo of porthleven brought back some memories (theme of the day for me) we stayed at the pub on the quay just down from that church and used to walk around the church to get a small sandy bay. Must have been one of our first holiday on our own, and just a little further up into the town was a little bistro where me and here indoors had our first bottle of Chablis, drunk a few more bottles since then. Bet the church service was interesting! Suppose they where not short of holy water... Sorry couldn't resist. Sunny spells now with occassional gusts.
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    Morning all, odd gusts and what's sound like passing showers, must have slept soundly last night as I wasn't awoken by anything last night, not even the now traditional, well I better not go their, as I know you youngster have better bladders than us old en's. The trees are swaying a bit outside, the grey clouds are scudding past at a fair old lick. I reread MK advice about popping over to the learning thread and never being to old to learn, she right (as usual), but I am finding that my brain cannot take anymore information, basically it full up. It's seem to be dumping recent information, but keeping the older stuff, I think it needs a good defrag, I have always had an active brain, and keep it so by continuing to epsork, undertaking complex designs and reading, doing puzzles etc.. I believe that excersising you mind is vital as you get older, and for me its a lot less painful than excersising your body. Not worried about the slight loss in memory, as I always got a notepad and pencil assuming I can find them:-). But what is annoying and to be fair it's been with me all my life is the inability to but faces to names, take the other day when I was at my nice restaurant on the wife's 60th this bloke walked I knew him, could I remember his name, or even where I knew him from, of course not, I go to meetings with 10 to 12 around a table, introductions done and within 5 minutes, I can't remember anyone's names. It was explained to me once, by a doctor, that its because I am not interested in the people, seemed a bit harsh, but I suppose he's right. I read on here recently that music bring back memories and boy does it, I got a iPod in the car with around a thousand of my kind of music on (be stupid if I didn't like the music wouldn't it) and on long journeys the old memories come flooding back, often it feels like the people are in the car with, and you are reliving those long lose days of the past, what worrying is the conversations I can remember, but annoyingly I now find that smells have a similar result. The smell of leather takes me back to my dad's first car, must be 30 or 40 years ago, strange. I suppose what I am trying to say is what a wonderful bit of kit our brain is, and how important it is to keep it fit. Will I take MK advice and wander into the learning area, I doubt it as I know I won't have the time for the next couple of years, even though deep down I went to as I know the mental exercise will be good for me. Feel in a very strange reflective mood today, think I must have slept heavy last night.
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    Thank you, not quite as I expected, but obvious. My old boss used to drum into my thick head page 1, book 1, which mean the obvious is normally the correct answer, only get technical when the obvious is no longer obvious. Something I now pass onto my young engineers. Cheers MK.
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    I realise that you don't take things too seriously from your previous posts, I was thinking about Boyles law as well but I thought I was the only sad person who could quote it, my explanation of a refrigeration system I think you could say was very simplistic but you get the idea. My question has been bugging me in all honesty since long before I joined here, I always had an idea it was something to do with the atmosphere / troposphere and cold leaking downwards from the heavens to the earth but in my own mind I can't see see how cold coluld leak from a vacuum to a pressurised environment so I think I was wrong. Better shut up now and await the answer. I have now confused myself now, should I mention the weather when I am on topic? Oh well we got blue sky's, I one or 2 bubbly clouds hurrying across the sky, and out off those blue sky's the rain comes.
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    Fluid dynamics, I apologise for the confusion I know its very unlike me, but its got me thinking, and if I'm thinking then why shouldn't everyone else? And no I am not going anywhere the model thread, I want or rather hoping for a simple answer, and I think if I went in there I would just get slaughtered for my lack of understanding, I already know I'm think, I don't want it reconfirming :-). But I hope you agree it ain't a bad question! Assuming I phrased it correctly and people can understand what I mean.
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    Help, for some reason today whilst doing what all men do it the bathroom (think), a question has sprung into my mind, and for the life of me I can't get rid of it, and very surprisingly it's very much a question about weather (always have to be a first time, even if it has taken me nearly 800 posts :-)). As some of you aware I design large industrial refrigeration plants for massive food factories, to give you an idea think of something the size of Wembley stadium. The principle of what I do is very simple (otherwise I couldn't do it), basically you convert high pressure liquid by passing it through a orifice (hole for you non technical people) and expand it into a low pressure gas, thus producing cold, a great example is when you put your finger over a bicycle pump, keep pumping and the remove your finger the air is hot when pressurised by keeping your finger over the hole but goes cold directly your remove your finger. So my question is how does Mother Nature produce cold? Simple question properly an impossible question to answer, I know that we have the same amount of water now as when the world was first created, I also know the cold is "stored" where the sun has least influence and therefore is cold, but is there a constant amount of cold like water the meanders around the world and escapes occasionally or does Mother Nature somehow manufactures its own cold. Hope this makes sense, I thought I would ask this question at the weekend as you would all appreciate it and have time to answer, I realise that this might not be the correct part of the forum to ask this question, and I don't mind if its get moved into a more suitable thread. Although I would think it was highly ironic that my first totally on subject post would be moved :-) whilst the question is very simple and put in an extremely simplistic manner, I got a feeling the answer will not be, if as I half expect that the answer is far to technical to explain to us mere mortals then, please feel free to say that. I await your answers with trepidation. Whilst I am in an questioning mode, why is it I always notice my spelling mistake, missing words etc after I have posted the original version? Regards Kerry
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    Morning all, hopefully today's the day when I will see some football at Charlton (I know I heard all the jokes about lack of )football and Charlton especially our residence comedian Jim Davidson one and only joke, I thought Charlton was called Charlton nil, last few games been rained off Yamkins posts worried about about them rising the Thames barrier as that increase the height of the water table and could put the game at risk, don't they understand that my game of football is more important than saving London from flooding. I must admit to never getting poetry and after reading some of your efforts last night, I see I'm not the only one :-). Only joking as I don't think I have ever liked so many posts. You lot are talented, but unfortunately I'm not. Whilst reading all verse something did pop into my head which was a modification of an old play on words, but then I forgot it, flipping old age, oh yea "I'm a poet and I don't know it" eventually I got there, and you are correct it wasn't worth it. Slept through last nights fun, opened the curtains and its wet out, not to blowy but, the sky has that's look off being the end of the world look, truly looks black and yuk. Have a nice day everyone, looks like her indoors is as she swanning about in bed, think I might have to have word, it ain't right that I got to get my own coffee is it? Well that's a surprise lovely blue sky spreading in from London direction, so in the last hour we gone from the end of the world to a beautiful sunny day, funny old weather ain't it.
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    BJkent, Katie, SussexJules, I wish you all and all the family all the best, sorry there are so many of you suffering out. Hope they are all getting the greatest care possible.
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    Morning all, Just got up, feeling good looked out the window, now feel deeply depressed, guess what raining hard. When will this continuous stream of low pressure systems end. Flooding will become a serious problem shortly. Off to the office today, so will see plenty off flooding, dreading going through Dartford and pass the church, since they put in the new flood defences Dartford centre haven't flooded, but the darenth yesterday was half way up the back of the chairs, I would that upstream then it would have burst its banks. Got to get a new starter underway today, so will get wet showing him his van etc., this is an unusual new starter, it's the first engineer we the directors haven't interviewed and we left it totally to the recommendations of others, so at least I can blame them. Seriously the lad had been unemployed for a while so its nice to get him back in work. He will become our furthest engineer north (Huddersfield) so we had a chat with our super salesmen and told him to expand our area where we are actively looking for work, could be interesting as there's plenty of food factories up in that neck of the woods. So it look like we are expanding again. Whilst talking about expansion look like we need some more engineers around the Reading, Swindon, Bristol area as we have decide that this area is soon to be targeted. Hopefully I will get home tonight, going by MK map above it look like high winds are due around 3pm so hopefully the Dartford bridge will remain open until I get over it. Tomorrow I'm hopeful that I will see my first game of football this year at the Valley, although going by the weather forecast this might be in doubt, so please can I order a dry slot from 1pm to 5:30 tomorrow afternoon, with calm winds, and a win, thank you. I hope I haven't asked for to much. One off yesterday off subject topics was about the lack of good restaurants in the Dartford area, if anybody been to any they could recommend then I would be interested to hear of them, only one condition must have meat on the menu, owing to my allergy of fish. Always annoys me that caveat as it cuts my selection down by so much, I often sits there looking at Marion meal thinking how unfair it is, but that's what life dealt me so I got to live with it. Have a great POETS day everyone. Really tipping it down now, oh dear, ain't good, also there's been a couple of gusts of winds lately. Rain is now coming down in biblical proportions, it's really chucking it down.
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    Chilly Milly that brilliant news, being a full time nurse for a while will mean you will get closer to your daughter, AS words are a lot better than I can put on paper. It will be a long and hopefully fully successful recovery at the end of that dusty long and winding road. I never had children or grandchildren who needed long term caring, to be honest I would be useless, I know however it takes a very special person with special talents to care for anyone, but for someone close to you then it takes an angel. You must enjoy the little victories that are won in her struggle, forget the defeats, set realistic targets, but also aim high. You both will get there, and let's be honest the worse is behind you both as both operation where successful. Let's hope the darenth will not flood I know its bad as it goes through Dartford town centre, even the ducks where struggling.
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    Interesting drive home from Peterborough tonight, mostly extremely heavy rain with only an occasional lighter period of rain. On the way up I noted that the flooding was less than my previous visit, on the way home it was getting worse again. Such a tragedy for those who are affected by the bad weather. The M11 and M25 was just awash with water, the lights where blinding and the idiots who drove up my tail are total ..... Please fill in the dots. That's a first the swear filter kicked in there.
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    Snow Raven, the meal was great, service great as well, we went for the full lot, I'm allergic to fish (more especially the smell), she who must be obeyed loves fish and they specialise in fish, Marion had lemon sole and she reckon it was really nice, I had to force down a T-bone steak rare which was very nice and it beat me. Sweet was something I never had before strawberries and pineapple with a very nice juice. Starter was the best I ever had basically it was wild mushrooms with few bits of fillet steak thrown in, served in a beautiful thick Madeira sauce, still dribbling thinking about it now. Wasn't cheap, but worth the expense, have special offers between Tuesday and Thursday although as I felt she needed spoiling I didn't look at these. Meal took around 2 hours which I like, as we where not rushed. Coffee was good as well. We will go again, don't know why we stopped going, one of my major gripes about living in Dartford is the lack of good restaurants, and I forgot about this one. Think the above meal was better than the bacon butty I had this morning in the little chef, one day they will also put some new coffee in the coffe machine as its getting weaker on every visit.Light rain in Peterborough and have been for a little while.
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    Jax, what surprised me and what writing that load of old cods wallop last night, was that I realised that I loved her for as long as I can remember, and that she wasn't just the person who cooked the dinner, done the washing etc. sometimes when you have been married as long as I have you take your partner for granted and writing that shook me and made me realise that exactly what I have been doing. Still won't stop me taking the mick, or getting in the bad books. To be honest it all came as a bit of a shock to me, always think its strange how writing something down, often for me, makes the answer / solution perfectly clear, that's prober why I write so much old rubbish on here. Managed to get in the dog house already this morning, by expressing my new found feeling of love to her indoors, ok 6:45 might be a bit early for some old bald headed git, to say he loves you, but just to sit there and laugh, well it kind of hurts, think I will now go back and be my normal grumpy old miserable self, anyway if she loved me as much as I loved her would you expect her to moan and whinge at you, just because you happened to mention if she's got her bus pass yet and reminding her that she make the coffee in the morning, therefore she should get herself out of bed and get the kettle on, surely that's a truly loving request and the answer I thought was yes my dear, not what impossible to with the poor kettle and my posterior. Dry out and bright out there this morning, slight tint of red in the slowly brightening blue sky's, hopefully it will stay that way, got that rotten trip up to Peterborough via the Little Chef, to interview someone, then got all day meeting re how we going to handle this work and what more resources we require, should be fun, having everyone spending money for me. Have a great day everyone.
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    Jax, in all fairness, I do take the Micky out of my wife, but I am more in love with her now, than those first few years of marriage, I couldn't think what it would be like coming home to an empty house, without the warm feeling of wondering what the hell I have done this time and how do I get out the latest cock up I made. I think its the knowledge that she is there to support me through the difficult times, the bad days at work, when all you want to do is kick the cat (we haven't got one, but I still want to kick it), the fun times, the birth of the grand kids, the death of a family friend. I know that she will always be there criticising, trying to turn me into her perfect husband, she knowing deep down, that the best she can hope for is the slob that I am. Its a partnership, you give and take, you bend to suit each, and Jax when you meet the right one, something deep down inside tells you, it will be hard, it will be infuriating, you will put your fist through a door in shear rage, but, always there will be that warm glow that I suppose is that terrible thing called love. Man, its fun, I am pleased I done it, and I sincerely hope you will get that bloody annoying bug. But my friend, enjoy your freedom, because you never know when you will get struck down, enjoy everything that is thrown at you. I did and somehow I got a wonderful wife whose 60 today, I been married for more years than I can remember, (but I did get 5 50's and took 5 wickets on 40 occasions) but tomorrow I can absolutely guarantee that I will do something wrong and the battle will re commence. Sorry about this pile of old gobbly gook, but I have had a great night, fine food, no drink and fine company, of her indoors. Can't think of anything to do with weather to finish off with. So goodnight, and everybody have a great evening and day tomorrow.
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    Evening all, got to get away early in the morning, so doubt if I have time to post. Funny talking about emigrating to Canada, one of my old cricketing mates went out about 40 years ago, he was an expert in refrigeration and was snapped up by the government, never really made sense needing refrigeration experts out there, but they do and boy he had a good life. Thought about it myself, but like most never took the plunge. Meal was surperb tonight, think I might have gained a few browny points, makes a change, properly only a few million to get back to evens. MK warning, makes me wonder why people takes such risk, never understand why, perhaps I just not a risk taker, but when you see and feel the power of the winds and wave, then why, what is the thrill I'm missing. Mother Nature has tremendous powers stored within its systems, which are released with such a fury, they can destroy the defences and constructions of men. I been at sea in force 11 and 12 gales, the power is ore inspiring, I was on a large cruise ship, being driven by goodness knows how many horsepower, when it hit a freak wave, captain estimated it at well in excess 40' despite all the momentum and power of the engines, the cruise ship was stopped dead by the force of that single wave, that is power. I suppose because I seen the force of the sea at first hand, I can't see the fascination. As MK everyone please stay safe, it silly to risk yours and others life for a great photo, taking your dog for a walk etc.. Funny old night out there, crescent moon, scudding clouds, fairly windy and warm, mostly dry, but a few quick passing showers.
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    Jax, with my dodgy knees, unfortunately now days I can only be slow, to much cricket on those long hot summer days of '76, I still can remember the juddering resounding through my kneecaps, amazing really to think that summer I got engaged, hit my first 50, got 50 wickets in the season, what a year, what a summer and do you know what the only thing I can't remember is the engagement. Going forwards almost 40 years, I am a bit excited tonight, as you may be aware its the wife's 60th tonight, because of travelling, Dartford bridge and the wind, we had not planned anything, got in early, so I thought I give a restaurant which we never been able to get into (for locals coach and horses in ruxley garden centre), blow me they had a cancellation, so off we go. Really excited by that. Still blowy out, sky's look threatening as well, but the nights are drawing out.
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    For those who got to use the Dartford bridge, its fine, a little slow that's all, I know before you say it, its a bit like me.
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