THE BRITISH THREAD II

@spendius,

No. I'm not well up on cave paintings. But it all sounds jolly interesting.

I've just been asked to make the porridge, so ta-ta for now.

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@McTag,

What the hell's wrong with this forum?

We went to see a big band concert this evening, but came away at half time.
Better on disc, with headphones. I thought the sound balance was sub-optimum.

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@McTag,

We had some very heavy rain last night, which played merry hell with my scabious.

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@McTag,

We had torrential rain too - it's beaten down a lot of the flowers in my garden. The one thing that is really thriving in all of this is lavender. I have several varieties down the front path and driveway borders, and we're getting masses of really large, fat, and happy looking bees, merrily feasting on it every day. Oh, and my day lilies are taller and lusher this year than they've ever been!

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We've avoided the storms, had some rain but nothing to write home about.

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@izzythepush,

More thunderstorms today. We were waiting for a bus, miles from anywhere, after visiting a garden centre, and down came the rain! And, oh boy, did it come down. It was like a monsoon. Soaked to the skin!

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@vonny,

Monty Don advised us to cut back the perennial geraniums this week, so I was doing that, when the rains started here. I had to carry on for a bit, but luckily I wasn't far from a change of clothes.

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@McTag,

We had to get on the bus in dripping wet clothes - we received some very strange looks from the other passengers. They must all have caught the bus much earlier, and looked bone dry! Embarrassed

We've had an enormous amount of rain here over the past two or three days, but the lawns are still bone dry!

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@vonny,

I remember our friends in Bavaria took us on a boat trip down the Danube, a few years back, from Regensburg I think.
The steamer had to pick up people at various points along the way. The jetties/ pontoons where the people had to embark had no shelters. The continental thunderstorms are ferocious in their violence, of course. So we had a lot of unplanned entertainment, watching the stragglers come on board, after the storm broke.
Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich staerker.

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@McTag,

I don't know if it made me stronger - but it's probably given me a cold!

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I've just read that London will host the 'biggest ever cycle event" with expected 70,000 cyclists participating.

In Münster, the closest larger city to us, over 100,000 citizens use a bicycle on a daily basis in order to get to work, school, sport or lectures, for shopping ...
Münster is home to more than 500,000 bicycles. This means that, from a statistical perspective, each inhabitant owns about two bicycles.

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@Walter Hinteler,

There was a fascinating young (American, I think) lady on the box this morning who has recently completer a solo cycle trip around the world, and she's shortly to set off on something else equally daunting. Daunting to me that is, but not to her.

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@McTag,

did she do a treadmill on a ship as she crossed the ocean?

then it doesn't really count, does it...

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@Rockhead,

She could cycle round and round the deck. But that would increase her distance travelled.
I don't know, I'll check.

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@McTag,

This is her.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9763072/Juliana-Buhring-becomes-first-woman-to-cycle-round-the-world-as-she-pedals-into-Naples-after-152-days-on-the-road.html

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@McTag,

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she's shortly to set off on something else equally daunting

Like her taking me on a trip round the world. Or you Mac. I don't know which would daunt her most. Was she "owt bit like"?

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@McTag,

There are people, Mac, who sit in smoke filled rooms brainstorming what there is still left to be first to do and who might sponsor it.

I once thought of being the first to get 5 thousand sun-dried cow pats into a telephone box but I couldn't think where to get the finance and turn myself a profit.

What we want is the first international woman's football team to beat Torquay United. Or a similar top notch women's cricket team to take on Todmorden's second eleven.

Now I have seen her she is "summat like".

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