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I see summer has arrived! 8)


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 2:36 pm
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Yep, it's epic right now!


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 2:36 pm
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Blazing sunshine and roasting temperatures here

Oops! sorry! Got a bit confused there. That was 1976. Lashing down here too 🙁


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 2:38 pm
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My daughter is at T-in the Park and won't be happy!


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 2:38 pm
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I was caught out in it at lunch. How dark is it now? *waits for next lot of thunder* 😯


 
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The folks in my office think I'm mental 'cause I headed out on the motorbike into it. I told them I wanted to test if my waterproofs still worked...


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 2:40 pm
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I work in an attic, it's pretty loud on the velux windows!


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 2:42 pm
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Glorious sunshine in Aberdeen now, no really it is.


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 2:51 pm
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*does not fancy planned road ride to Carnwrath or Inners in [i]that[/i]*


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 2:51 pm
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I spoke to a friend earlier who said is sunny on Peebles, but he may have been lying.


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 2:56 pm
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Not a good day to be a gardener. Don't think I'll be wearing these pants again.


 
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Indeed, it's quite an impressive storm for Edinburgh 🙂


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 2:57 pm
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Don't think I'll be wearing these pants again

Shit yourself when the thunder started? 😉


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 3:00 pm
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Maybe it's a good day to be an office worker...


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 3:02 pm
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I got caught out in a monumental hailstorm yesterday over near Halifax. Fortunately driving but I had to stop the car, couldn't see out the windscreen even with the wipers on full speed! 😯

Temperature dropped by about 10 degrees, pitch dark, thunder and it turned the road into a river within seconds.

Loved it!


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 3:05 pm
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Not raining in Leith!

(ruddy black sky tho)


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 3:06 pm
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Just finished a hail-stone storm in Cannock....


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 3:06 pm
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Flooding in the spur car park so bad that it looks like water is flowing through the side of a car 😯


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 3:10 pm
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Blackford hill is white and the pond is now in the road. may be exaggerating slightly.


 
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excellent now I can get the whole T-in the Park experience without leaving the house. I'll pitch up a tent in the back garden, turn the TV on to show some music I really don't want to hear, I'll burn £150, I'll pay my wife a tenner for a roll on uncooked sausage then get her to throw a bottle of piss at the back of my head


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 3:14 pm
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Just as well TJ, given the state of your roof!


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 3:23 pm
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Apprently it's ok over at T in the Park.


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 3:26 pm
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raining on and off here in Northern Walestershirshire. Pretty gloomy. It's my bloody day off, tempted to just go and get wet...


 
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Thunder, lightning and hailstones in Edinburgh

Ah, so that's where it went - had the same here in west yorks yesterday teatime (or, if Cpt Flashheart is reading) diner time 🙂
First time Ted the Terrier had witnessed real thunder - he was not too happy, not 'barky' but ducked and covered under the dining room table 🙂 - odd really as he had no issue at all with fireworks last year..


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 4:11 pm
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Could be a tad [url= http://twitpic.com/5n1164 ]damp[/url] for the ride home.


 
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Balcarres St 😮

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Still nice and dry here (8 miles away) In East Lothian. I went into Porty to pick up my sons BMX at lunchtime and the place was cold and soaking. Weird shit Eh?, I blame Rupert Murdoch and News International.


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 4:19 pm
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Balcarres St

Good job I cycled to work today, as that's on my car commute but not my cycle commute. 🙂


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 4:26 pm
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I've got a flat on Balcarres Street (in Craighouse Gardens). Glad I bought a 2nd floor one now!


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 4:29 pm
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is that balcarres street now? really? the car is down that way...


 
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So I'm told bigjim but I did not take the pic nor see it.


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 4:30 pm
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Crikey - that looks a bit expensive. My bike is currently outside at sub-basement level behind our New Town office. Hope it hasn't floated away. 😯


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 4:33 pm
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My garden is a bit flooded. Biblical rain is the only way to describe it.


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 4:38 pm
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Sunny here in Glasgow, what's that all about!
Went to Napier, used to drink in the waiting room, can't believe how bad balcarres St looks!!


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 4:47 pm
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Hmm - Bavelaw Road is mentioned in that STV report. Think I better head home and hope my house isn't now sporting an internal swimming pool.


 
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Well thankfully the STW report was talking pish as far as Bavelaw Road was concerned. Ah well, given I'm hope early think I'll just have to get a Peroni opened and get the TDF on the telly.


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 5:16 pm
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Sounds like a near perfect day to try and do 31 laps of Arthur's Seat...


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 5:22 pm
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Lovely day again, one mornings rain in the last 2 weeks. Another reason to live in England.


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 5:26 pm
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Lovely day again, one mornings rain in the last 2 weeks. Another reason to live in England.

Tomorrow it'll be dry here, but you'll still be in England...


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 5:29 pm
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Haha dry in Scotland, good one. 😀

And yeah a bonus again I'll still be England. 😉


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 7:18 pm
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Drac - you live in occupied Scotland... 😉


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 8:24 pm
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Haha dry in Scotland, good one.

I'm still all sunburned after last weekend's ride at innerleithen :mrgreen:


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 8:26 pm
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Ahh, Northwind...


 
Posted : 08/07/2011 8:29 pm
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I was!


 
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