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Well, what did I tell you

You heard it here first

HERE'S the good news you've all been waiting for.

Damn it! Knew I should have dug up another part of our lawn to turn it into a Melon patch!

Here we go again. We get the same forecast every year. There's always some old boy gets his pine cones and seaweed out on the local news in late spring and predicts the summer ahead. Always incorrectly. I just wish the Met Office wouldn't join in. They made the same prediction this time last year.

With the last two summers having been so unremittingly awful by anyone's standards, even a week's dry will be considered an improvement. Still and all, every single summer in the whole of the 1960s was cold and wet. It could easily happen again.

FelixLeiter wrote:Here we go again. We get the same forecast every year. There's always some old boy gets his pine cones and seaweed out on the local news in late spring and predicts the summer ahead. Always incorrectly. I just wish the Met Office wouldn't join in. They made the same prediction this time last year.

With the last two summers having been so unremittingly awful by anyone's standards, even a week's dry will be considered an improvement. Still and all, every single summer in the whole of the 1960s was cold and wet. It could easily happen again.

As someone born in 1958 and living on the South Coast, I have to take issue with this statement. By the end of the summers I looked like a Pakistani !

Hi WHR,
Take as many issues as you like with Felix because he is absolutely correct!
Something that the doom and gloom merchants cannot explain and if questioned, totally ignore the question BUT from the late 1930's until 1975 the world was cooling and it was even thought that a mini Ice Age was going to occur.
When you consider that right through the second world war when there was masses of carbon all about we continued to get colder.
I appreciate that the climate is warming but still maintain that this is a natural phenomena and man and his carbon output is not the main culprit.
Carbon was picked on because the politicians know that it can be measured and they from the measurements can levy more taxes!
When man can control the Sun then he can control global warming!
Don't hold your breath!
JB.

Well Felix and Johnboy you are a cheerful pair

I for one think the forecast is right this time (and I'm a pessimist }

Well i'm getting extra supplies of suncream in stock, ready to apply to my customers. So here's hoping.

oldherbaceous wrote:Well i'm getting extra supplies of suncream in stock, ready to apply to my customers. So here's hoping.

The mind boggles

I will think of you at work this summer, OH



Oh, and that hedge needs cutting

Dear Alan, this brings memories of when bikini lines were first being mentioned and i was still in the building trade.
I was working for a really posh lady, and when asked what she was doing today she replied, going to have her bikini line done.
Well at that time i thought having that done was to tan the white bits.
So on her return she looked as if she was walking a little bow legged, so i cheekily asked if she was a little burnt.
She replied in a surprised way, and said, "they don't burn it off Craig".

Even i was lost for words.

Johnboy wrote:Hi WHR,
Take as many issues as you like with Felix because he is absolutely correct!
Something that the doom and gloom merchants cannot explain and if questioned, totally ignore the question BUT from the late 1930's until 1975 the world was cooling and it was even thought that a mini Ice Age was going to occur.
When you consider that right through the second world war when there was masses of carbon all about we continued to get colder.
I appreciate that the climate is warming but still maintain that this is a natural phenomena and man and his carbon output is not the main culprit.
Carbon was picked on because the politicians know that it can be measured and they from the measurements can levy more taxes!
When man can control the Sun then he can control global warming!
Don't hold your breath!
JB.

Hi, Johnboy. This might interest you.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 74630.html

Hi WHR,
Thank you for the thread. Seems that I am not alone with my thoughts.
They mention people who doubt that global warming is occurring which is clearly incorrect but according to such things as Ice Cores showing much higher Carbon Dioxide concentrations in the distant past where deliberately left out of the calculations and according to the person who is the scientist in charge of taking the Arctic cores and analysing the findings they deliberately falsified his findings where it suited their purpose.
I remain unconvinced!
JB.

despite all the media hype scientists dont know it all, and their crystal balls are no clearer than anyone elses.
surely its only common sense that a small change in the suns activity can have major effects on our climate.

It ain't 'alf 'ot mum!

Maybe what was predicted has started.

Well, it is absolutly beautiful here today, around 26 degrees with a wonderful wind blowing.

I've not been the allotment yet today because my son has just come home this afternoon from the South of France and he's fallen in love with the place.

I'll pop the lottie later on this evening and water my stuff. I'm also stocking up on sunblock because I burn so easily, i'm already pink in places (and behave yourself with your reply to this bit Herbie )

Grockies scales are looking a little crispy too so she's putting on plenty of mud to keep the sun off.

I think this summer is going to be a brilliant one for several reasons, and not just the weather cos I have a fair bit going on, so nice weather to do it all in is just an added bonus.

A little rain here and there will be fine with me, just not on the dates of my little jaunt though

Dear Lizzie, i really don't know why you think so bad of me at times.
But i must just quickly add, the thought of pink bits does make my mind..........
Glad Andrew had a great time in France.
Sounds as if you have got an exciting year infront of you this year Lizzie.

One more thing, if Grockie needs a new wallow digging, i'm her man.

I think they are on about a bad Summer over the North of Wales, Alan.