The Untied Kingdom? - the British thread 2021

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  • SarasaSarasa Shipmate
    Just back from food shopping. Did you know there was a herb shortage? It took a long walk round various market stalls and three supermarket visits to get some mint, coriander and parsley. It was all far too hot for me too.
    I'm now in my nice relatively cool study while the lizard makes lunch. I reckon.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    My wife has just enjoyed - indoors - a nice session with her Welsh language Coffe-and-Chat group.

    We are Waiting In For A Parcel. It was supposed to be delivered yesterday by a winged-foot messenger (let the reader understand) but we were told, late in the day, that "an exception had occurred"; now we're being told that we were out, which is a lie.

    Coff*i* - a sgwrs, of course.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    I feel your pain, Karl; the top end of the porcine comfort zone is about 22°, assuming not too much humidity.

    Once humidity is factored in, anything over 20° can be really quite unpleasant.

    It's direct sunlight with me, I've concluded. I can find that uncomfortable well below 20C. In the shade I'm OK up to 26-27.
  • @Wesley J - the devastation caused by extreme weather in Continental Parts (WesShire included) is truly horrendous, and we're all pleased to hear that your Domicile is unharmed. *Climate Change* is proving to be a grim reality, whatever the naysayers may say.

    The rather miserable cool and cloudy weather we've been having in Arkland lately is much to be preferred, overall. Mind you, today is once more graced by the presence of The Big Yellow Face (thus once again proving our Sincerity), tempered by a mild but welcome easterly Zephyr.

    I think even brother @KarlLB and sister @Piglet would find it comfortable, at least in the shade!
  • My wife has just asked me to anoint her with Sun Cream. It claims to be effective for 24 hours, which I find an intriguing concept.
  • It would be useful, though, were you and your wife to be currently on the planet Mercury...
  • It would be useful, though, were you and your wife to be currently on the planet Mercury...

    I suspect that were one on the light side of Mercury something a little more substantial, like 20ft of concrete shielding, might be in order. There are, of course, Parts Northern getting 24 hour sunshine just now.
  • It would be useful, though, were you and your wife to be currently on the planet Mercury...

    I suspect that were one on the light side of Mercury something a little more substantial, like 20ft of concrete shielding, might be in order. There are, of course, Parts Northern getting 24 hour sunshine just now.

    I guess even Mercurians (?) require a spot of anointing now and then.

    I well remember seeing a photo of a train entering Bodø Station in Norway. The picture was taken at midnight, but looked as though it was taken at a rather overcast midday.
    :flushed:

  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Overheard in Reykjavik in June -

    Tourist: 'When does it get dark?'

    Receptionist: 'It doesn't'.
  • Firenze wrote: »
    Overheard in Reykjavik in June -

    Tourist: 'When does it get dark?'

    Receptionist: 'It doesn't'.

    :lol:

    Someone hadn't read their Baedeker...
  • Mercurials? Mercurites? Mercuranians?

    I'll get me concrete Coat and At.
  • Wesley JWesley J Shipmate
    Careful! Don't be too concrete! It might sink The Ark, which, freshly painted as She is (congratulations), we do not aspire to. Nor should you want to imitate silly watery Continentals! :smile:
  • Firenze wrote: »
    Overheard in Reykjavik in June -

    Tourist: 'When does it get dark?'

    Receptionist: 'It doesn't'.

    I lived for a few years in the upper Calder valley in West Yorkshire. The sun set on our house around November and rose again around March. In cold weather you could see where the sun had reached by the curving frost line on the hillside.
  • It was AIUI once sung of Durango, in Colorado USA:

    *In Durango, in Durango, where the Spaniards did fandango,
    In Durango, in Durango, where the sun goes down at noon.*


    Being, I guess, a reference to adjacent Mountains? Perhaps US Shipmates who know that area can confirm...
  • Wesley J wrote: »
    Nor should you want to imitate silly watery Continentals! :smile:
    I'm not sure, sadly, that they had any choice in the matter.

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