WCMUT....what cheered me up today

Dale. said:
A good old fashioned thunderstorm, daylight lightning (the sort that lights up a room even at daytime), proper rumbles and bangs, rattling the house at one point and proper, bouncy rain.
It was short lived, about 40 minutes, a power shower but as we don't get many here, I'll take it.

It's brightened up, it's hot but looking at that sky, the thunder might not be done with us yet.
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Between 6.30 and 7.00 earlier on, the thunder was continuous..not continual.. but continuous. I don't think I've ever heard that in the UK or even the US tbh. The cells crossed us and moved NW into Herefordshire and on into mid-Wales.
 
JohnC6 said:
Between 6.30 and 7.00 earlier on, the thunder was continuous..not continual.. but continuous. I don't think I've ever heard that in the UK or even the US tbh. The cells crossed us and moved NW into Herefordshire and on into mid-Wales.
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Same here, just a constant rumble.

My sister got it bad in Wales too.

All quiet now.
 
Dale. said:
Same here, just a constant rumble.

My sister got it bad in Wales too.

All quiet now.
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I didn't see any lightning which meant it was cloud to cloud or intra-cloud lightning and I think it was at high altitude,too. It all headed into Wales...to your sister's home :)

Today the official temperature on the Met Office website was 27C but under the patio brolly it was 33C..in old money 91.4F . Accuweather give the official shaded temperature and the 'real feel' temperature. It's 23C now ..2138hrs.so another 'sticky night.
 
I town today I saw some men dressed in American cavalry or civil war type costumes. They were just walking through a shopping centre and I've no idea if that's their normal garb or if they were attending something somewhere. I sort of hope it's their normal garb :D

Later I saw someone else who really stood out. He was tall and clean cut in his hair cut, general appearance and clothing, neat, white shirt, shorts and knee length white socks. You don't often see people in knee length socks and shorts. I thought he looked like someone out of Napoleon Dynamite. As we passed I noticed he had an American accent.

No criticism of any of these people is meant. I was just happy to see people doing their own thing :D
 
Discovering that Boy George and Donald Trump share a birthday.
 
It always amuses me a bit to find such different people shared a birthday - not good news for astrologers.

Eg Sylvester Stallone, FrIda Kahlo, The Dalai Lama and me share a birthday.

Dave
 
365 days / 8 billion people: I'm sure I share a birthday with an awful lot of good, bad and just plain folks.

Now that cheers me up! :naughty:
 
View: https://BANNED/MAstronomers/status/1668947972237697026?t=7G2VpZo7KeQ4oYcL5sAYkQ&s=19
 
Online or logged out I love to look through some of the forum posts as I find some images truly beautiful even if I don't comment, but for me at the moment the one part of the forum that I really am enjoying to look at is the people and portraits. As there are some stunning images being shared which is really great to see.
 
A damselfliy landing on my hand, it took off and returned several times :love:
 
Fuji Dave said:
Rain is what cheered me up, about time too,
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Its not due here for a couple of hours, and has been down graded from a storm to just "wet"
 
We had a GreenFinch in the garden. Not seen one there before.
 
seaodyssey said:
We had just a few drops and rumbles off in the distance, had to go out and water the Mrs garden stuff.
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It turned into a non-event here as well.
It rained for about 10 mins.
 
Cobra said:
It seems that there isn't anywhere as much of that, as there should be.
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Little Blake loves books, and he's not 18 months yet.... But "Tabby McTat" is his favourite right now, but it got a bit much after the 5th time... :LOL:
 
JohnC6 said:
We've had discussions in HT on the inappropriateness of Drag Queen Story Hour for young children but I had to laugh at this, especially in a country where an atheist would never make President and each speech by one concludes with "God bless America."

A district in Utah (north of Salt Lake City.....Mormom land)) has banned the Bible from primary and middle-school classes after a parent complained that it contained too much sex and violence. :LOL: The complainant , who described it to the education authorities (the Davis School Board) as "one of the most sex-ridden books around" citing, incest, prostitution, sodomy and rape, adding that, "You'll no doubt find that the Bible has no serious values for minors because it's pornography by our new definition" . It's not the first time the Bible has been the target of such a complaint. It was temporarily removed from libraries in Texas and Missourri last year. This same Board is also going to get itself into hot water by filing a complaint about the Book of Mormom.(Church of Latter Day Saints).Salt Lake City is the home off Mormons and is one of the most religious states in the US.

Just realised after posting that this is in WCMUT. I meant to put it in the Jokes/Memes thread.Maybe here is ok as it;'s not 'a joke' It's real. :)
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They would just love THIS!!!
 
My mam has a lot of issues to live with but today I gave her a musical jewellery box and to see her face light up was wonderful :D
 
Nod said:
They would just love THIS!!!
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That brought more than a smile to my face. In that link was... "The other is a misprint appearing in Deuteronomy 5:"

This is my own joke..I haven't filched it from anyone... Rather than Deuteronamy..."Due to Ron and me..."...:)
 
Mrs WW came down in her jim jams looking worried and told me there was a spider in the bedroom. Up I went and I couldn't see one. "It went under the bed" she said, so I moved the bed this way and that and couldn't see it and then I spotted a creature near the top of the wall. It was about a 1/4 the size of a house fly. "Is that it?" I asked. "Yes." She said. She'd come dashing downstairs because of a creature 1/4 the size of a house fly.
 
She'd have loved the one that was holding our conservatory door shut when we got home then!
 
W (finally) CMUT
Over months I have mentioned or maybe not,
I have had a Sciurus carolinensis destroying bird feeders, digging up bulbs, digging up tubas,
excavating bonsai pots ( with trees in there) and now it seems my Chinese cherry apple, was under attack.
It was covered in flowers, earlier in the year, and then fruit ( apples the size of cherries)
I couldn't figure out where all the fruit had gone. But now I know who the culprit was.

All I can say is after a week or so of trying, it wont be doing any of that again.
Normally they are suckers for salted peanuts. (KP seems to be the favorite)
But, who'd have thought it was finally out-smarted by using jam as bait?

edited to add, while down the other end of the garden, I noticed that the Hostas in a pot, that I put in there, as the slugs were decimating while they were
in the ground, had been completely excavated, and had leaves chewed off. :(

It was caught no where near these, it'd had obviously been having a party at my expense.
 
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W (finally) CMUT
Over months I have mentioned or maybe not,
I have had a Sciurus carolinensis destroying bird feeders, digging up bulbs, digging up tubas,
excavating bonsai pots ( with trees in there) and now it seems my Chinese cherry apple, was under attack.
It was covered in flowers, earlier in the year, and then fruit ( apples the size of cherries)
I couldn't figure out where all the fruit had gone. But now I know who the culprit was.

All I can say is after a week or so of trying, it wont be doing any of that again.
Normally they are suckers for salted peanuts. (KP seems to be the favorite)
But, who'd have thought it was finally out-smarted by using jam as bait?

edited to add, while down the other end of the garden, I noticed that the Hostas in a pot, that I put in there, as the slugs were decimating while they were
in the ground, had been completely excavated, and had leaves chewed off. :(

It was caught no where near these, it'd had obviously been having a party at my expense.
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Traps re-set as I suspected they may have been 2, I wasn't wrong.
I don't think there is a 3rd, but traps re-set just in case.
 
Tigger.ufo said:
There's usually 2 ...
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These were both adult males...

And tell that to the woman, that lived in a thatched cottage, from where I "removed" 30 in the course of 10 days.
( a personal best)

But then again, there can be only one :D
 
A few weeks ago, I replaced all our seed feeders with fluffy tailed rat-proof ones and now rarely see the grey b'stards. They'll probably come back when the figs are almost ripe - they like them a few days before they're ripe enough for us!!!

WCMUT was a quick run out in Mrs Nod's toy. And lunch!
 
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