Jax

totally agree and yes I am an early starter (used to have horses, ducks, chickens, sheep etc)

you are arguing the toss over a week before and two/three after, really worth a shift change?

it is all bullocks anyway, changing the clocks does not change the amount of light, I would like to stick with GMT and be done with it. Plenty of jobs now on varied hours, get one of those if 9-5 is not good for you. When one time works for you it does not for another, we get this every year and you just have to adapt and deal with it because nothing you can do about the amount of light and for how long. I do shifts so it means some weeks I get light at the start not the end of my day and switches the next. Unless we get everyone onto the same exact hours and fix that then this will never change. Only way *you* can change it is to get a job and live in a location that offers what you want, this pesky earth keeps spinning, rotating and tilting round the the big round warm glowy thing and not sure there are any plans to change that any time soon.

But we travel at the speed of sound and still stay in on piece and not become sound FTL is what we need, light is not fast enough Mild and not raining here BTW, but inside anyway as there is an abundance of darkness out.

Miss the banter here, comes from trying to please the few not the many I guess. Dull and damp prevails here, earlier I nipped to the local shop for stock cubes and that light drizzle soaked me in just five minutes.

Thought it was a given that volcanos failed emission tests.

Nearly all dry today W00T!

Spot on, why I have not wasted a penny on any of these rags for nearly two decades now. And they wonder why sales are falling? go figure.

Sunshine, some cloud and after the run of cool, cloudy and wet days it is most welcome.

Seen a few, by that about three or four a week, none in the home this year and only out and about where park picnic areas or bins have been close by, certainly feel they have been in reduced numbers that I have seen for two or three years running now.

Maybe but then again we used to burn coal and wood enmasse until the smogs killed many, so that was regulated to clean the air up, motorised carriges replaced horses, it cleaned up the streets but then polluted the air, we used lead in pipes, paint, petrol and childrens figures, then we found out that was bad and lets not forget how 'great' asbestos was until the 80's All in the recent time frame, think the original excitement of diesel like nuclear being the wonder fuel of the future was thought to be great until the actual problems came to light which only tend to when they get used by many in real world situations, you can test away in the lab but the real world has a habit of only finding the unthought, unseen problems someone in a white coat had not.

wet, damp and moist, might be raining.

Just one duvet here, when it is warm I sleep on it, cooler under it and when the cold sets in I chuck a fleece throw over the top.

I predict some mild and cold periods, with episodes of wet and dry conditions, there may be spells where it is windy. cats and dogs may be encountered from time to time.

If you see the BBC online I see at work (which is the global version) it is now very similar to the UK version, it never used to be, my guess is they are merging into just one single entity, this includes source information at a guess. Also regular viewers of BBC news channel can not have noticed the extra global content now being shown, it used to be UK version and the RotW, Open Source for example. The global version used to be blocked by them in the UK, it is not any more so WWW.BBC.COM/capital WWW.BBC.COM/future WWW.BBC.COM/culture WWW.BBC.COM/autos etc all now work in the UK. They are changing their model and going global IMHO with a single thrust.

So nothing new then, all stuff that has been going on in one form or another for a long time and well known about. Now scary stuff is mad nutters getting their hands on things like WMD and setting them off in populated areas.

I remember that for you Moki, last year I think? Been along the I15 when forest fires were raging along side, no detour for me as we managed to get through just before they shut the road an hour or so later.

A few storms, little rain, lots of warm days and quite a lot of sunshine... ...really do not see what people are moaning about, been a good summer (did not say great).

Could have been a middle part of a backbone network some users were crossing that was slow, that tends to play havoc with java based net applications, doing forced refreshes then restarts a new instance but often leaves the old one running (hence the post duplication). Next time it happens try a trace route from a command shell/prompt depending on your operating system to see where the bottle neck is. example traceroute to netweather.tv (104.20.21.79) you can see the jump times in bold below (if one is high there is the possible problem) 4 * * * 5 * * * 6 nrth-bb-1b-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.254.42.130) 30.018 ms 32.190 ms 22.427 ms 7 tele-ic-4-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.253.174.18) 22.072 ms 21.447 ms 26.395 ms 8 linx-juniper.as13335.net (195.66.225.179) 41.875 ms 42.349 ms 42.647 ms 9 104.20.21.79 (104.20.21.79) 34.680 ms 34.213 ms 39.620 ms

Cannot see any clouds here at this time in my locale

guessed that but was hoping to pull a dog mild/humid here, dry and calm with loads of cloud again.

It is Stick night?

No need for the dance, weekend is already looking moist Sat and through Sun, the warmth is nice it is the humidity that will get you.

Rain finally sodded off here, not heavy but irritating, mild and humid though. gonna be a restless night again due to heat and humidity, windows open to let the air pass.

really? crikey I am still just decent above the base coat.