Just been for my evening stroll - not a cloud in the sky and as warm as 
   an evening in June or July. Can't help wishing it was always like 
this in this country!

"Maria"  wrote in message
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> Just been for my evening stroll - not a cloud in the sky and as warm as
>    an evening in June or July. Can't help wishing it was always like
> this in this country!

I'm currently suffering a cold, an unusually bad one. I normally get away
with just a few sniffles, bit of headache etc.
However this time I have the works...including a sky high fever (well, ok
it's not sky high...just about a degree and a half above my norm).
But the unusually warm weather is making it worse.
Sweating like a cu....erm I mean like a pig!
I've been in shorts and t-shirt all day!!!

A few more days like this though, and the bastard energy companies will be
raising their prices again.....they'll have factored in a much greater level
of usage than they are currently getting (from me at least).

On 12 Oct, 22:34, Maria  wrote:
> Just been for my evening stroll - not a cloud in the sky and as warm as
>    an evening in June or July. Can't help wishing it was always like
> this in this country!


If it was what would we talk about at uncomfortable moments in
lifts? ;-) It is so gorgeous where I now live as there are so many
trees and woods – you get to see the changing seasons which we are
lucky to have here! (some places in the world just have dry and hot!).
We are very lucky that we do not live in a country like Bangladesh
where 2/3 of the country is regularly flooded and bad weather means
going hungry!

"onlyme"  wrote in message 
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>
> "Maria"  wrote in message
> news:-6ednSKY4u2j8G_VnZ2dnUVZ8judnZ2d@bt.com...
>> Just been for my evening stroll - not a cloud in the sky and as warm as
>>    an evening in June or July. Can't help wishing it was always like
>> this in this country!
>
> I'm currently suffering a cold, an unusually bad one. I normally get away
> with just a few sniffles, bit of headache etc.
> However this time I have the works...including a sky high fever (well, ok
> it's not sky high...just about a degree and a half above my norm).
> But the unusually warm weather is making it worse.
> Sweating like a cu....

...like a fat lass in a disco?

> erm I mean like a pig!
> I've been in shorts and t-shirt all day!!!
>
> A few more days like this though, and the bastard energy companies will be
> raising their prices again.....they'll have factored in a much greater 
> level
> of usage than they are currently getting (from me at least).
>
>
>
>

wrote in message
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>We are very lucky that we do not live in a country like Bangladesh
>where 2/3 of the country is regularly flooded and bad weather means
>going hungry!


The ancient Egyptians coped quite well....

"DVH"  wrote in message
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>
> "onlyme"  wrote in message
> news:QdqdnajBRf9u72_VnZ2dnUVZ8uqdnZ2d@bt.com...
> >
> > "Maria"  wrote in message
> > news:-6ednSKY4u2j8G_VnZ2dnUVZ8judnZ2d@bt.com...
> >> Just been for my evening stroll - not a cloud in the sky and as warm as
> >>    an evening in June or July. Can't help wishing it was always like
> >> this in this country!
> >
> > I'm currently suffering a cold, an unusually bad one. I normally get
away
> > with just a few sniffles, bit of headache etc.
> > However this time I have the works...including a sky high fever (well,
ok
> > it's not sky high...just about a degree and a half above my norm).
> > But the unusually warm weather is making it worse.
> > Sweating like a cu....
>
> ...like a fat lass in a disco?
>


Exactly!
LOL

"Maria"  wrote in message 
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> Just been for my evening stroll - not a cloud in the sky and as warm as an 
> evening in June or July. Can't help wishing it was always like this in 
> this country!

London was stunning today. The plane trees and lindens are seventeen 
different colours. Endless blue sky and everyone out on the pavement cafés. 
There was a hush though, as if people were waiting for something to happen.

"DVH"  wrote in message
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>
> "Maria"  wrote in message
> news:-6ednSKY4u2j8G_VnZ2dnUVZ8judnZ2d@bt.com...
> > Just been for my evening stroll - not a cloud in the sky and as warm as
an
> > evening in June or July. Can't help wishing it was always like this in
> > this country!
>
> London was stunning today. The plane trees and lindens are seventeen
> different colours. Endless blue sky and everyone out on the pavement
cafés.
> There was a hush though, as if people were waiting for something to
happen.
>
>

People certainly aren't behaving 'as normal'
We were out and about this afternoon....usually I'm busy cursing all those
sunday shoppers, clogging up the roads with their trips to b&q etc....not
the roads were eerily quiet.
Still busy....but dead, compared to the usual on a sunday.
I wonder if many are planing a trip to the bank tomorrow.....fill up a few
socks...just in case!

On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:32:53 +0100, "onlyme" 
wrote:

>
>"DVH"  wrote in message
>news:48f27903$0$513$bed64819@news.gradwell.net...
>>
>> "Maria"  wrote in message
>> news:-6ednSKY4u2j8G_VnZ2dnUVZ8judnZ2d@bt.com...
>> > Just been for my evening stroll - not a cloud in the sky and as warm as
>an
>> > evening in June or July. Can't help wishing it was always like this in
>> > this country!
>>
>> London was stunning today. The plane trees and lindens are seventeen
>> different colours. Endless blue sky and everyone out on the pavement
>cafés.
>> There was a hush though, as if people were waiting for something to
>happen.
>>
>>
>
>People certainly aren't behaving 'as normal'
>We were out and about this afternoon....usually I'm busy cursing all those
>sunday shoppers, clogging up the roads with their trips to b&q etc....not
>the roads were eerily quiet.
>Still busy....but dead, compared to the usual on a sunday.
>I wonder if many are planing a trip to the bank tomorrow.....fill up a few
>socks...just in case!
>
Agree about the weather today - just wonderful here in E mids. The
best day in many a month.
Traffic not so nice though - the usual road-loads.

On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:17:01 +0100, "onlyme" 
wrote:

>
> wrote in message
>news:8be42fe1-10e7-455b-aa0c-68c0e3d2fecb@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
>>We are very lucky that we do not live in a country like Bangladesh
>>where 2/3 of the country is regularly flooded and bad weather means
>>going hungry!
>
>
>The ancient Egyptians coped quite well....
>

Was was that 7 years of famine bit in Jacob & his Itchy-nickers
dreamcoat about then ?

Derek

"Derek Geldard"  wrote in message
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> On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:17:01 +0100, "onlyme" 
> wrote:
>
> >
> > wrote in message
> >news:8be42fe1-10e7-455b-aa0c-68c0e3d2fecb@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> >>We are very lucky that we do not live in a country like Bangladesh
> >>where 2/3 of the country is regularly flooded and bad weather means
> >>going hungry!
> >
> >
> >The ancient Egyptians coped quite well....
> >
>
> Was was that 7 years of famine bit in Jacob & his Itchy-nickers
> dreamcoat about then ?
>
> Derek
>


Well, I'm referring to the entire nile delta flooding annually.
They seemed to cope with it...in fact they counted on it.
Any famine would have probable been the result of lack of floods....

On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:34:09 +0100, Maria 
wrote:

>Just been for my evening stroll - not a cloud in the sky and as warm as 
>   an evening in June or July. Can't help wishing it was always like 
>this in this country!

Last week some forecaster or other said that we were due for a very
mild winter overall, so perhaps this warm front is the beginning. I
hope so, as it saves a fortune on heating. Two nights running I've had
my bedroom windows open. In October!

MM

On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:58:05 +0100, "onlyme" 
wrote:

>
>"Maria"  wrote in message
>news:-6ednSKY4u2j8G_VnZ2dnUVZ8judnZ2d@bt.com...
>> Just been for my evening stroll - not a cloud in the sky and as warm as
>>    an evening in June or July. Can't help wishing it was always like
>> this in this country!
>
>I'm currently suffering a cold, an unusually bad one. I normally get away
>with just a few sniffles, bit of headache etc.
>However this time I have the works...including a sky high fever (well, ok
>it's not sky high...just about a degree and a half above my norm).

That sounds more like the flu to me, not a simple cold. Treat it as
flu. Flu ~can~ be dangerous.

>But the unusually warm weather is making it worse.
>Sweating like a cu....erm I mean like a pig!
>I've been in shorts and t-shirt all day!!!

On the other hand, the reason you're sweating is the part of the
body's natural defence mechanism. Maybe sweating is best - to get the
virus (which is what colds and flu are) out of the system. Also, the
old adage goes: "Feed a cold and starve a fever". I find beef "tea"
made with a spoonful of Bovril in boiling water is a great help. Also,
paracetamol, but NOT TOO FREQUENTLY!

>A few more days like this though, and the bastard energy companies will be
>raising their prices again.....they'll have factored in a much greater level
>of usage than they are currently getting (from me at least).

Dunno whether you use domestic heating oil, but it has plummeted over
the past week. This morning it's 45.79 pence a litre, plus VAT.
Cheapest since February.

MM

On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:23:57 +0100, "DVH"  wrote:

>
>"Maria"  wrote in message 
>news:-6ednSKY4u2j8G_VnZ2dnUVZ8judnZ2d@bt.com...
>> Just been for my evening stroll - not a cloud in the sky and as warm as an 
>> evening in June or July. Can't help wishing it was always like this in 
>> this country!
>
>London was stunning today. The plane trees and lindens are seventeen 
>different colours. Endless blue sky and everyone out on the pavement cafés. 
>There was a hush though, as if people were waiting for something to happen. 

They're waiting for the Hubris Bus to turn up. Sooner or later, Hazel
Blears will be popping up on news channels everywhere to claim
Gordon's world leadership in the "rescue" of the global economy.

MM

"MM"  wrote in message
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> On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:58:05 +0100, "onlyme" 
> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Maria"  wrote in message
> >news:-6ednSKY4u2j8G_VnZ2dnUVZ8judnZ2d@bt.com...
> >> Just been for my evening stroll - not a cloud in the sky and as warm as
> >>    an evening in June or July. Can't help wishing it was always like
> >> this in this country!
> >
> >I'm currently suffering a cold, an unusually bad one. I normally get away
> >with just a few sniffles, bit of headache etc.
> >However this time I have the works...including a sky high fever (well, ok
> >it's not sky high...just about a degree and a half above my norm).
>
> That sounds more like the flu to me, not a simple cold. Treat it as
> flu. Flu ~can~ be dangerous.
>


I don't think it's flu....feeling better today - will probably feel crap
later. That's classic cold symptoms for me.
None of the aching all over that comes with flu.

I heared that there are only around 200 cold viruses, and that once you've
had one, you are quite immune to getting it as bad again...or any very
'similar' strain.
Hence the older you get, the less colds you get (apparently)
There are only a fairly regular percentage of the possible 200+ in common
circulations.

This has come from my kids though (I'm bloody sure of it!) - via school.
They had a couple of days off last week - but seemed to recover fairly
quick.

But apparently loads of kids from the school have been absent with bad
colds...
And as the parents of half of the kids...let's say the darker' half.....seem
to be regularly overseas (or 'going home' ...as they like to put it!!!) I'm
wondering if there isn't a strain doing the rounds that most have not
encountered before!



> >But the unusually warm weather is making it worse.
> >Sweating like a cu....erm I mean like a pig!
> >I've been in shorts and t-shirt all day!!!
>
> On the other hand, the reason you're sweating is the part of the
> body's natural defence mechanism. Maybe sweating is best - to get the
> virus (which is what colds and flu are) out of the system. Also, the
> old adage goes: "Feed a cold and starve a fever". I find beef "tea"
> made with a spoonful of Bovril in boiling water is a great help. Also,
> paracetamol, but NOT TOO FREQUENTLY!


I'm always somewhat reassured - If I'm unwell.and see a temperature rise. As
you say, it's the body's defences kicking in - and it's quite comforting to
know you haven't got some immune disorder.
Always reluctant to go to the quacks though - I've  gone there before
feeling 'a bit off' and a few days later felt like absolute crap lol - God
knows how many viruses must be airbourne in such places!
Same with hospitals....I'm even reluctant to visit people!!


>
> >A few more days like this though, and the bastard energy companies will
be
> >raising their prices again.....they'll have factored in a much greater
level
> >of usage than they are currently getting (from me at least).
>
> Dunno whether you use domestic heating oil, but it has plummeted over
> the past week. This morning it's 45.79 pence a litre, plus VAT.
> Cheapest since February.


Gas here...

Recently gone onto their price-hiked duel fuel fixed price till end of 2011
tarrif - as I seriously expected more price hikes in the pipeline...
But I won't be please in the price comes down lol.

onlyme wrote:
> "Maria"  wrote in message
> news:-6ednSKY4u2j8G_VnZ2dnUVZ8judnZ2d@bt.com...
>> Just been for my evening stroll - not a cloud in the sky and as warm as
>>    an evening in June or July. Can't help wishing it was always like
>> this in this country!
> 
> I'm currently suffering a cold, an unusually bad one. I normally get away
> with just a few sniffles, bit of headache etc.
> However this time I have the works...including a sky high fever (well, ok
> it's not sky high...just about a degree and a half above my norm).
> But the unusually warm weather is making it worse.
> Sweating like a cu....erm I mean like a pig!
> I've been in shorts and t-shirt all day!!!

I've had that bug for about three weeks now. Swollen glands, bad chest, 
now a stomach bug is going around. I've not been able to stand up 
properly for a few days (vertigo). I suppose one good thing about 
prolonged cold snaps is that it kills bugs...

> 
> A few more days like this though, and the bastard energy companies will be
> raising their prices again.....they'll have factored in a much greater level
> of usage than they are currently getting (from me at least).
> 

I don't care anymore - I'll just switch it all off and use nothing.

DVH wrote:
> "Maria"  wrote in message 
> news:-6ednSKY4u2j8G_VnZ2dnUVZ8judnZ2d@bt.com...
>> Just been for my evening stroll - not a cloud in the sky and as warm as an 
>> evening in June or July. Can't help wishing it was always like this in 
>> this country!
> 
> London was stunning today. The plane trees and lindens are seventeen 
> different colours. Endless blue sky and everyone out on the pavement cafés. 

We've had a few days like that (minus the pavement cafes - out here in 
pooland you are not allowed to put tables on pavements because they are 
an obstruction), but last night was weird because at this time of year, 
it's usually cold at night even if it was warm in the day.

> There was a hush though, as if people were waiting for something to happen. 

The sky to fall in probably!

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:50:38 +0100, "onlyme" 
wrote:

>
>"MM"  wrote in message
>news:ab46f4tntpeqc24tmh1htfse48eaqrip4c@4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:58:05 +0100, "onlyme" 
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >"Maria"  wrote in message
>> >news:-6ednSKY4u2j8G_VnZ2dnUVZ8judnZ2d@bt.com...
>> >> Just been for my evening stroll - not a cloud in the sky and as warm as
>> >>    an evening in June or July. Can't help wishing it was always like
>> >> this in this country!
>> >
>> >I'm currently suffering a cold, an unusually bad one. I normally get away
>> >with just a few sniffles, bit of headache etc.
>> >However this time I have the works...including a sky high fever (well, ok
>> >it's not sky high...just about a degree and a half above my norm).
>>
>> That sounds more like the flu to me, not a simple cold. Treat it as
>> flu. Flu ~can~ be dangerous.
>>
>
>
>I don't think it's flu....feeling better today - will probably feel crap
>later. That's classic cold symptoms for me.
>None of the aching all over that comes with flu.

Yeah, that's usually a sign. The last time I had the flu I felt I was
at death's door. I was almost at the point of dialling NHS Direct. Now
I'm old enough to get the flu jab for free. So, touch wood, I've been
free of flu for two years and haven't had a cold either in the past
couple of years. But maybe living where I do in a sparsely populated
part of the country I don't come into contact with thousands of
passers-by all coughing and sneezing. Also, I was born in 1946, so a
few months later, still an infant, I had to endure one of the worst
winters ever experienced in Britain. I reckon that's bound to harden
one off a bit, since we had only a coal fire in the living room and a
range in the kitchen. I certainly don't seem to feel the cold like
some do, and of course nowadays winters are like the Riviera compared
to 1947 when the Thames actually froze.

>I heared that there are only around 200 cold viruses, and that once you've
>had one, you are quite immune to getting it as bad again...or any very
>'similar' strain.
>Hence the older you get, the less colds you get (apparently)
>There are only a fairly regular percentage of the possible 200+ in common
>circulations.
>
>This has come from my kids though (I'm bloody sure of it!) - via school.
>They had a couple of days off last week - but seemed to recover fairly
>quick.
>
>But apparently loads of kids from the school have been absent with bad
>colds...
>And as the parents of half of the kids...let's say the darker' half.....seem
>to be regularly overseas (or 'going home' ...as they like to put it!!!) I'm
>wondering if there isn't a strain doing the rounds that most have not
>encountered before!
>
>
>
>> >But the unusually warm weather is making it worse.
>> >Sweating like a cu....erm I mean like a pig!
>> >I've been in shorts and t-shirt all day!!!
>>
>> On the other hand, the reason you're sweating is the part of the
>> body's natural defence mechanism. Maybe sweating is best - to get the
>> virus (which is what colds and flu are) out of the system. Also, the
>> old adage goes: "Feed a cold and starve a fever". I find beef "tea"
>> made with a spoonful of Bovril in boiling water is a great help. Also,
>> paracetamol, but NOT TOO FREQUENTLY!
>
>
>I'm always somewhat reassured - If I'm unwell.and see a temperature rise. As
>you say, it's the body's defences kicking in - and it's quite comforting to
>know you haven't got some immune disorder.
>Always reluctant to go to the quacks though - I've  gone there before
>feeling 'a bit off' and a few days later felt like absolute crap lol - God
>knows how many viruses must be airbourne in such places!
>Same with hospitals....I'm even reluctant to visit people!!

That is true. The surgery waiting room must be a boiling inferno of
virii if one could see them in the air. Beats me how doctors manage to
survive.

>>
>> >A few more days like this though, and the bastard energy companies will
>be
>> >raising their prices again.....they'll have factored in a much greater
>level
>> >of usage than they are currently getting (from me at least).
>>
>> Dunno whether you use domestic heating oil, but it has plummeted over
>> the past week. This morning it's 45.79 pence a litre, plus VAT.
>> Cheapest since February.
>
>
>Gas here...
>
>Recently gone onto their price-hiked duel fuel fixed price till end of 2011
>tarrif - as I seriously expected more price hikes in the pipeline...
>But I won't be please in the price comes down lol.

I have wondered why there isn't general public outcry for the fuel
companies to start considering a price drop as crude has fallen such a
lot in the past few weeks and gas appears to be pegged to the price of
crude. Maybe yet another missive to my MP will be in order. You can
bet that the fuel companies will not do a dickey bird until the public
browbeat them, just as it's taken a fair bit of persuasion to sack
Fred the Shred from RBS. Even then, I've heard he will get a £580,000
pension. 

MM

> Any famine would have probable been the result of lack of floods....


DERRRR!!!

On 13 Oct, 01:22, "onlyme"  wrote:
> "Derek Geldard"  wrote in message
>
> news:2k35f4p4l3iaji3bg3q47knt7hj9af7afu@4ax.com...
>
>
>
> > On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:17:01 +0100, "onlyme" 
> > wrote:
>
> > > wrote in message
> > >news:8be42fe1-10e7-455b-aa0c-68c0e3d2fecb@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> > >>We are very lucky that we do not live in a country like Bangladesh
> > >>where 2/3 of the country is regularly flooded and bad weather means
> > >>going hungry!
>
> > >The ancient Egyptians coped quite well....
>
> > Was was that 7 years of famine bit in Jacob & his Itchy-nickers
> > dreamcoat about then ?
>
> > Derek
>
> Well, I'm referring to the entire nile delta flooding annually.
> They seemed to cope with it...in fact they counted on it.
> Any famine would have probable been the result of lack of floods....


Yeah quite likely, doesn't the Delta in Bangladesh flood more often
than once a year though?

wrote in message
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>
> > Any famine would have probable been the result of lack of floods....
>
>
> DERRRR!!!

Oy!
You cited Bangladesh as suffering famine due to floods and bad weather.
I pointed out that floods and bad weather don't cause famine.
So don't 'derrr' me!

On 13 Oct, 18:28, "onlyme"  wrote:
>  wrote in message
>
> news:8cabc4c4-b50c-4488-a865-eb4d2204c030@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > > Any famine would have probable been the result of lack of floods....
>
> > DERRRR!!!
>
> Oy!

Sorry Onlyme, I deleted my message (on Google at least) as soon as I
clicked send as I responded in haste and realised I'd misread "flood"
as "food"!!! :-/

> You cited Bangladesh as suffering famine due to floods and bad weather.
> I pointed out that floods and bad weather don't cause famine.
> So don't 'derrr' me!

wrote in message
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> On 13 Oct, 01:22, "onlyme"  wrote:
> > "Derek Geldard"  wrote in message
> >
> > news:2k35f4p4l3iaji3bg3q47knt7hj9af7afu@4ax.com...
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:17:01 +0100, "onlyme" 
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > > wrote in message
> > >
>news:8be42fe1-10e7-455b-aa0c-68c0e3d2fecb@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> > > >>We are very lucky that we do not live in a country like Bangladesh
> > > >>where 2/3 of the country is regularly flooded and bad weather means
> > > >>going hungry!
> >
> > > >The ancient Egyptians coped quite well....
> >
> > > Was was that 7 years of famine bit in Jacob & his Itchy-nickers
> > > dreamcoat about then ?
> >
> > > Derek
> >
> > Well, I'm referring to the entire nile delta flooding annually.
> > They seemed to cope with it...in fact they counted on it.
> > Any famine would have probable been the result of lack of floods....
>
>
> Yeah quite likely, doesn't the Delta in Bangladesh flood more often
> than once a year though?

Does it?
Or are you just assuming it does...to prop up a piss poor argument?
Do some research...

Alternately, don't bother...far easier to just keep on believing the crap
the bbc spew out....
You keep right on 'giving' to those charities....if it makes you feel better
as a person.
(and pay no attention to the awkward fact that your donations are more than
likely sitting in high interest offshore accounts, earning ££££££'s in
interest for the charities 'directors'.

I can also provide some links to some american evangelist websites if you're
really stuck for what to spend your money on?

wrote in message
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> On 13 Oct, 18:28, "onlyme"  wrote:
> >  wrote in message
> >
> >
news:8cabc4c4-b50c-4488-a865-eb4d2204c030@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> >
> >
> >
> > > > Any famine would have probable been the result of lack of floods....
> >
> > > DERRRR!!!
> >
> > Oy!
>
> Sorry Onlyme, I deleted my message (on Google at least) as soon as I
> clicked send as I responded in haste and realised I'd misread "flood"
> as "food"!!! :-/


OK, lol..np

On 13 Oct, 18:34, "onlyme"  wrote:
>  wrote in message
>
> news:09b5e41c-e764-4e90-9ce6-79e41b926baa@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > On 13 Oct, 01:22, "onlyme"  wrote:
> > > "Derek Geldard"  wrote in message
>
> > >news:2k35f4p4l3iaji3bg3q47knt7hj9af7afu@4ax.com...
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> > > > On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:17:01 퍝, "onlyme" 
> > > > wrote:
>
> > > > > wrote in message
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> >news:8be42fe1-10e7-455b-aa0c-68c0e3d2fecb@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com..> > > > >>We are very lucky that we do not live in a country like Bangladesh
> > > > >>where 2/3 of the country is regularly flooded and bad weather means
> > > > >>going hungry!
>
> > > > >The ancient Egyptians coped quite well....
>
> > > > Was was that 7 years of famine bit in Jacob & his Itchy-nickers
> > > > dreamcoat about then ?
>
> > > > Derek
>
> > > Well, I'm referring to the entire nile delta flooding annually.
> > > They seemed to cope with it...in fact they counted on it.
> > > Any famine would have probable been the result of lack of floods....
>
> > Yeah quite likely, doesn't the Delta in Bangladesh flood more often
> > than once a year though?
>
> Does it?
> Or are you just assuming it does...to prop up a piss poor argument?
> Do some research...
>
> Alternately, don't bother...far easier to just keep on believing the crap
> the bbc spew out....
> You keep right on 'giving' to those charities....if it makes you feel better
> as a person.
> (and pay no attention to the awkward fact that your donations are more than
> likely sitting in high interest offshore accounts, earning ££££££'s in
> interest for the charities 'directors'.
> I can also provide some links to some american evangelist websites if you're
> really stuck for what to spend your money on?

Nobody raised the subject of how charitable you should be - that is a
personal thing. I was just looking on the positive side of the British
weather which can be pretty miserable at times lets face it?

Today was another lovely day though - I went walking in the woods! :-)

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>Today was another lovely day though - I went walking in the woods! :-)

In the UK, it's known as 'dogging'.
:-)

Maria wrote:
> Just been for my evening stroll - not a cloud in the sky and as warm as 
>   an evening in June or July. Can't help wishing it was always like this 
> in this country!


Excellent timing for someone to have a weekend break ;)