Tales of Home [8]

Lancebloke wrote:Ringo - Where is the concert?

Royal Albert Hall (Jackson Browne concert)

Still never been there!

halfwise wrote:the East Coast has just seen the front and back of a small but deep low pressure system: air coming up from the south as it approaches, coming down from the north as it leaves.

which means in laymans terms. U got snow. But only for a bit.

trains a great way to travel, I got to see 4 countries on one trip when I did inter-railing. The only three countries I actually liked enough to go again would be Corfu, Sardinia and Barcelona.

Mrs Figg wrote:

halfwise wrote:the East Coast has just seen the front and back of a small but deep low pressure system: air coming up from the south as it approaches, coming down from the north as it leaves.

which means in laymans terms. U got snow. But only for a bit.

That was actually a response to Eldo's comment about how fast the weather changed...but somehow it found it's way to a different thread.

yeah I heard about the crazy weather you are having. is it snowing in NY?

Got about a foot. No sweat. But almost T-shirt weather yesterday.

WHILE Perth fell short of an all-time rain record it was still very wet with flooding in parts of the city. Officially, around 114mm of rain has fallen since 9am on Thursday.

The previous wettest day ever was recorded on February 9, 1992, when 120.6mm drenched the city.

Today's rainfall will, however, accompany what looks set to be Perth’s coldest February day on record.

The mercury reached only 17.4 degrees yesterday and need only stay below 19 degrees until 9am to enter the record books. At 5.40am, it was 15.2 degrees.


Makes a change from the normal 40 ℃ ☂

What is Perth like Chris? I know plenty if people who have visited Sydney and Melbourne but other big cities over there don't tend to get much of a mention.

You are on the Indian Ocean aren't you?

Yes on the Indian ocean Perth closest City is 3'000 miles away i think, making it the most isolated city in the world. Sydney and Melbourne are brilliant, love going there.

my list is short..

Sweden
Finland
Malaga, Spain (one time)
Budapest, Hungary (one time)
Berlin, Germany (twice)
Krakow, Poland
Prague (very short stay)

most of the european cities, except hungary, was a class-trip with my tenth grade. we visited diferent concentration camps, so my memory is a bit fluffy regards to which countries we went to, there was a lot of bussing,

i haven't traveled much.

That's actually pretty decent for your age, Norc.

Perth looks startlingly well kept.

am i still considered young??

{{You are by me, but then so is everyone under 35. You are in what I like to think of as your 'reckless twenties' as most people in their twenties are a bit reckless in some fashion (I was, extremely so at times). Enjoy the chaos before it resolves naturally into order! }}}

well i cant argue that i am decently reclesss...

The clock resets once you are cut loose from college. In Real-Life years you are still young. I was only half-sure I was grown up through the first 5 years of grad school. When I went back 6 years later it felt a bit different, but I soon learned to think like a grad student again. (hint: if there's any source of calories left out for a seminar, etc, pounce on it like a starving monkey).

{{A light dusting of snow}}

Very pretty.

It's been in the high 60s here lately but we leave for skiing tomorrow. It's been really warm in upstate NY too but apparently it's supposed to get colder and maybe snow on Sunday or Monday so we might end up getting to do a little skiing after all.

Yeah, it will be a lower bed of ice most likely. I did some ice skiing earlier this year and have had my fill.

Moving buildings at work this weekend. No more view from Canary Wharf. I will post my new view when I get a chance to take a picture!

I don't think I like changes anymore. Moving sounds like disharmony to me. I get annoyed when shops swap their aisles about. Are you going far ?

Sometimes there is disharmony that requires a change!

Going about 4 stops along the Jubilee line... probably about 8 miles or something like that.

True

{{Along the shore front. Met a tree.}}



{{And a seagull}}



And, um, these ones whose names escape me! }}





{{And lastly, lurking beak deep in the water, the possibly racist possibly not Jim Crow }}