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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Nickbat on 18 July 2013, 15:10:33
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...but isn't the media going over the top? ::) ::) ::)
Many of us experienced the long hot Summer of 76, yet I don't recall "Heatwave Level 3" alerts, headlines about folks dropping like flies*, and so on.
We just got on and enjoyed it. (I know I did! ;) ;) )
*"Hundreds perish as heatwave takes hold" - today's Times
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EXACTLY :y :y
Some bloody jobs worth with nothing better to do than think up a name for a nice summer. Drought and hosepipe ban anyone ;D ;D ;D ;D
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EXACTLY :y :y
Some bloody jobs worth with nothing better to do than think up a name for a nice summer. Drought and hosepipe ban anyone ;D ;D ;D ;D
Must be on the cards soon, despite the fact that it P*ssed it down incessantly for the first 6 months of the year. ::)
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EXACTLY :y :y
Some bloody jobs worth with nothing better to do than think up a name for a nice summer. Drought and hosepipe ban anyone ;D ;D ;D ;D
Must be on the cards soon, despite the pack that it P*ssed it down incessantly for the first 6 months of the year. ::)
Funny you say that, I went and looked at my water authorities website yesterday (SE Water) just to see if they'd brought one in quietly.. but no, and they're still reporting their reservoirs at 100% & 89% capacity.
Though I still expect one to be announced next week!
As for remembering the long hot summer of '76.. I wasn't even a glimmer in my daddies eye by then ;D
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I remember 76. ;D ;D
I was competing in a UK rally series in my ultra,ultra lightweight Mini Cooper S. Perspex fixed windows (with a "hole" for the navigator), no fan/heater etc etc.
We nearly passed out on one event that used Bagshot.
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EXACTLY :y :y
Some bloody jobs worth with nothing better to do than think up a name for a nice summer. Drought and hosepipe ban anyone ;D ;D ;D ;D
Must be on the cards soon, despite the pack that it P*ssed it down incessantly for the first 6 months of the year. ::)
Funny you say that, I went and looked at my water authorities website yesterday (SE Water) just to see if they'd brought one in quietly.. but no, and they're still reporting their reservoirs at 100% & 89% capacity.
Though I still expect one to be announced next week!
As for remembering the long hot summer of '76.. I wasn't even a glimmer in my daddies eye by then ;D
I'm not sure about down south, but I would have thought it would be the same all over Britain.
The water companies have to be a lot cleverer than they were even 5 or 10 years ago about how the conserve the water supplies.
You wouldnt believe the millions of litres that were lost every year through leakage.
Things should be getting better year upon year.......hopefully.
My wee bro was born in South London in 76, and I was 7 FFS! :-[
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I remember 1976 well - married 2 years, no kids, living in Leigh and playing for Leigh Rugby, several solid pubs on doorstep - during heatwave I was digging out a garage base and remember drinks out there on the hardcore surrounded by piles of soil. I had an MG Midget eventhough I was 6ft 6in and 18 stone. Add 5 stone to that now.
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I was 17 in 76 and have good memories of bunking off college, driving up to cowm park reservoir and sunning/swimming all afternoon with a bunch of mates (& girls oooh). And nobody drowned ::)
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76, we went to padstow for 2 weeks, then the lleyn for 4 weeks.... , came back to school with a better tan than my mates who'd been out to Bahrain , (and other similar middle eastern and oriental sorts of places )
(posh idiot public school , full of ex-pat's kids, amazed i survived more or less intact as a normal person, ish.... )
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The Times?
Stop reading the Mail Express. ;D
Now that paper IS obsessed by the weather. ::)
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Lost my cherry during the long hot summer of '76'..... :y :y
1983 was another hot summer if memory serves. :y :y
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I was back home in Canada back then and can't remember it being hot there.
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I was back home in Canada back then and can't remember it being hot there.
The Yukon rarely is, Kate. ;D ;D ;)
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Lost my cherry during the long hot summer of '76'..... :y :y
1983 was another hot summer if memory serves. :y :y
anyone we know - male/female?
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I remember 76 had a Red Mini which me and a mate painted black, added the LCB exhaust and 6" wide steel 10" wheels and wide tyres, that's what you did in those days....... :y :y :y
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Aye twas hot in 76 , remember throwing straw bales onto a trailer all day for £10 a week :( Those were the days when blisters healed on top of blisters . Then we slept in a shoe box ;D
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I remember 76 had a Red Mini which me and a mate painted black, added the LCB exhaust and 6" wide steel 10" wheels and wide tyres, that's what you did in those days....... :y :y :y
I remember '76 well. I had a Triton 650, which decided to shear the crankshaft. So I ended up cycling to work and back for most of the summer, while I completely rebuilt and resprayed the bike. I just got it back on the road as it started to hiss it down with rain.
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I remember 76 had a Red Mini which me and a mate painted black, added the LCB exhaust and 6" wide steel 10" wheels and wide tyres, that's what you did in those days....... :y :y :y
I remember '76 well. I had a Triton 650, which decided to shear the crankshaft. So I ended up cycling to work and back for most of the summer, while I completely rebuilt and resprayed the bike. I just got it back on the road as it started to hiss it down with rain.
Yes, I seem to remember all the concerns about lack of water in reserve yet all the reservoirs soon filled up once the rain started...... :D :D
I also remember 1995 when HGV were used to move water from the north to the south, working that year, but moving back North and going to Uni in 96 (Mature Student) hoped for a repeat as I have an HGV1 but not to be repeated, my visions of instant wealth were well and truly squashed.... :'( :'( ::)
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I remember 76.Spent most of it thrashing round on motorbikes. Ended up in hospital and go out just before Christmas. ::)
Havent really been right since. ;D
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I remember Grandma setting fire to the hay in the orchard, and then having 3 fire engines turn up to deal with it.
It must be genetic ;D
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I remember Grandma setting fire to the hay in the orchard, and then having 3 fire engines turn up to deal with it.
It must be genetic ;D
I bet she didn't have the big bang though :D :D ;)
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Lost my cherry during the long hot summer of '76'..... :y :y
1983 was another hot summer if memory serves. :y :y
anyone we know - male/female?
It was deffo a girl, I think. ;D ;D
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Well , the weather girlie said its going to be 32deg on monday :o We are so lucky to have decent weather for a change :-X
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Well , the weather girlie said its going to be 32deg on monday :o We are so lucky to have decent weather for a change :-X
Watch out if you have ti lickt road clean wit tongue on Monday. It might stick to it. Best not venture out of your shoebox. Iphone in sick. ;D ;D
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Lost my cherry during the long hot summer of '76'..... :y :y
1983 was another hot summer if memory serves. :y :y
anyone we know - male/female?
It was deffo a girl, I think. ;D ;D
Yes I lost my cherry in a field in the open air in the country - her mother saw us and what did the mother have to say about that?????
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Baaaaaa!! :(
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Well , the weather girlie said its going to be 32deg on monday :o We are so lucky to have decent weather for a change :-X
Watch out if you have ti lickt road clean wit tongue on Monday. It might stick to it. Best not venture out of your shoebox. Iphone in sick. ;D ;D
Correction , its going to reach 35deg on wed :o Just like being in spain :-[
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Well , the weather girlie said its going to be 32deg on monday :o We are so lucky to have decent weather for a change :-X
Watch out if you have ti lickt road clean wit tongue on Monday. It might stick to it. Best not venture out of your shoebox. Iphone in sick. ;D ;D
Correction , its going to reach 35deg on wed :o Just like being in spain :-[
38 in Murcia on weds.
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In Southern Europe it is normal to have 30-40degC in the summer, so I can't see what the fuss is about. I guess a bunch of jobworths who are having a day off from H&S, outreach working or counting how many portions of fruit and veg you have a day and have decided to tell us what is best with our current weather to justify their unjustifiable jobs.
In May when I was in the Ukraine in was 30-34degC virtually every day, but that did not stop me building a bathroom and porch extension, just put on suntan cream for the hottest part of the day and drank plenty of water. After a few days of hard work and plenty of vitamin D production I felt much better than I had in months after last years summer washout and our prolonged cold winter.
On Thursday I was in London for a meeting and rather than get a taxi or the tube, I have very enjoyable 1.5 mile walk from Waterloo station along the Southbank enjoying the views, especially all the women in their summer finary. :) :) :) There was a free bar at the meeting / presentation, which worked very well in quenching my thirst from the brisk walk, followed by a wine tasting session. :) :) :) :) I then went and had a curry with the person that invited me and then walked back to Waterloo station, this along with walking to my local station, walking for our branch line station Farnborough North to Farnborough main line station meant I walked about 7 miles all in all. It might have been 32degC but what is the problem, natures cooling mechanism is that you sweat.