Patrick Wallace

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There was bad flooding in parts of south and east Yorkshire, around
Doncaster and Hull, not Cumbria. A lot of people have a lot of work to
do, but the area's hardly closed to visitors!

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 07:55:32 -0500, Dan Stephenson
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Hello, I am travelling to Britain in the beginning of September,
>planning to visit Yorkshire and Cumbria. Has the flooding been a
>problem there? My own internet research doesn't come up with a map of
>affected areas. RSVP,
>--
>Dan Stephenson
>Photos, movies, panos from the Europe, USA, plus N.Z.:
>http://homepage.mac.com/stepheda
>
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>

Mike O'Sullivan

David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote:
> Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 14:10:39 +0100, [email protected] (David Horne, _the_
>> chancellor (*)) wrote:
>>
>>> Dan Stephenson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2007-08-09 07:59:37 -0500, [email protected] (David Horne, _the_
>>>> chancellor (*)) said:
>>>>
>>>>> Dan Stephenson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello, I am travelling to Britain in the beginning of September,
>>>>>> planning to visit Yorkshire and Cumbria. Has the flooding been a
>>>>>> problem there? My own internet research doesn't come up with a map of
>>>>>> affected areas. RSVP,
>>>>> There was flooding in some parts of Yorkshire. Everything is pretty much
>>>>> back to normal, at least from the point of view of a visitor.
>>>> Thanks, that's good news.
>>>>
>>>> Let's hope the rains won't affect the blackberry harvest this
>>> September. :-)
>>>
>>> That's a good question. On some of our walks recently, it seems the
>>> blackberries are a lot less further on than they were in recent years.
>> That's odd we have been eating them already.
>
> In the wild? I assumed that's what he was talking about. You can easily
> get the greenhouse grown ones in the supermarket of course.
>
Yes, I picked a handful (in Surrey) from a bramble over a week ago. Big
ones too. Went into a apple pie.

William Black

"Dan Stephenson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:2007080907553216807-stephedanospam@maccom...
> Hello, I am travelling to Britain in the beginning of September, planning
> to visit Yorkshire and Cumbria. Has the flooding been a problem there?
> My own internet research doesn't come up with a map of affected areas.
> RSVP,

Hull was the hardest hit.

I was in town the day it happened.

All the roads were reopened within three days.

None of the major tourist attraction in Yorkshire were affected except small
parts of Pickering where a bridge was damaged.

By the time you get here it should all be long over and almost forgotten.

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

David Horne

mike o'sullivan <[email protected]> wrote:

> David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote:
> > Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 14:10:39 +0100, [email protected] (David Horne, _the_
> >> chancellor (*)) wrote:
[]
> >>> That's a good question. On some of our walks recently, it seems the
> >>> blackberries are a lot less further on than they were in recent years.
> >> That's odd we have been eating them already.
> >
> > In the wild? I assumed that's what he was talking about. You can easily
> > get the greenhouse grown ones in the supermarket of course.
> >
> Yes, I picked a handful (in Surrey) from a bramble over a week ago.

Not here for sure.

--
(*) ... of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate
http://www.davidhorne.net - real address on website
"Abominable, loyal, blind, apparently subservient."
Pres. Carter on Ex-Pres. Blair- May, 2007

-Martin

On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:20:45 GMT, "William Black" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>"Dan Stephenson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:2007080907553216807-stephedanospam@maccom...
>> Hello, I am travelling to Britain in the beginning of September, planning
>> to visit Yorkshire and Cumbria. Has the flooding been a problem there?
>> My own internet research doesn't come up with a map of affected areas.
>> RSVP,
>
>Hull was the hardest hit.
>
> I was in town the day it happened.
>
>All the roads were reopened within three days.
>
>None of the major tourist attraction in Yorkshire were affected except small
>parts of Pickering where a bridge was damaged.

I didn't know that. In all the griping I have seen about how yet again Pickering
has been ignored/forgoten nobody mentioned a damaged bridge.
--

Martin

William Black

"Martin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:20:45 GMT, "William Black"
> <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Dan Stephenson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:2007080907553216807-stephedanospam@maccom...
>>> Hello, I am travelling to Britain in the beginning of September,
>>> planning
>>> to visit Yorkshire and Cumbria. Has the flooding been a problem there?
>>> My own internet research doesn't come up with a map of affected areas.
>>> RSVP,
>>
>>Hull was the hardest hit.
>>
>> I was in town the day it happened.
>>
>>All the roads were reopened within three days.
>>
>>None of the major tourist attraction in Yorkshire were affected except
>>small
>>parts of Pickering where a bridge was damaged.
>
> I didn't know that. In all the griping I have seen about how yet again
> Pickering
> has been ignored/forgoten nobody mentioned a damaged bridge.

Pickering centre was seriously wet.

Debris washed down stream seems to have smashed into a small bridge on a not
very important road and the people who live down the road aren't happy that
they've got to walk home instead driving their shopping laden motor cars
into their drive for a month or so.

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

-Martin

On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:28:53 GMT, "William Black" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>"Martin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected].. .
>> On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:20:45 GMT, "William Black"
>> <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Dan Stephenson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>news:2007080907553216807-stephedanospam@maccom...
>>>> Hello, I am travelling to Britain in the beginning of September,
>>>> planning
>>>> to visit Yorkshire and Cumbria. Has the flooding been a problem there?
>>>> My own internet research doesn't come up with a map of affected areas.
>>>> RSVP,
>>>
>>>Hull was the hardest hit.
>>>
>>> I was in town the day it happened.
>>>
>>>All the roads were reopened within three days.
>>>
>>>None of the major tourist attraction in Yorkshire were affected except
>>>small
>>>parts of Pickering where a bridge was damaged.
>>
>> I didn't know that. In all the griping I have seen about how yet again
>> Pickering
>> has been ignored/forgoten nobody mentioned a damaged bridge.
>
>Pickering centre was seriously wet.

For the sixth time in seven years.

I saw it on TV and in the local paper.

>
>Debris washed down stream seems to have smashed into a small bridge on a not
>very important road and the people who live down the road aren't happy that
>they've got to walk home instead driving their shopping laden motor cars
>into their drive for a month or so.

and the bridge between the car park and the supermarket?
--

Martin

William Black

"Martin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:28:53 GMT, "William Black"
> <[email protected]>
> wrote:

>>Debris washed down stream seems to have smashed into a small bridge on a
>>not
>>very important road and the people who live down the road aren't happy
>>that
>>they've got to walk home instead driving their shopping laden motor cars
>>into their drive for a month or so.
>
> and the bridge between the car park and the supermarket?

No idea.

The only time I go into Pickering is to the incredibly cheap auctions at
Bolton and Cooper's auction house there...

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

Jim Ley

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 14:30:06 +0100, [email protected] (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

>Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >That's a good question. On some of our walks recently, it seems the
>> >blackberries are a lot less further on than they were in recent years.
>>
>> That's odd we have been eating them already.
>
>In the wild? I assumed that's what he was talking about. You can easily
>get the greenhouse grown ones in the supermarket of course.

They're around in the hedgerows near me.

Jim.

Dan Stephenson

On 2007-08-09 08:30:06 -0500, [email protected] (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) said:

>>> That's a good question. On some of our walks recently, it seems the
>>> blackberries are a lot less further on than they were in recent years.
>>
>> That's odd we have been eating them already.
>
> In the wild? I assumed that's what he was talking about. You can easily
> get the greenhouse grown ones in the supermarket of course.

Well when I visited south England last year in the last two weeks of
September, the crop was somewhat over-ripe. So I planned for the first
two weeks of September, this year.

Do other countries in Europe have this wild blackberry hedge phenomenon
like Britain does? I don't even recall Ireland having them from my
trip there. At least I don't remember them. I remember bog though,
whew, lots and lots of blanket bog creeping up the hills.
--
Dan Stephenson
Photos, movies, panos from the Europe, USA, plus N.Z.:
http://homepage.mac.com/stepheda

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David Horne

Dan Stephenson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2007-08-09 08:30:06 -0500, [email protected] (David Horne, _the_
> chancellor (*)) said:
>
> >>> That's a good question. On some of our walks recently, it seems the
> >>> blackberries are a lot less further on than they were in recent years.
> >>
> >> That's odd we have been eating them already.
> >
> > In the wild? I assumed that's what he was talking about. You can easily
> > get the greenhouse grown ones in the supermarket of course.
>
> Well when I visited south England last year in the last two weeks of
> September, the crop was somewhat over-ripe. So I planned for the first
> two weeks of September, this year.

That will probably be fine for the north of England. It's just later
than it has been in recent years (by now they'd be quite ripe), but
those were warmer than usual summers...

--
(*) ... of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate
http://www.davidhorne.net - real address on website
"Abominable, loyal, blind, apparently subservient."
Pres. Carter on Ex-Pres. Blair- May, 2007

Terry Richards

"Dan Stephenson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:2007081212002016807-stephedanospam@maccom...
>
> Do other countries in Europe have this wild blackberry hedge phenomenon
> like Britain does?

Loads of them here in Brittany. They are way behind this year though. We
would normally expect to start picking about now and they are still little
hard green lumps.

T.

-Martin

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:00:20 GMT, Dan Stephenson <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 2007-08-09 08:30:06 -0500, [email protected] (David Horne, _the_
>chancellor (*)) said:
>
>>>> That's a good question. On some of our walks recently, it seems the
>>>> blackberries are a lot less further on than they were in recent years.
>>>
>>> That's odd we have been eating them already.
>>
>> In the wild? I assumed that's what he was talking about. You can easily
>> get the greenhouse grown ones in the supermarket of course.
>
>Well when I visited south England last year in the last two weeks of
>September, the crop was somewhat over-ripe. So I planned for the first
>two weeks of September, this year.
>
>Do other countries in Europe have this wild blackberry hedge phenomenon
>like Britain does?

Plenty in the Netherlands and they are already ripe.
--

Martin

Dan Stephenson

On 2007-08-13 00:33:45 -0500, "Terry Richards"
<[email protected]> said:

>
> "Dan Stephenson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:2007081212002016807-stephedanospam@maccom...
>>
>> Do other countries in Europe have this wild blackberry hedge phenomenon
>> like Britain does?
>
> Loads of them here in Brittany. They are way behind this year though. We
> would normally expect to start picking about now and they are still little
> hard green lumps.

Way cool, Brittany is on The List.

Does Brittany have the idyllic countryside of Britain?

Also, given its heritage does it have things like stone circles and
barrows and such?

>
> T.


--
Dan Stephenson
Photos, movies, panos from the Europe, USA, plus N.Z.:
http://homepage.mac.com/stepheda

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Terry Richards

"Dan Stephenson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:2007081521114275249-stephedanospam@maccom...
>
> Way cool, Brittany is on The List.
>
> Does Brittany have the idyllic countryside of Britain?
>

No, it's much nicer. And there's a lot more of it.

> Also, given its heritage does it have things like stone circles and
> barrows and such?
>

You can barely spit without hitting one. Google Carnac for one example. And
here are many more less famous examples.

T.