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bil Oct 15th 2010 10:47 pm

Re: Anyone else feeling a bit chilly already?
 

Originally Posted by rugbymatt (Post 8922086)
Oh diddums... bless you all! They give it snow for the tail end of next week on high ground! SNOW!!! Its bloody October! Snow!!!

This global warming is really confusing ya know.

I remember snow one June in the UK.

rugbymatt Oct 15th 2010 10:48 pm

Re: Anyone else feeling a bit chilly already?
 

Originally Posted by bil (Post 8922089)
I remember snow one June in the UK.

Yeah I remember it snowing bloody hard in May one year when I lived in the Cotswolds... still....

Dick Dasterdly Oct 15th 2010 11:34 pm

Re: Anyone else feeling a bit chilly already?
 

Originally Posted by bil (Post 8922089)
I remember snow one June in the UK.

Just 2 years ago back at my place, but there again it's .
not all that unusual in June.

Seems no time at all since all these Spanish based moaning minnies were all complaining about excess heat,and now it's back to bellyaching about the cold again.

Just no pleasing some folk or maybe it's all down to climate change after all ?

I try to concentrate mainly on the in-between periods for my time in Spain now, or Spring and Autumn, such as they are.

However by far the best solution for those who have weather at the top of their list of priorities is the Canaries.

HBG Oct 16th 2010 12:08 am

Re: Anyone else feeling a bit chilly already?
 
We visited Torrevieja seafront yesterday and the town was basking in sunshine and it was packed, mostly with foreign holidaymakers, which is unusual.

We only just managed to find a table at one of the line of restaurants overlooking the sea and asked the waiter who was rushing around serving his many customers. He explained that it was some kind of German holiday and they had all come to Torrevieja.

Listening to the accents all around, he was right, although the Scandinavians were also well represented. You can’t miss them, they’re all fair-haired giants.

rugbymatt Oct 16th 2010 12:09 am

Re: Anyone else feeling a bit chilly already?
 

Originally Posted by HBG (Post 8922190)
We visited Torrevieja seafront yesterday and the town was basking in sunshine and it was packed, mostly with foreign holidaymakers, which is unusual.

We only just managed to find a table at one of the line of restaurants overlooking the sea and asked the waiter who was rushing around serving his many customers. He explained that it was some kind of German holiday and they had all come to Torrevieja.

Listening to the accents all around, he was right, although the Scandinavians were also well represented. You can’t miss them, they’re all fair-haired giants.

I feel for you.

jdr Oct 16th 2010 12:39 am

Re: Anyone else feeling a bit chilly already?
 

Originally Posted by jonnyx (Post 8920143)
Hi,
I dont uderstand, the sun is shining and its still summer in the air.
Maybee you are on the wrong place.

:rofl:

HBG Oct 16th 2010 12:45 am

Re: Anyone else feeling a bit chilly already?
 

Originally Posted by rugbymatt (Post 8922192)
I feel for you.

If time transference (the Beam me up Scotty type) was available now, I would expect to see you suddenly emerging at Keepers on the front, probably in your green wellies.

However, don’t expect to see me emerging in the middle of Buckfastleigh in my shorts, I’d be sure to have forgotten my umbrella.

EsuriJohn Oct 16th 2010 1:58 am

Re: Anyone else feeling a bit chilly already?
 
I read somwhere that Lidel Spain have got Electric blanckets on offer this week.

rugbymatt Oct 16th 2010 2:47 am

Re: Anyone else feeling a bit chilly already?
 

Originally Posted by HBG (Post 8922238)
If time transference (the Beam me up Scotty type) was available now, I would expect to see you suddenly emerging at Keepers on the front, probably in your green wellies.

However, don’t expect to see me emerging in the middle of Buckfastleigh in my shorts, I’d be sure to have forgotten my umbrella.

I would not be seen dead in either place.

lunacrout Oct 16th 2010 4:25 am

Re: Anyone else feeling a bit chilly already?
 

Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly (Post 8922152)

Seems no time at all since all these Spanish based moaning minnies were all complaining about excess heat,and now it's back to bellyaching about the cold again.

Just no pleasing some folk or maybe it's all down to climate change after all ?

I started this thread & I don't believe you'll find any post in which I complained about excess heat!


Originally Posted by John & Kath (Post 8922314)
I read somwhere that Lidel Spain have got Electric blanckets on offer this week.

I'll be down there :thumbup:

elspeth sinclair Oct 16th 2010 4:33 am

Re: Anyone else feeling a bit chilly already?
 

Originally Posted by lunacrout (Post 8920588)
Well - the wind's whipping down from the mountain as I speak. It IS warmer outside but I have to use the computer inside - maybe I should just go for a walk to warm up!

My neice is here from Orkney and sunbathing on the roof for several hours a day but we put the heating on at about 8 o'clock at night if we are sitting chatting. Only at 23 degrees and after an hour she's complaining about it being too hot. I have put the polar sheets on and the duvet cover and wear my pyjamas but most nights I feel too warm until about five o'clock in the morning. Next month the electric blanket will go on and bed socks as the floor will be cold if one has to get up in the night. Really it's still like a good British summer with the odd shower which lasts 15 minutes. Its more like Spring weather than Autumn so long may it last.

bil Oct 16th 2010 5:42 am

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I laugh to hear the complaints, either for cold or for heat. Me I try never to bitch about the heat, as I know winter comes all too fast.

As in the almond tree.

She shook the flowering almond tree one sunny day
With her soft little hands,
The snowy blossoms on her breast and shoulders lay
And in her hair's dark strands
The snowy blossoms on her breast and shoulders lay
And in her hair's dark strands...

But when I saw my darling thus in snow
arrayed,
To her sweet side I sped
I brushed the gleaming petals from each
lock and braid,
I kissed her and I said:
I brushed the gleaming petals from each
lock and braid,
I kissed her and I said...

Oh, foolish one, to deck your hair so soon
with snow,
Long may you have to wait;
The dreary winter days when chilling north
winds blow
Do not anticipate!
The dreary winter days when chilling north
winds blow
Do not anticipate!

jimenato Oct 16th 2010 5:56 am

Re: Anyone else feeling a bit chilly already?
 
Why are people using words like bellyaching and complaints? I don't see any of this. I just see people commenting that it's a bit cooler. :confused:

It is a bit cooler - it's probably the best weather of the year right now. Not complaining = just commenting. :thumbup:

bil Oct 16th 2010 6:06 am

Re: Anyone else feeling a bit chilly already?
 

Originally Posted by jimenato (Post 8922607)
It is a bit cooler - it's probably the best weather of the year right now. Not complaining = just commenting. :thumbup:

That's true enough.

Dick Dasterdly Oct 16th 2010 7:06 am

Re: Anyone else feeling a bit chilly already?
 

Originally Posted by jimenato (Post 8922607)
Why are people using words like bellyaching and complaints? I don't see any of this. I just see people commenting that it's a bit cooler. :confused:

It is a bit cooler - it's probably the best weather of the year right now. Not complaining = just commenting. :thumbup:

I was not referring to this specific thread, but to many I have seen over the past two years for instance, including winters springs summers and autumns.

Too hot, too cold too wet, too windy......etc.etc.

I actually have 2 electric blankets and a hot water bottle in Spain, but none of those in the UK, however thats mainly down to house construction and insulation factors, rather than the weather,where I confess Spain has a slight edge, for most of the year at least.


As my Swedish friends keep telling me,.."There is no such thing as bad weather,.. only bad clothes".

Though I'm not entirely convinced, (my UK locatiion being on a windswept Northern hilltop 1000 ft asl., snow in June), it must also be said that you can always dress against the cold, but it's somewhat difficult to dress against excessive heat.


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