Random Daily Banter

[First Aspect]

This is our third winter. One was okay, the other two have had about 200% of average rainfall. I will give it a bit longer, but I do start to think that's now the expected rainfall. In turn, this makes it more palatable if a proportion of that precipitation is snow. There's no point in having winter if it is so warm that it's really just a very long wet autumn.

Alternatively, I could buy a similarly sized house in parts of Europe for about 1/3 the price... Northern Spain or Portugal seems nice, and I'm good at sign language.

 

[Rusty Nails]

This is our third winter. One was okay, the other two have had about 200% of average rainfall. I will give it a bit longer, but I do start to think that's now the expected rainfall. In turn, this makes it more palatable if a proportion of that precipitation is snow. There's no point in having winter if it is so warm that it's really just a very long wet autumn.
Alternatively, I could buy a similarly sized house in parts of Europe for about 1/3 the price... Northern Spain or Portugal seems nice, and I'm good at sign language.

If only we were still in the EU that would be so simple.

 

[C R]

This is our third winter. One was okay, the other two have had about 200% of average rainfall. I will give it a bit longer, but I do start to think that's now the expected rainfall. In turn, this makes it more palatable if a proportion of that precipitation is snow. There's no point in having winter if it is so warm that it's really just a very long wet autumn.

Alternatively, I could buy a similarly sized house in parts of Europe for about 1/3 the price... Northern Spain or Portugal seems nice, and I'm good at sign language.

Galicia has had worse wetter weather than the southwest for the last three winters. Weather wise, the north of the Iberian peninsula is not that much better than the UK, generally. I would say that Galicia is weter.

 

[briantrumpet]

This is our third winter. One was okay, the other two have had about 200% of average rainfall. I will give it a bit longer, but I do start to think that's now the expected rainfall. In turn, this makes it more palatable if a proportion of that precipitation is snow. There's no point in having winter if it is so warm that it's really just a very long wet autumn.

Alternatively, I could buy a similarly sized house in parts of Europe for about 1/3 the price... Northern Spain or Portugal seems nice, and I'm good at sign language.

You probably know these, but they are very useful in assessing options: Met Office 'actual' and 'anomaly' maps.

 

[briantrumpet]

You probably know these, but they are very useful in assessing options: Met Office 'actual' and 'anomaly' maps.

You might think I jest about the Topsham forcefield, but if you go through the annual average rainfall maps, year after year just NE of the Exe estuary there is a lower average than most of the peninsula.

Obviously, one has to look at both the actual and anomaly maps to see how typical or unlucky specific areas are for each year.

Once I'm properly retired, I'll be aiming to make the best of the seasons in my two home locations, though the French one would have been similarly miserable this year: it's been mostly grey, cold & wet since I left there mid-January.

 

[First Aspect]

You probably know these, but they are very useful in assessing options: Met Office 'actual' and 'anomaly' maps.

I have them bookmarked already.

 

[briantrumpet]

Here's one I'm bookmarking for later...

 

[Ian H]

And this

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weirdmedievalguys on Instagram has loads of strange ancient pictures. There's even a book or two.

 

[First Aspect]

I've just read that the SNP is allowing pubs in Scotland to have extended opening hours for Scotland's World Cup games.

Nice gesture to allow that for all three of them.

 

[First Aspect]

This also made me chuckle. Turns out that no matter how well you try to wave lentils, they don't last very long.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0zg5xrrnqo

 

[briantrumpet]

This also made me chuckle. Turns out that no matter how well you try to wave lentils, they don't last very long.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0zg5xrrnqo

Building with compressed straw blocks is turning into a big thing in France (and probably elsewhere) - my concern would be with vermin and water ingress, over time (he says, sitting in his house made out of mud & straw).

 

[First Aspect]

Building with compressed straw blocks is turning into a big thing in France (and probably elsewhere) - my concern would be with vermin and water ingress, over time (he says, sitting in his house made out of mud & straw).

It is probably fine if you don't build it right up against a wet hillside. It is a bit like every garden shed I've ever inherited that has rotted because it's been put right up against something.

 

[Pross]

Just had this reply from my office manager (replying to a problem with my office chair). It was very difficult not to reply but I didn't want to get sacked within a month of starting. I think it may have been a test.

"No, there is a knob right under the chair - you wouldn't be able to feel it unless you get under it - just turn it firms up the back - you will prob want to play with it when your in so its fixed to your liking."

 

[First Aspect]

Just had this reply from my office manager (replying to a problem with my office chair). It was very difficult not to reply but I didn't want to get sacked within a month of starting. I think it may have been a test.

"No, there is a knob right under the chair - you wouldn't be able to feel it unless you get under it - just turn it firms up the back - you will prob want to play with it when your in so its fixed to your liking."

One thing that is really difficult to tolerate is people assuming that someone else is an idiot. Good luck and I hope your tongue heals okay.

 

[BoldonLad]

Just had this reply from my office manager (replying to a problem with my office chair). It was very difficult not to reply but I didn't want to get sacked within a month of starting. I think it may have been a test.

"No, there is a knob right under the chair - you wouldn't be able to feel it unless you get under it - just turn it firms up the back - you will prob want to play with it when your in so its fixed to your liking."

could have been worse, he/she could have suggested "playing with it" for you