And we are home. It’s as hot here as it was in the south of France. I think we’ll be getting the fan back out of the roof. We put it away before we went on holiday assuming that the potential for mini heatwaves would be over when we returned
COLD DARK ROOM
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I've had this picture in my mind of the UK being cold and dreary all the time. I'm surprised to learn about 'heat waves' and Lynn's post about triple digit heat the other day really surprised me. I'll bet that's hard for you folks to take, huh? We have it all summer long, so we're more or less used to it and we have the cooling type appliances already in place to take care of triple digits. Stay cool!
Ok. Installed the brandy NEW disposal, but....nope, didnt work. :-(
Ok...has to be electrical issue. Removed switch plate, removed the switch, installed a brandy new switch AND voila! Motor turned on. I guess the internal bits in the on/off switch broke. So, now I can put the disposal all back in. We’re going to keep the new disposal installed.
The offending switch now replaced.
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We joke our weather constantly, but that’s because it is very changeable and completely unpredictable. People from other countries don’t understand how we can’t be certain what our weather will do more than a couple of days in advance. And pretty regularly there’s uncertainty through the day.
Our weather is driven by the Jet Stream which wiggles its way round the globe in the upper atmosphere bringing warm air from the Gulf of Mexico. The Jet Stream means that our weather is much milder than places at a similar latitude on the American side of the Atlantic Ocean. If it wasn’t for the Jet Stream we’d get weather like northern Canada and Alaska which are on the same latitude.
The Jet Stream’s position isn’t constant though. Sometimes it wiggles far to the North and we gets lots of warm weather. Sometimes the Jet Stream is to the south and we get very cold weather. Sometimes we get a direct hit and the warm, water loaded air brings lots of rain.
The West side of the UK gets the prevailing winds first and thus gets the rain first. So Lyn in Wales gets more rain than we do in the extreme East. We suffer from prolonged dry spells as the rain has all fallen before it gets to us.
We get lots of sun, but we gets lots of showers too which is what makes, as the hymn Jerusalem says, “England’s green and pleasant land”
We joke our weather constantly, but that’s because it is very changeable and completely unpredictable. People from other countries don’t understand how we can’t be certain what our weather will do more than a couple of days in advance. And pretty regularly there’s uncertainty through the day.
Our weather is driven by the Jet Stream which wiggles its way round the globe in the upper atmosphere bringing warm air from the Gulf of Mexico. The Jet Stream means that our weather is much milder than places at a similar latitude on the American side of the Atlantic Ocean. If it wasn’t for the Jet Stream we’d get weather like northern Canada and Alaska which are on the same latitude.
The Jet Stream’s position isn’t constant though. Sometimes it wiggles far to the North and we gets lots of warm weather. Sometimes the Jet Stream is to the south and we get very cold weather. Sometimes we get a direct hit and the warm, water loaded air brings lots of rain.
The West side of the UK gets the prevailing winds first and thus gets the rain first. So Lyn in Wales gets more rain than we do in the extreme East. We suffer from prolonged dry spells as the rain has all fallen before it gets to us.
We get lots of sun, but we gets lots of showers too which is what makes, as the hymn Jerusalem says, “England’s green and pleasant land”
One thing I learned very quickly while living in North Yorkshire up near Harrogate for a good five years was - one doesn't plan things by the wxr forecast, you just do it. Hike planned, do it. Visiting a castle, do it. A farmer’s msrket, just go. We would leave Harrogate in the pouring down rain, arrive at our trail and bam, sunshine all day. Or, usually, nice and clear in the morning only to get rained on all day long in the Dales or border with Scotland. We always had a good warm pub lined up at the end of the day, complete with a warming peat fire and Yorkshire pudding, and wonderful pints of Ale.
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Ok, all fixed. No runs, no drips, no errors. All back to normal.
All done with the yard work.. finally lazy sunday time
Sounds about right. There’s no bad weather. Just bad clothing. In the UK we wear layers so we can adjust easily... and keep an umbrella handy [emoji23]
Well done [emoji4]
All done with the yard work.. finally lazy sunday time
And well done to you too
Having got home about 3pm we have been able to unpack and get things organised. Between us, we have done a couple of loads of laundry, cut the grass which has taken full advantage of the heavy rain in our absence, picked up several pounds of windfall apples that smell very alcoholic and refilled our bird feeders.
Tomorrow I am back on duty at the wildlife rescue. JoesDad is off work because it’s a public holiday, so he can sort the car out (get it to the car wash and switch the headlights over) and clean the aquarium at his leisure.
It just occurred to me that I should explain the headlamp thing. In mainland Europe people drive on the right like in the USA and Canada.
In the UK we drive on the left. So, British car headlamps dip to the left and French car headlamps dip to the right. If we don’t adjust our headlamps they dazzle oncoming drivers in France even when dipped.
Some (expensive) cars have headlamps that can be adjusted using an electronic setting. Some people stop the glare by putting tape on the lamp glass to stop reflection of light to the left. Ours require you to take the headlamp unit out and manually flick a switch on the back of each so they dip the opposite way.
Tomorrow I am back on duty at the wildlife rescue. JoesDad is off work because it’s a public holiday, so he can sort the car out (get it to the car wash and switch the headlights over) and clean the aquarium at his leisure.
It just occurred to me that I should explain the headlamp thing. In mainland Europe people drive on the right like in the USA and Canada.
In the UK we drive on the left. So, British car headlamps dip to the left and French car headlamps dip to the right. If we don’t adjust our headlamps they dazzle oncoming drivers in France even when dipped.
Some (expensive) cars have headlamps that can be adjusted using an electronic setting. Some people stop the glare by putting tape on the lamp glass to stop reflection of light to the left. Ours require you to take the headlamp unit out and manually flick a switch on the back of each so they dip the opposite way.
Agh yes. I remember having my headlights adjusted AND adding a rear very bright FOG lamp to switch on during those zero visibility evenings and mornings. Needed to get this all done to bring my US vehicle ready for MOT inspection.
Sounds like you are already to enjoy your Bank Holiday monday. Have fun with the rescues.
Wow ive never heard of the headlight thing.. interesting
And well done lol
I guess your right.. i look forward to learning more. I mean i thought the carrot eating snow leopard, the wooly spider, jellyfish and leprechaun were interesting .. but this headlight thing just blew my mind hahaThe CDR is a centre for learning how things are elsewhere in the world.
Welcome back Linda!The CDR is a centre for learning how things are elsewhere in the world.
Everyday's a school day in the CDR!
Dont say that! I hate school LOL
I hope that doesn't include teachers!
Only ones that give homework for the weekendI hope that doesn't include teachers!
I take it your a teacher?
