Comments on radiogandy: A busy Tuesday - 53F - Gusty wind - heavy rain.

Jucuzzi is for five, I think, so no need to move o...

2009-05-20T19:34:05.718+01:00

Jucuzzi is for five, I think, so no need to move out. Some people chat but others ignore you.
It wasn't me being a whale I was in Dovedale but just you wait.

I would have been complaining about that meal too,...

2009-05-20T17:03:20.016+01:00

I would have been complaining about that meal too, hope Y wrote in as well....Under-cooked veg. definitely the trend, we used to get a special container at dinner on the last cruise containing well-cooked veg. just for us...

I do admire you doing all that swimming, Y, can I sit with you, G, in the lounge bar...R is a holiday swimmer, he can go on for length after length, up and down (must be very boring!)but he complains that these 'spa pools' in hotels are not for serious swimmers.

The Trees in Britain book looks just like my 'Wild Flowers in Britain' book, same author. A great find.

I remember the tombstone at Newstead, and was pleased to be reminded of the poem. And a good quote too! Flanders and Swan used to do a good ditty about English weather....

My second attempt at a comment - will I never lear...

2009-05-20T13:02:14.856+01:00

My second attempt at a comment - will I never learn that if I decide to 'preview' it before publication it goes into the ether. Graham can always find it but he's not here!

So - FOUR lengths at the swimming pool but passed a dozen times by a whale (male, of course) deluging all the sedate lady breast-stroke swimmers as he charged up and down. (Wait until I find my feet - and I'll have him ....).

Then the jacuzzi - surely the world's best-kept secret. And perhaps Reg could help me out with the etiquette - if someone joins you, should you leave as it's a bit intimate?

Then Lib.-Dem. leaflet deliveries. After all the exercise, I was fired up and desperate for the confrontation of the old days (particularly during the Jeremy Thorpe scandal) but never saw anyone!

But a question arose re. hanging ............ whoever invented those tight letterboxes with the brushes so that your hand gets jammed should be considered a candidate ...... An hour later, I still have the marks.

This variable weather seems remarkably consistent....

2009-05-19T20:57:00.000+01:00

This variable weather seems remarkably consistent.

You certainly make the meal sound unpleasant (although Sandra would consider the veg ‘just right’).
It isn’t actually on Anglesey,is it?

I find Big Issue invariably worth reading.

I suppose ‘a bedraggled, saturated, Liberal Democrat’ is better than no Liberal Democrat at all (we don’t have one).
I campaigned for the Social Democrats. What a long time ago.

I was certainly wrong about alders, possibly because they’re the same family as birch but dark grey and fissured.
And you may well be right, but I had a second thought (after googling), maybe Aspen? (photo by email).

I didn’t say there was never ANYTHING I admired in ‘Peoples Friend’!
The story of Gellert is also touching (and I can cry at Bambi's mother).

Us too, with Central Heating.

Jill:
In summer 1975, one of hottest recorded, snow stopped Derbyshire playing cricket on Spring Bank Holiday; 3 month heat-wave started 2 days later.