Weekend/early next week. Time to stock up on the essentials :nod:
Weekend/early next week. Time to stock up on the essentials :nod:
They've been promising us that for weeks now b. I don't believe them any more. Lyors.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige
Do you want some snow? Been snowing here for days - rather dull now. I can send some overQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I want a massive dump of snow. The sort of snow that traps you indoors with a log fire and a black and white movie. That sort of snow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
It’s coming now, C. The ****ing sudden stratospheric warming has done it. I was hoping for an early spring :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I see. And what of my poor little early peas, eh? What of them?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Honestly. You only think of yourself.
School-closing snow - would be lovely. Two of the newer English lads here didn't turn up for work yesterday - we assumed they'd just looked out the window, seen the snow and assumed everything was shut down for the day :naive:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Peas? Peas are fine. I always get mine from the freezer anyway :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I hope so b. Last year I bought a Fjallraven quilted coat for walking and tried it out one day when the temperature was about -1. Within 10 minutes I was sweating like a pig, so I haven't been able to wear it since. I want to get some use out of the fúcker, it cost me a fortune.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige
Mine are sitting snugly under their cloches safe from frost. However, a dump of snow would crush them and I'd hold you personally responsible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Fjällräven make lovely stuff. Great choice. I’ve got my eye on a nice green one for next winter. £500 :-|Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I bought a Barbour jobbie in autumn. Not the waxed type or the padded things, but waterproof and fleece-lined. It was a superb investment. I've barely had it off all winter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Perhaps that will go just a little way to make up for my 14 years of disappointment at not winning a league title occasioned by your bizarre pact with the devil concerning the Cricketash.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
That's right. I haven't forgotten. Or forgiven.
Fnarr fnarrQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Sorry to hear that b. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
:noah: imhoQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
:nod: I bought a daypack that's just lovely. Old fashioned canvas and leather, it just exudes quality and is a pleasure to handle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige
You would kill poor, innocent peas just out of petty revenge? You heartless bàstard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Anyway, I wasn't to know Wenger was going to turn shït was I?
That's alright. It's a relief, if anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
In the matter of coatings, it would seem that going with the big brand name really does work. Barbour, Aquascutum, Fjallraven and Belstaff. All superb.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Do you remember when you used to be able to buy the George Graham overcoat from Aquascutum? :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I do not. I bought a raincoat from Aquascutum - I remember you raised it as a possible choice - but I was not offered the George Graham version.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Big pockets for brown envelopes, one imagines.
I took the time to do it elegantly. You just prodded it over the line.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
I do remember. I think I opined that, whatever the merits of its products, 'Aquascutum' is still a terrible name for a brand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
:nod: even when they forecast that for South Manchester, we end up with cold rainQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Mine was a first time finish, yours was a show pony trick for the cameraQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Have you seen the models for around 28/02? Huge amount of cold air sucked over from Siberia with a massive low in the Channel. Batten down the hatches, imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I keep hearing about these 'models', and it always transpires that there are 7 different blokes punting 7 different models.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
Sounds like a good night. President's Club Charity Dinner?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I watched a documentary about it a while back.The "weather man" enters data into a computer.The computer lashes out 50 different scenarios and highlights the 2 most likely.This is what is shown on the weather forecast.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Basically, weathermen are useless ****s and no more than a data inputter.Well done the computers.
Bring back Ian McCaskill, I say. That man knew weather.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
Do you know what I really hate about weather forecasters? When they do their forecasts on Countryfile, they do it all casually dressed. This usually means wearing a check shirt and an open collar in the case of the men. How patronising to straw-sucking yokel types is that, eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Personally I saw no need to take the topless weather girls off the airQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
It's been Spring here for a couple of weeks actually. Marvellous. Although the school was closed yesterday as it was "a little bit too chilly out."Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige
:-| #eurotrash
Does it double in weight in the rain?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
No, the water runs off it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Hold on, even the BBC are committing to it now. It's happening!Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige
Let's get plenty of tinned food in, boys. We're all going to be 'working from home' next week!