Happy birthday Elvie darl! Get any nice pressies on this fine day?

Indeed, indeed. Thank ye for the well wishes!

What an excellent avatar!

Fizzgig is the absolute greatest!

I know I have seen that thing before.....is it from the dark crystal?

Yeppers. I was so excited to find this avatar. ^_^ The Dark Crystal has been one of my favorite movies since I was a kid, and Fizzgig is definitely great.

LOL! I knew it!

Originally posted by Elvin Ruler Yeppers. I was so excited to find this avatar. ^_^ The Dark Crystal has been one of my favorite movies since I was a kid, and Fizzgig is definitely great.

Happy Birthday and I thought your avatar look familiar.

Gasp!!! Took me this long to realise whose birthday it was!!! Elvin!~~!! Darlin, Happy belated ( yeah like two months late) Birthday to ya!! Glad it was a good one. * Doin the Happy dance, "Fizzgig " style for ya* I would have poledanced for ya instead, were it not for the freezing winter nights we are experiencing Down Under!

Ack! How did I miss this??? I'm soooooooo sorry Elvin! Happy Belated Birthday!

Originally posted by imaqtz Gasp!!! Took me this long to realise whose birthday it was!!! Elvin!~~!! Darlin, Happy belated ( yeah like two months late) Birthday to ya!! Glad it was a good one. * Doin the Happy dance, "Fizzgig " style for ya* I would have poledanced for ya instead, were it not for the freezing winter nights we are experiencing Down Under!

You are lucky, it's summer and boiling hot and I was melting almost on Saturday morning at 2.30.

Thank you, thank you all! *hugs* It was nice weather for me b-day, but now it's averaging to be in the upper 90s - the heat index pushes it up even further. However I still think it beats the cold by far. Poor southern hemisphere people. Guess you'll have to come up here to Texas to poledance, Imi! Plenty warm for ya!

Not really, we hate the boiling hot, where it melts anything but the government, here in Britian. I don't know, old people. Late happy Birthday. Hee, Ha,

Let's face it, here in Britain we hate all the weather on principle. The child and I spent saturday afternoon in an open air swimming pool - bliss. And most of the weekend on a very nice campsite, coated in strong sunblock. We had a great time.,

Now, see, here in Texas, apartment complexes have swimming pools and air conditioners. I think it's against the law to not have these things. (Actually, it's not, but I'm lucky to live in cheap housing that does. However, it's in the works, as we're having more and more elderly dying of heat strokes. ) So...what's the average summer temperature for ya'll around there? I have a Celsius/Farenheit converter if I need to cheat. ^_^

Well it can be from 20*C to 30*c and even above sometimes.

Originally posted by meridianday Let's face it, here in Britain we hate all the weather on principle. The child and I spent saturday afternoon in an open air swimming pool - bliss. And most of the weekend on a very nice campsite, coated in strong sunblock. We had a great time.,

A group of workmates play football between themselves every 2 weeks on Sunday. It was sunny and hot and pissing it down with rain at the same time . Afterwards, we all had huge emormous hailstones, being hailed at us from somewhere.

Soooo...30 Celcius is approximately 86 degrees...tomorrow's high here is predicted to be 98. I wish I was in Britain (doesn't everyone, though?)! Besides, ya'll have some pretty cool churches/cathedrals there with nice organs. However...the hailstorms in 86 degrees is kind of weird. In fact, hail around here is weird in total. I think that not only do the British hate the weather, but that the weather hates the British. It's true! It's true!

We Brits are a pathetic lot when it comes to the weather. Largely because we never have one kind for long enough to learn to deal with it. For example, I wouldn't care at all to have 6 months of snow every winter like parts of Canada, but I suspect because they are so used to it there, that it isn't much of a problem. But the flash floods at the end of the weekend caught everyone by surprise because we don't normally get those. And my manager's rabbit died of heat prostration.

Originally posted by Elvin Ruler Soooo...30 Celcius is approximately 86 degrees...tomorrow's high here is predicted to be 98. I wish I was in Britain (doesn't everyone, though?)! Besides, ya'll have some pretty cool churches/cathedrals there with nice organs. However...the hailstorms in 86 degrees is kind of weird. In fact, hail around here is weird in total. I think that not only do the British hate the weather, but that the weather hates the British. It's true! It's true!

Either it's too hot or too hot and wet, as we do have summer thunders storms or too cold and too cold and wet, as it mostly pisses down with rain in winter. About 3/4 years ago, we had 2 small tornados here in bloxwich (not at the same time of course), nothing like you lot get in the US. This is why we hate the weaher, because it just can't be nice but one extreme or the other extreme.

Originally posted by meridianday We Brits are a pathetic lot when it comes to the weather. Largely because we never have one kind for long enough to learn to deal with it. For example, I wouldn't care at all to have 6 months of snow every winter like parts of Canada, but I suspect because they are so used to it there, that it isn't much of a problem. A few of us prefer the winter as it cooler at work and not bloody sweating too hot. [QUOTE][1]But the flash floods at the end of the weekend caught everyone by surprise because we don't normally get those. Flooding in winter, yes, but summer? All I can say is The Day After Tomorrow film is slowly but truely coming true. And my manager's rabbit died of heat prostration.

Heat prostration? Oo er missis.

And here I thought having 19C degree winter days and 9Cdegree winter nights, that it was Freezing ! Your floods in UK made the news here BTW. Hope you guys werent too affected. And Im sorry about your heat waves in Texas! and for the poor bunny. Nice to know we are all being fried, fozen or ...prostrated right now thanks to the weather! ANyone ever thought of making a hazmat suit a fashion item lately?

Pah. This is no heat wave. I'll let you know when it reaches the 110s. THEN it's hot. How bad is the flooding? Here, all's we here about is "Michael Jackson this..." "Tom Cruise...SQUIRTED..." and such. Anything actually important? Ignored, as usal. Pah. Hazmat suits are cool, just because you get that cool Vader-esque breathing sound. ^_^

Originally posted by imaqtz And here I thought having 19C degree winter days and 9Cdegree winter nights, that it was Freezing ! Your floods in UK made the news here BTW. Hope you guys werent too affected.

19C degree is normal temperature for the spring and autumn over here and very nice and it's a heatwave over here and as for the floods, when the thunderstorms broke, there was somekind of power cut to Wolverhampton (near me), hail the size of stones and it's really the north, eg Yorkshire that were effected and it was very bad. In fact couple of years ago in Bloxwich, where I live, we had 2 tornados coming and going. Nothing like they have in Kanases with houses flying around and squashing wicked witches of the West. Right, I am to melt now.

Originally posted by Elvin Ruler Pah. This is no heat wave. I'll let you know when it reaches the 110s. THEN it's hot. How bad is the flooding? Here, all's we here about is "Michael Jackson this..." "Tom Cruise...SQUIRTED..." and such. Anything actually important? Ignored, as usal. Pah. Hazmat suits are cool, just because you get that cool Vader-esque breathing sound. ^_^

It was very bad for the north and we had the floods, "Michael Jackson this...." and "Tom Cruise...SQUIRTED..." as well.

I'm sorry. Actually, I'd let ya'll KEEP both of them (heck, you can have ALL the stinkin' celebrities) if I could. Yeeesh. Twisters (smaller tornados, despite the movie description) as well? Next thing you need should be...an earthquake. Yep. So...put all your fragile stuff on the floor.

Actually, talking about earthquakes......About a year ago, there was a tremor in Dudley (a town in the Midlands) and we, in the Midlands felt it about at 1 am. We all thought it was either a nuke strike or people ramming through our front rooms.

One of the earthquakes I was in -- in Ottawa in early 1980's, 4.5 I think -- was in the middle of the night. Dad thought the big propane tanks a mile away at the depot had blown and got us all ready to run. Southern Ontario, we have to be ready for most of it. Summer days can reach 35/95 and humid. And a week later in the high teens. 10 deg C / 16 deg F range between waking up and noon hour, so the kids are tempted to go to school with jackets and then get heat stroke. And then a couple of 20 cm snow storms in the winter, temps below -20C/-4 at morning bus stop. Last year it was so rainy the crops wouldn't grow, the year before it was so dry the rivers were drying up. Class 5 tornado out of no where a few years ago. Out east, though, it's a lot worse -- same temperatures but viscious snow. Fortunately, it's cold enough for long enough that most places have good insulation and proper central heating. And it's hot enough for long enough that all the malls and busses and health clubs (and all but the oldest of school buildings) have air conditioning. Oh, and the smog. Half of what we get here we're told is from the states, which of course leads some to give up on their own efforts. I'm the only one on the block who ever uses a solar clothes dryer, and only two of us have push-mowers. Then again, I tend to drive to distant parks (the ones near the river), so I guess it evens out. But I think I'll stay. I'm rather fond of it all. Cricket

Well top temperature so far in my part of the UK (not affected by the floods) is 33.1c hottest ever recording in the Uk was in Camden in 1957 and that was 35.5C. No records broken yet and the raineth cometh next week (just in time for the wimbledon finals as usual!!!) biggest thing at the moment is smog and the affects it will have on any asthmatics

It's pretty accurate, I'd say. I'd have to look and compare regulations on cars and stuff. We might have higher regulations, but there are definitely more here. I think the true problem with smog in the States is that it isn't considered a real problem yet. *sigh*

Originally posted by Firebird Well top temperature so far in my part of the UK (not affected by the floods) is 33.1c hottest ever recording in the Uk was in Camden in 1957 and that was 35.5C. No records broken yet and the raineth cometh next week (just in time for the wimbledon finals as usual!!!) biggest thing at the moment is smog and the affects it will have on any asthmatics

This morning I heard a thunderstorm and it's raining in the Midlands AND (he laughs) at the Glastenbuy Festival) To quote Nelson from the Simpsons "Ha ha."