The Weather

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I won't be able to walk up that way until somebody gets the chain saws out and that's a fact, it's impassable.

That will be you, ya lazy beggar. This is the big society you know

It'll be the little society in the form of the bloke three houses down from me. He's not only got a chainsaw, he knows how to wield it, he has a log burner, and although technically the trees belong to a big house on the other side of the hill (it is unoccupied and up for sale) he believes in free enterprise - i.e. he'll have anything away if it costs nowt.

Robert Feakin, aged 21, from Egerton, leapt into action to help drivers left at a standstill by a tree which had fallen on the A666.

A scout leader, he was running a scouts evening at the 78th Bolton North group's Egerton base when parents contacted him to say they would be late collecting their children.

Mr Feakin, aided by colleagues and some of the drivers stranded on the A666, then set about moving the tree.

Using his own Land Rover, he dragged the tree off the road and colleagues were able to direct the traffic through two lanes to ease the congestion.

Council tree surgeons arrived shortly after the fallen tree had been dealt with.

Mr Feakin said: "It happened right next to our hut and we thought we ought to do something about it.

"I was a little dubious over whether my car would be able to manage it, but with eight blokes helping me, we got it off the road.

"It was really windy out there, not very pleasant at all, but I was just glad I could help."

Good luck to anyone trying to clear my fallen trees, the footpath they are lying across is in the middle of a wood on a steep slope with a quarry edge to one side and a sheer cliff on the other. Anyone trying to get a car to them would have to cross a river (by a footbridge) squeeze between two upright standing stones with less than a foot and a half gap and ascend an unpaved path up a 45 degree slope. You couldn't get a horse there never mind a car.

[Gary the Enfield]

Didn't someone die yesterday trying to move a tree which had come down and had a live electric cable wrapped in it's branches?

Safety first folks!

[Lord Kangana]

Bloody do-gooders.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Bloody do-gooders.

Them, and the looters. It'll be a race to see who gets there first. (Can you loot a fallen tree?)

[Annoyed Grunt]

Bloody do-gooders.

Them, and the looters. It'll be a race to see who gets there first. (Can you loot a fallen tree?)

Beavers might?

[Gary the Enfield]

Bloody do-gooders.

Them, and the looters. It'll be a race to see who gets there first. (Can you loot a fallen tree?)

Beavers might?

Dam, that's funny.

[jaffka]

Bloody do-gooders.

Them, and the looters. It'll be a race to see who gets there first. (Can you loot a fallen tree?)

Quite a frequent occurrence that fallen trees are chopped up. People who have open fires and log burners, it's nice to get free fuel.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

This is my local

(TANGODANCER should recognise it, he painted Morris Dancers outside it)

As I said, once the Peak District floods, you're all about to drown...



(to be found here http://www.matlockmercury.co.uk/news/lo ... -1-6430047 )

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

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"Two very dry winters – drought may be the new norm"

Feb 2012 - Caroline Spelman, then SoS for the Environment

[Lord Kangana]

I believe that the received wisdom is that with extreme weather conditions, flood and drought will be the new norm.

[Bruce Rioja]

These people who claim to know what the weather'll be doing 100 years from now can't even accurately forecast what it'll be doing this afternoon, the living-stealing 4uckers!

[Lord Kangana]

[bobo the clown]

A good while ago I used a term which got some people rather agitated. It was "Liberal Fascism" ... that being a wave of attitudes by which if you don't agree with current liberalistic thinking your life, work and freedoms can be seriously affected.

Read this & weep ...

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[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

A good while ago I used a term which got some people rather agitated. It was "Liberal Fascism" ... that being a wave of attitudes by which if you don't agree with current liberalistic thinking your life, work and freedoms can be seriously affected.

Read this & weep ...

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Why is the BBC spelling adviser with an 'o' now?



What was that about facism?!

[Prufrock]

Were people really that 'agitated', or did they just find the use of the word 'facism' a little crass in the context (a trait that's quite left wing student activist, if you don't mind me saying.)

Think they've gone a bit nuts there. Seems fair enough in terms of the actual environment-heavy departments, but the chief vet? Why? Who cares what he thinks about it?!

[jaffka]

A good while ago I used a term which got some people rather agitated. It was "Liberal Fascism" ... that being a wave of attitudes by which if you don't agree with current liberalistic thinking your life, work and freedoms can be seriously affected.

Read this & weep ...

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Diversity trainers fall into that bracket.

[Montreal Wanderer]

A good while ago I used a term which got some people rather agitated. It was "Liberal Fascism" ... that being a wave of attitudes by which if you don't agree with current liberalistic thinking your life, work and freedoms can be seriously affected.

Read this & weep ...

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Why is the BBC spelling adviser with an 'o' now?



What was that about facism?!

I usually spell it with an 'o', PB, as did Charlotte Bronte.

1839 C. Brontë Let. 11 Feb. (1995) I. 125, I trust sincerely that your medical advisor is mistaken in supposing you have any tendency to pulmonary affection.

I think either spelling is permitted.

[boltonboris]

'O' is the Americanis(z)ed spelling, isn't it?

[Montreal Wanderer]

'O' is the Americanis(z)ed spelling, isn't it?

I'm not sure, Boris. Both seem acceptable in the UK since the 16th century.

1589 A. Wingfield True Coppie Disc. 57 The gracious aspect of our dread Soueraigne..and..the iustice of her most rare and graue aduisors.

1575 W. Patten Cal. Script. f. 22, Optimus consultor. Optimum consilium: An excellent aduiser. Uery good reed.

The US clearly uses the 'e' version.

2007 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 Jan. 16/2 The three of them..were Reagan's closest advisers.

1996 Univ. Vermont Rec. 13 Sept. 1/1 The first hour is devoted to speakers talking about campus-life issues—alcohol use, gender issues, or what to expect from advisers.

FWIW the Grammarist, whoever he or she is,tells us:

Adviser and advisor are both accepted spellings of the noun meaning one who advises or counsels. There is no difference between them. But adviser, the older version, is listed as the primary spelling in most dictionaries, and it is about five times as common as advisor in current news publications from throughout the English-speaking world.

In the U.S. and Canada, advisor is commonly used in official job titles, but adviser is still generally preferred over advisor in North America, and advisor is only marginally more common in American and Canadian English than in other varieties of English.

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Certainly even the Americans used 'adviser' in their legislation in the 1940s. ihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment_Advisers_Act_of_1940" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Personally I find the 'o' version a false analogy with other Latin-derived words to make it sound more official. British newspapers and institutions tend to favour the 'e', in my experience.

Hence my surprise at the BBC's choice on this occasion.