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1. At 12:00 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Big Sister wrote:

   Brrrrr, that's even colder than Sussex!

   But Peter Collyer, thanks for sharing it with us.

2. At 12:02 PM on 22 Mar 2007, witchiwoman wrote:

   I mentioned the book this came from on 'oops'. So Glad Mr Collyer got in touch!

3. At 12:16 PM on 22 Mar 2007, wrote:

   @Big Sister (1) it is brass monkeys in Sussex today isn't it?

   I was driving in to work this morning it was like someone was shaking the contents of a feather pillow out. I spoke to a friend in Manchester while I was driving (hands free of course) and he said it was lovely and sunny there. What's that all about? I thought it was supposed to be grim up north.

   Anyway, great picture Eddie. Is there a high res version? It'd make a great desktop background.

4. At 12:32 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Carl wrote:

   It's either a nucleur powered submarine or Titanic.. I can't tell which.

5. At 12:48 PM on 22 Mar 2007, wrote:

   Great Photo. I E Mailed ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ PM another photo.

6. At 01:05 PM on 22 Mar 2007, whisky-joe wrote:

   Hello Eddie,

   Yes, that was a lovely piece about the Shipping Forecast by Yvonne Murray on yesterday's PM. Sitting at home listening to the shipping forecast can be a cosily reassuring experience. There's no danger of a westerly gale eight, veering southwesterly increasing nine later (visibility poor) gusting through your average suburban living room, blowing the Sunday papers all over the place and startling yer pet water vole. Yet familiar though the sea areas are by name, few people give much thought to where they are or what they contain. To quote silver-fox... Lovely picture.

7. At 01:15 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Aperitif wrote:

   Blimey, that just made me shiver!

8. At 01:23 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Gossipmistress wrote:

   Looks like the Loch Ness Monster to me!

9. At 01:31 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Big Sister wrote:

   Eddie:
   Do you think you could start another thread as I'm starting to feel seasick. And cold.

10. At 01:32 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Lou Cowt wrote:

    Weather for London:

    Following another chilly day with light snow showers this morning. Any snow will turn to rain. A cloudy day.

    MAX TEMP: 8C

    SUNSET: 6.14pm

    OVERNIGHT: Staying cloudy - with drizzle and mist at times. Slowly getting warmer.

    MIN TEMP: 5C (central), 2C (suburbs)

    TOMORROW: Feeling milder. Mostly cloudy with a little rain. There might be a few bright spells later in the day. Feeling a bit milder - 9C.

    FURTHER 3 DAY OUTLOOK:
    SATURDAY: Milder. Cloudy, but not too cold. Highs of 13c.
    SUNDAY: Dry with sunny intervals.
    MONDAY: Sunny spells - and feeling warmer than this week. Temperatures back to 15C.
    

11. At 01:36 PM on 22 Mar 2007, admin annie wrote:

    Dear Whisky Joe, there are one or two of us who listen to the shipping forecast to find out what our weather is going to be like; in particular the wind speeds so that we know how hard to tie things down. Apparently one of our neighbours recently lost a Nissen hut through not having quite enough loops of rope around it.

    Having said that it's gorgeous up here today; calm, sunny and husband is wandering round the newly planted wood examining the growth on the trees wearing a T-shirt.

    On the downside we haven't had the post yet, although I did get the PM newsletter just minutes ago - it's becoming almost boringly regular.

12. At 01:50 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Big Sister wrote:

    H-e-l-p! I'm d-r-o-w-n-i-n-g!!!!!!!

13. At 01:57 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Anne P. wrote:

    admin annie (11) - will you get trees to grow to tree height in the Northen Isles?
    I love mentally moving round the coast to the litany of the Shipping Forecast, never forgetting that Gale Force Nine to Severe Storm Eleven has serious consequences for someone. Was thinking of you, and of a fellow knitter in St Margarets Hope (who'd had to cancel a dental appointment and dash home before the causeway was closed a few days ago). We have it soft down here!

    Wonderful painting from Peter Collyer.

14. At 01:58 PM on 22 Mar 2007, RJD wrote:

    admin annie (11)

    What about the trees that aren't wearing T-shirts? Are you not interested in how they are growing?

    A beautiful sunny day here too, by the way.

15. At 02:11 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Aperitif wrote:

    Lou Cowt (10), Hello again. I see you've prefaced your post today with "Weather for London". Well, you don't say. I wonder whether this was in resposne to what I said to you yesterday. I feel the need for some spelling out: I was being ironic. It has always been quite clear that you were being London-centric and my wonder at where on Earth you could be talking about was designed to highlight this. I guess you couldn't hear my tone of voice, so I'd better be straight forward this time:

    What on Earth is your point? Anyone who has access to this blog also has access to weather webpages if (s)he really wants them. Furthermore, most people (90% actually) in the UK do not live in London. Give it a rest, eh? Tell us about you, comment on the news story of the day, comment on the PM programme, join in. Give up on the bl**dy London weather! :-)

16. At 02:16 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Belinda wrote:

    whisky king joe: I live on the coast and rely on the shipping forecast to give me an accurate reading for the day's weather - far better than the standard weather forecast in my book. Of course, the only days I have missed it recently were over the last 48 hours where I was mightily surprised to find waves reaching to the top of the cliff, and the flooded sea-front shut off by the Coastguards. Had I listened to the Shipping Forecast, I would have known to put my galoshes on.

17. At 02:20 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Lou Cowt wrote:

    Big Sis (12)

    Watch this while help is on the way...

    Scene: Sailor in small boat struggling against high waves and wind. Meanwhile a couple sit picnicking on a - strangely windless - clifftop, looking out to sea.

    PETUNIA (eating ice cream): Oh it's ever so nice and peaceful up here, Joe. Nice view, too.

    JOE: Aye, very nice Petunia. And look at that nice little boat. He's having a lot of fun out there in his nice little dinjy. That's what they call them, you know, sailing dinjies.

    PETUNIA: Aren't they nice people at our hotel, Joe?

    (Joe, looking through binoculars, sees sailor hanging on to his boom for dear life.)

    JOE: Hey hey! Hello! Now he's splicing his main brace.

    PETUNIA (focusing on ice cream): Though I don't think the man on table six is very nice.

    JOE (still looking at sailor): Ey, do you think he's in trouble, Petunia?

    PETUNIA: Ooh no, Joe, he's just enjoying himself on holiday.

    (Sailor is thrown into sea, then waves frantically for help.)

    JOE: Oh, he's decided to have a swim. Now he's going to climb back again. I expect that water's a bit cold, don't you? Oh, oh, he's changed his mind. Now he's waving to us. Coooeeee! I can't say I recognise him, though.
    
    Ask for the coastguard

    PETUNIA: Well he must know us. Maybe it's the gent on table number six?

    JOE: No it's not him, he's much...Oh now he's shouting. LOVELY DAY, IS'NT IT?

    SAILOR: HELP HELP! DIAL 999 AND ASK FOR THE COASTGUARD.

    JOE: I can't hear a word he's saying, you know.

    (Sailor's words appear in a speech bubble: in a postmodern joke, somehow Joe is able to read the speech bubble.)

    JOE, reading: Dial 999... and... ask... for... the... coast...guard... Well I never!

    (Joe runs to phone box and dials 999.)

    VOICEOVER (Eddie Mair): If you see a boat you think may be in distress, dial 999 and ask for the coastguard.

    That was a public information film.
    

18. At 02:26 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Molly wrote:

    Eddie
    Lovely item on the artist.There is something
    magical about those names . SO wants to live in Cromarty for six months next year .The place is as beautiful as it sounds and who'd have heard of it apart from the shipping forecast!

    Would we get PM easily? What a thought- must find out first...
    No PM- no Cromarty!

    Ed would know......

    Mollyxx

19. At 02:27 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Big Sister wrote:

    Hm, just as I thought. RJD's about. Back from the CaCA symposium in Naples, no doubt.

20. At 02:39 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Big Sister wrote:

    Yes, Lou. Quite.

21. At 02:42 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Aperitif wrote:

    Lou (17) Nice one.

    Boig Sis (19) I suspect you are right.

22. At 02:48 PM on 22 Mar 2007, RJD wrote:

    Ap (15) - Language, please!

    Big Sis (18) - "Back from the CaCA symposium in Naples, no doubt." I've obviously missed something - explain please.

23. At 02:54 PM on 22 Mar 2007, wrote:

    Perhaps I should have added the Shipping Forecast for the day of this painting: SOUTH EAST ICELAND South-southwesterly 4. Occasional rain. Moderate or poor. I know it looks very cold, and it was, with snow on the mountains and the coastal fog, but believe it or not it was early July. The book of my travels by the way is Rain Later, Good. Those that remember the notorious ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳2 programme Close Up: Radio Heads, which tried to make out that Radio4 listeners are all sad or eccentric, may recall my appearance as the artist being seasick over the side of Newhaven lifeboat while on the way to paint Greenwich Light Vessel.
    

24. At 03:04 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Aperitif wrote:

    Wow! I've just been sent back to September 26th for the first time ever! What did I do? Weird. Cherie Blair must be getting sick of saying how rubbish PM is.

    Is it because I'm using an older version of IE on this here PC today?

25. At 03:16 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Anne P. wrote:

    As a matter of interest, and as one who has not yet been banished to September, does this happen randomly, when you access the main thread from the PM web page or what? And is it only IE users who find themselves time travelling?

26. At 03:22 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Jerry Cornelius wrote:

    A small point, but in the newsletter the shipping forecast is referred to as the Shipping Forecast rather than the shipping forecast. Does this mean that it's a programme in its own right - hence the captilalisation? Or is this a case of inappropriatecapitalisationitis?

27. At 03:27 PM on 22 Mar 2007, wrote:

    Molly (18),

    Typical Southern remark! ;-) It's hard to get further from here in Mainland Scotland than Cromarty!

    I do know, Appy (15), that with , London has almost 20% of the UK's population, and if we throw in the Southeast, rather more.

    AA, Looking at the trees and even talking to them and seeing to their protection does assure better growth. I speak from considerable experience. A little bonemeal in the planting hole also helps, as does killing the grass around them or mulching, especially if there's a dry summer. The grass gets the first grab at any rain. Bonemeal on the surface will draw doggies...

    xx
    ed

28. At 03:28 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Vyle Hernia wrote:

    Trees in T-shirts; weather forecasts in books. Whatever next?

    While I'm here, I may as well share this. I searched for my (real) name and it came up among a load of sport commentaries. But the one I thought was priceless was this:

    
    "That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on."
    JOHN LAMBIE, Partick Thistle manager, when told a concussed striker did not know who he was.
    

29. At 03:28 PM on 22 Mar 2007, witchiwoman wrote:

    Appy/Anne P - Fun isn't it and yes quite random. Sometimes you can be in the right month, post and end up in September by the time you've finished. Sometimes you start there! But it hasn't happened to me today. Yet. :)

30. At 03:49 PM on 22 Mar 2007, wrote:

    Re my (8) I should clarify that it's a lovely and very atmospheric painting. It was just those 3 peaks that looked monsterish!

    RJD - how was Barcelona? And the dancing?!

31. At 03:54 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Carl wrote:

    Eddie... I've never known a night like it!

32. At 04:05 PM on 22 Mar 2007, wrote:

    If someone works out how the time travel thing works, could you let me know please? I would like to read the 50,000 th blog comment which is due to be posted about next September.

33. At 04:16 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Gossipmistress wrote:

    Vyle - haha! :-)

34. At 04:23 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Gillian wrote:

    Vyle Hernia (23) Hmmmm....Are you a sports commentator or a commentatee...?
    TING - Next question please....!

35. At 04:40 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Molly wrote:

    Ed (27)
    naughty step...? ;-(

    Mollyxx

36. At 04:42 PM on 22 Mar 2007, RJD wrote:

    Vyle (28) - Searched for your real name? Have you lost it? According to my records you were born on October 8, 1928, in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria.
    Is that any help?

    Gossipmistress (30) - Barcelona was great as was the dancing. A few pictures on Flick'r if I get a chance tonight!

37. At 04:43 PM on 22 Mar 2007, wrote:

    Hey I just found a listen again link for the shipping forcast! Here: /weather/coast/shipping/index.shtml

    Cool :¬D

38. At 05:29 PM on 22 Mar 2007, admin annie wrote:

    RJD - I knew when I typed that comment that some clever dick would ask about the trees without T-shirts but I thought that would be preferable to sayoig my SO was dressed only in a T shirt because that would just be asking for comments that would send folk straight to the naughty coprner.

    Anne P - your fellow knitter from The Hope - that would be Liz Lovick then would it?

    I got September earlier but managed to navigate forward to March - weird!

39. At 05:32 PM on 22 Mar 2007, admin annie wrote:

    Ed I - I'm sure he talks to the trees and they are all well mulched with individual little mulch mats - tedious work but it has to be done. We only lost 8 tree guuards iunthe recent Force 11s so he must be doing something right.

40. At 07:09 PM on 22 Mar 2007, nikki noodle wrote:

    just to say

    i really enjoyed the piece on this programme about the shipping forcast/artist

    and what a delight to see the picture by Peter C.

    n-n
    xx

41. At 08:19 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Aperitif wrote:

    Ed,

    As I understood it London had about 10% of the UK's population at something between 6 and 7 million (the same as the whole of Scotland, and more than the whole of New Zealand. Random, but interesting, thunk I). I think perhaps your reference is to Greater London? Anyway, 10 or 20, it's still a minority. And it's weether is of no interest to me unless I happen to be there. :-)

42. At 10:46 PM on 22 Mar 2007, wrote:

    Anne P - September strikes without warning, when you least expect it! And not just for IE users - we are of the fluffy & cute Firefox persuasion & I've revisited Sept a few times this week. I must say, it's wonderfully quaint & rather British. All this technology, & every so often it just dumps you back to last year & no-one knows why .(That's the spooky bit). Not even the clever people who are supposed to know about such things. I love it. Perhaps the next step in this time corruption will be PM randomly playing their old programmes too. I'm looking forward to it. I've got such a goldfish brain these days I probably wouldn't notice for quite a while, (if at all).

43. At 11:15 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Chris the Pickle wrote:

    Aperitif (15)
    Lou Cowt (10)

    Ap, at the risk of being severely dressed-down, I feel the need to express my concern at your disapproval of LC's weather forecast! Surely (s)he is perfectly entitled to frog such info?

    Yes, and you have the right to object, I know...

    :o)

    Does anyone know if/how the recording session is going?

    I'll check for responses to this tomorrow, as I need to hear a noise like a pillow makes...

    'Night all
    x

44. At 11:36 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Frances O wrote:

    Ohhhh, I missed the piece about the Shipping Forecast! Rockall I can do about it now,

    I, too, like navigating my way round the seas when I hear it. How snug I feel

    (No, that was sNug, thank you,)

    as I squiggle ino my duvet as I hear about the goings-on in Mallin, Hebrides and other chilly places.

    Funnily enough, though, it also reminds me of friends in weatherier places than here (hello, Donald!) around the coasts of these islands. Which makes me feel even warmer, only on the inside. Northest Lewis, westest Wales, northest Aberdeenshire, all there, and good memories of a great city I suppose must be encompassed by Carlingford Lough to Lough Foyle. (RJD will correct me)

45. At 11:44 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Frances O wrote:

    Oh, Annasee, I m also fluffy firefox, but no Sept. Feel hard done by as it was my birthday that month and would have been able to dun a few people for extra presents if I could have spread the madness further. Need Eric to tell people it's Sept, though (slight snag).

    Um - sort of HG Wellian, really. Time out of control.

46. At 11:54 PM on 22 Mar 2007, Frances O wrote:

    Oh. Forgot to say, gorgeous picture.

47. At 12:06 AM on 23 Mar 2007, wrote:

    Frances O (44) - No correction necessary!

48. At 12:12 AM on 23 Mar 2007, Aperitif wrote:

    Frances (44) Rockall I can do about it now Tee hee!

    And friends in weatherier places -- what a lovely expression!

49. At 08:54 AM on 23 Mar 2007, Anne P. wrote:

    admin annie (38) Yes Liz Lovick, great knitter and member of an on-line cashmere group I subscribe to. Like the lovely frogging community I've never met in person, but you do build up a picture of people in your head - bit like the Shipping Forecast really.....

50. At 09:44 AM on 23 Mar 2007, Vyle Hernia wrote:

    RJD (36) - Yes, that's him. I was looking at the , and you can see why I didn't publish the reference to my namesake on this polite blog.

51. At 02:10 PM on 23 Mar 2007, wrote:

    Vyle - I remember first hearing the famous clip of Jonathan Agnew and Brian Johnston in stitches after Ian Botham "couldn't get his leg over". ... I was driving the car at the time and had to pull into the side as I was laughing so much I couldn't see properly
    

52. At 02:17 PM on 23 Mar 2007, Aperitif wrote:

    Did you get a tickle in the end Vyle?

53. At 03:58 PM on 23 Mar 2007, donald wrote:

    thank you frances o - I'm also comforted by Sailing By - but still mourn the passing of Butt of Lewis as a term in the forecast - by someone evidently with no ear for poetry or romance - it's been nearly 10 years since it was removed - and as I live within a couple of miles of the aforementioned Butt (??!!) it provokes a strange feeling, probably akin to the experience felt by a deleted file....

54. At 11:57 PM on 10 Apr 2007, nige wrote:

    Happy Birthday, Si!

    Miss you - love you lots.

    I was remembering that walk up to the station in Durham we did once, and the take away we all had in Alnwick.

    I phoned Ben, but he's not answering.

    love

    nige
    x