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This is Spectra text in my nearest town - the lovely Middlesbrough. Most of the locals regard it as a complete waste of money. It is mainly used by young ladies and gentlemen who can adjust their appearance in the mirrored surface before hitting the pubs and clubs. It won't be long before it is completely covered in graffiti if past experience is anything to go by


Middlesbrough also has some other silly sculptures like a huge bottle set at an angle in the ground which cost a fortune that could be better spent on improving the town in other ways. But get outside the town and you are in some of the best countryside in the UK - the North Yorkshire Moors and Dales. You're dead right though about the weather

wow.. 29C are you serious!!! why you must of been able to fry an egg on the pavement!!

lol

how cute!!

why dont you spend a summer in Australia and see some beautiful bright places, you'll probably need your jacket for when it gets down to about 25C but i assure you the rest of it will be a nice warm 35C.

I remember in school i used to love it because in summer if the temp got to over 40C we were allowed to go home! Waterfights all afternoon, and you barely felt the heat.

Ah but Caz's 29 degrees includes 80% humidity at the same time.

You can titter!! We Angles don't have climate, but we enjoy our eccentric weather which sometimes sends us four seasons in a day, and sometimes all four come at once. We have the Gulf Stream and the joys of temperate and intemperate west winds from the Atlantic (which hit my home full on) up to and including hurricane force. We enjoy Arctic winds from the Nor'East of Siberia and Scandinavia and sand carried in the jetstreams whistling across from North Africa and the Sahara. And for such a tiny nation on a silly island with it's own Scilly Islanders tacked on the toe, we are used to the weather dominating the conversation because it is rare for any two days or two adjoining counties to be the same. I don't hanker after year long summers or rainless days or the weather I have experienced across Africa and America and Oz. Give me warm drizzle and humid summer nights, freezing white March daybreak and teatime in the dark in cold wet Somerset. You guys wouldn't last long here, when you never know what tomorrow or even this afternoon will bring.

Bring on your worst insults! We can take it, on the beaches, in the streets, in the rain hail wind and snow of summer...etc etc ;)

PS. Gosh UT but you were up early, or was it late yesterday...?

I never sleep and am always on the Cellar, 24 hrs a day so that I can keep up with the Euro and Asian users in their different time zones.

This man is a hero and should have a day named for him. How about Undertuesday?

Excellent.:beer:

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[quote]Originally posted by CzinZumerzet
[b]You can titter!! We Angles don't have climate, but we enjoy our eccentric weather which sometimes sends us four seasons in a day, and sometimes all four come at once.

Eccentric weather I live in Edinburgh..last week we had a day that had rain,hailstones,sunshine,wind,thunder shit the only thing missing was a friggin' sandstorm.
I even had to scrape frost from the car window's last saturday morning,Its nearly may and our central heatings still on.

Summer Ha Ha thats why we all bugger off to Spain etc in July and Aug.. :D

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On the other hand, I've been in Edinburgh in early December and it was quite nice. Only needed a sweater.

You do what, to Spain?:eek3: