Stinkers, have you got dry pants?

[hellkat]

Are you over the floody side of the country, or the other bit?

I have visions of you floating away down a paddock with your arm still lodged inside a cow's bum.

Hope all is warm and dry with la famiglia Stinkers?
No footrot, I hope! xx
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[MCN]

[ScaredyCat]

Did you see that happy donkey?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/188253/general/halp1.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/188253/general/halp2.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/188253/general/halp3.jpg
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[CaNsA]

[Rob Fzs]

[stinkwheel]

Awww. nice to be thought of.

Mrs stikwheel commented how lucky we are not to be flooded.

I pointed out luck had nothing to do with it. I quite deliberately bought a house up on a hill and away from any watercourses. Trading off the risk of windmills against the risk of flooding.

Quite a spectacular amount of rain came down though, even for the Lake District. I'll admit I chucked my drysuit, bouyancy aid and throwrope in the back of the van at the weekend, just in case.

I'm rather hoping we now get some joined-up thinking about upstream flood mitigation. Such as halving the numbers of sheep on the fells and planting some trees so there's soil and vegetation to slow down the water getting into the drainage basins. I'm sure they won't though, it was shouted down by ramblers last time it was proposed.

They're currently still all bleating on about beefing up flood defences when the problem is rivers spiking to 6+ metres above their normal levels. They need to flatten out the spikes by slowing down the water, not build higher walls.

I won't hold my breath.

Here's what I mean by spikes. This is the environment agency level gauge for the area of Carlisle worst affected.

The top black line is the level in the 2005 floods. The next one down is the level in 2011. As you can see, it wouldn't take much flattening to have made this not a flood.

The Keswick gauge on the River Greta flat-topped which means the level went over the top of the gauge.
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[MCN]

By now one would/could assume the Engineers had a Scooby about the way water finds it's level.

Some fecker dropped the ball on this.
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[stinkwheel]

[Rogerborg]

Dammit, tell me they managed to save the Cumberland Pencil Museum!

https://derwentstorage.blob.core.windows.net/museum/files/images/animated/kids_landing.gif

Shudder.
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[MCN]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[stinkwheel]

[Rogerborg]

... is that .gif based on your visit?
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[MCN]

WTF is a Pencil?
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[hellkat]

But I like Staedtler pencils ...



I like those red and black ones; the wood is soft. You can leave your teethmarks all the way down the shaft.
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[Rogerborg]

[Tracey Suntan-King]

[MCN]

[hellkat]

Oh that must be why I am not right in the head, then.

Cos I gnawed all my pencils* as a kid, and most of them were Staedtlers. I especially liked biting of the black bit at the top and then (as mentioned) leaving teeth marks all over. Stopped me (momentarily) from biting my nails

I must have been a hamster in another life. I just have to always be gnawing things.


*and pens, biros, fountain pens, lids off coloured felt-tips - in fact, the only thing I didn't gnaw was chalk. Weird child!
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[MCN]