Bad Weather Today

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mpd

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Caer Urfa or Arbeia
You know how it goes. It's tipping down with rain, blowing a gale etc.. You are walking along in this maelstrom when someone you know, or perhaps don't know, walks past and says "nasty day isn't it?" Now, I always get a chuckle at that. Do they think I'm a Robot that doesn't experience the same as themselves?
Now for the last 40 years I can honestly say that I don't mind so called "nasty weather." All those 40 years ago I worked down a coal mine 7 miles out under the North Sea. After a night shift and walking home in the pitch black, freezing cold, wind and rain howling, I just gave thanks to the weather that I was still alive and in one piece to enjoy it!:)
 

Certainly no hero I'm afraid. It was just a job you had to do, as there was no other work. I remember an Easter Friday, the water started pouring in. They thought it was the sea! So what did management do? Don't withdraw the men, Ask them if they will strip to the waist and dive under the water to salvage whatever they could. If we did that, we could finish an hour early. I declined their "kind" invitation! Eventually on night waiting for the cage to take us down the shaft, it was unusually a bit late. Out of it came a poor soul, with his leg being carried in a plastic bag behind him. That was the inspiration needed to get looking for another job.
 

Lee said:
mpd.....where exactly is Caer Urfa or Arbeia? Have never heard of it and am certainly curious.
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I wondered if anyone would query that! It is from Roman times when they paid our country a little "holiday visit" for about 400 years. They built a fort and supply base for Hadrians Roman Wall. Later it was called Arbeia, said to be after the troops that were said to have been based their. Apparently Rivermen troops from the Tigris area, in what is now modern Iraq. Oh and after that short history lesson, the modern name is South Shields, on the North East Coast of England.
 
hollydolly said:
MPD you should move down South, we have a beautiful sunny day here today.
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Nothing personal, but no thanks, I'd like to retain my sanity! In reality, I had tried, in my 20's, to move down South, (Brentwood in Essex), but it just wasn't financially viable. I did live/work in Bristol for 3 years, but the pull, brought me back home. Actually would like to live in Shetland or the Hebrides, but their weather is another story! Just settle for taking my holidays their instead. As I said, the weather doesn't bother me.
 
Well I won't take it personally lol...but I am a Scot born and Bred, and much as I love my homeland and yearn to go back..after almost 40 years here in the south I couldn't imagine moving up to the North of England where you are, nor further north back to my homeland...the rotten weather would kill me off!!
 
mpd said:
Nothing personal, but no thanks, I'd like to retain my sanity! In reality, I had tried, in my 20's, to move down South, (Brentwood in Essex), but it just wasn't financially viable. I did live/work in Bristol for 3 years, but the pull, brought me back home. Actually would like to live in Shetland or the Hebrides, but their weather is another story! Just settle for taking my holidays their instead. As I said, the weather doesn't bother me.
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I generally go down to London about 5 or six times a year with my son to pursue our interests and hobbies. The best thing I can tell you about London is the 1900 train from Kings Cross to Newcastle! No, really, it's just too busy. I like a lot of the architecture and sights. Like yourself, I wouldn't move but it's just I think we get set in our ways as time goes by. It's surprising what difference you get in the weather in only 275 miles, but I don't mind as I'm pretty well padded!!!
 

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