Re: Prodigal returns

2004-08-30 Thread Bob W
Hi, Saturday, August 28, 2004, 2:51:08 AM, Paul wrote: I was in London during a hurricane that hit with considerable force. The weather bureau failed to post any kind of warning. I guess the storm gained strength right before it came out of the Atlantic. I think it was 1987. I was in a room

Re: Prodigal returns

2004-08-29 Thread mike wilson
No sense of adventure, Malcolm. 8-) Malcolm Smith wrote: mike wilson wrote: As my tent was new, I spent most nights listening to the unfamiliar noises it was making in the gales, rather than sleeping. The next day's sailing of the catamaran was cancelled. Camping in the UK?? On the two

RE: Prodigal returns

2004-08-29 Thread Malcolm Smith
mike wilson wrote: No sense of adventure, Malcolm. 8-) Well, obviously my concern is for the camera equipment in such conditions (ahem, cough splutter). My eldest son was invited on a school camping trip last term; when I asked him if he wanted to go, he gave me a look of horror normally

Re: Prodigal returns

2004-08-29 Thread mike wilson
Malcolm Smith wrote: Well, obviously my concern is for the camera equipment in such conditions (ahem, cough splutter). My eldest son was invited on a school camping trip last term; when I asked him if he wanted to go, he gave me a look of horror normally reserved for the prospect of going shopping

Re: Prodigal returns

2004-08-29 Thread Caveman
ROFLMAO ! Nicely put ;-) In my life I met only one woman that was fun to go shopping with. Malcolm Smith wrote: he gave me a look of horror normally reserved for the prospect of going shopping with my wife for clothes

Re: Prodigal returns

2004-08-29 Thread Keith Whaley
mike wilson wrote: Malcolm Smith wrote: Well, obviously my concern is for the camera equipment in such conditions (ahem, cough splutter). My eldest son was invited on a school camping trip last term; when I asked him if he wanted to go, he gave me a look of horror normally reserved for the

Re: Prodigal returns

2004-08-29 Thread John Forbes
It's usually referred to simply as the '87 hurricane. It did so much damage that it even put the BBC off the air. John On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:51:08 -0400, Paul Stenquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was in London during a hurricane that hit with considerable force. The weather bureau failed to

Re: Prodigal returns

2004-08-27 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Sounds like typical English weather. . .

Re: Prodigal returns

2004-08-27 Thread mike wilson
8-) Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Sounds like typical English weather. . . In its changeability, yes. In its extremity, no. At one point there was just over 1 of rain in 2 hours. Not severe by the standards of some parts of the world but pretty fierce for the UK. As my tent was new, I spent most

Re: Prodigal returns

2004-08-27 Thread Cotty
On 27/8/04, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: 8-) Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Sounds like typical English weather. . . In its changeability, yes. In its extremity, no. At one point there was just over 1 of rain in 2 hours. Not severe by the standards of some parts of the world but

Re: Prodigal returns

2004-08-27 Thread mike wilson
Cotty wrote: On 27/8/04, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: 8-) Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Sounds like typical English weather. . . In its changeability, yes. In its extremity, no. At one point there was just over 1 of rain in 2 hours. Not severe by the standards of some parts of the

Re: Prodigal returns

2004-08-27 Thread Paul Stenquist
What was the hurricane that hit London almost full force in 87 or 88? I was in a room on about the 20th floor of the hotel that sits at what must be the southwest corner of Hyde Park. I woke up in the middle of the night and the window was pushing in and out. It must have been moving an inch

RE: Prodigal returns

2004-08-27 Thread Malcolm Smith
mike wilson wrote: As my tent was new, I spent most nights listening to the unfamiliar noises it was making in the gales, rather than sleeping. The next day's sailing of the catamaran was cancelled. Camping in the UK?? On the two occasions I have *endured* this, I abandoned the tent in the

Re: Prodigal returns

2004-08-27 Thread Paul Stenquist
I was in London during a hurricane that hit with considerable force. The weather bureau failed to post any kind of warning. I guess the storm gained strength right before it came out of the Atlantic. I think it was 1987. I was in a room on about the 20th floor of a hotel. i believe it was at

A prodigal returns

2004-03-03 Thread Tom Addison
Hi there all you pentaxers, it must be a few years since I last subscibed to the list, but a meeting with Clive and the iminent arrival of a istD have prompted me to return to the fold. Looking forward reading the many and varied opinions, ideas, moans and groans Happy days from (wet and

Re: A prodigal returns

2004-03-03 Thread frank theriault
Glad to see ya back in the fold. cheers, frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: Keith WHALEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A prodigal returns Date: Wed