Think we’ve had a wild fire every year for the 7 years we’ve been here. Sometimes it’s the local firemen, other times it’s helicopters and seaplanes water bombing it. The severity of it, once it gets a foothold, is very much determined by the wind.
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Think we’ve had a wild fire every year for the 7 years we’ve been here. Sometimes it’s the local firemen, other times it’s helicopters and seaplanes water bombing it. The severity of it, once it gets a foothold, is very much determined by the wind.
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Used to see loads in Cyprus - even saw the TA Army boys cause one by throwing flares around dry grass
A few times people have deliberately started them around the mountains and destroyed acres of land
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I‘d be disappointed. There’s a few very good support groups on Twitter for cancer sufferers, inc one for those who have or have had bowel cancer. The knowledge sharing, some of it quite technical, and empathy is excellent.
Not every feed is full of bile. In fact, maybe it’s because of what/who I follow but I’ve only ever seen a couple of toxic tweets.
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Used to see loads in Cyprus - even saw the TA Army boys cause one by throwing flares around dry grass
A few times people have deliberately started them around the mountains and destroyed acres of land
Europe and US heatwaves near 'impossible' without climate change
Scientists say the heatwaves seen in Europe, the US and China in July are no longer unusual.
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Nothing like science to back up a point.
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To clarify the wild fire v climate change discussion - Most (all?) fires are caused by humans and would be started irrespective of the weather/climate. The ferocity and scale of the fires is significantly increased by the high temperatures currently being experienced in the region. Climate change has not caused the fires but it has meant they are much worse than in previous years.
PJ87
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That's the point tho, with perfect conditions for fires to spread / cause more damage is down to climate change
Considering it's all human based anyways it's an entirely human caused issue.
Is this the Gladden the Heart Thread......
Anyway, Day 20 off work, 1 more to go then off for 3 weeks
Anyway, Day 20 off work, 1 more to go then off for 3 weeks
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Coming home to the wife screaming down the garden because a frog is in it.. the kids laughing their heads off
Out I come. Bucket over it. Cardboard over it and released it outside lol
She been chasing it round the garden with a pot and a spoon for an hour..gutted I missed it
Out I come. Bucket over it. Cardboard over it and released it outside lol
She been chasing it round the garden with a pot and a spoon for an hour..gutted I missed it
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What's wrong with a frog being in the garden?? I thought you meant in the kitchen or something.
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Dunno tbh you need to take that up with the genius who said dw I've put the air fryer in the dishwasher.. tell me you hand Cleaned the fat out first?
Ofc not. Muggings now trying to get on baked in Greese
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I mean the bucket lives by the back door (with the air con drain going to it)
So caught it go to let it out she goes no put it in the paddling pool we made it a pond and the girls wanna see
I said sod off love. You just made me catch it I ain't doing the same trick twice today
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As these things go - it’s what it’s used for. Like Facebook…I’m on a few great Facebook Groups (all historical/nostalgia) and they have been great for reconnecting and finding out family history etc. But too many just promote irritating tripe and I don’t post on them, and ignore them.
And so for Twitter. I don’t post on it at all but I like using it to follow my club‘s elite amateur Lottie Woad as she posts about her successes and failures making her way through college in the US and up the Ladies World Amateur ladder.
So I wouldn’t miss it one moment for my own opinion/thoughts publishing purposes - but I’d still miss it were it gone - though I’m sure the likes of Lottie would simply move to Threads.
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Ordered something on Friday evening from America, on Saturday I got an estimated delivery date of Monday 31st. It got delivered to the office this morning at 8:30. One happy customer.
Courier was Fed Ex.
Courier was Fed Ex.
Perhaps not the best or worst place to post this. A very dear friend succumbed to cancer on Sunday evening. It was 5 years of a very difficult battle for him. His last year looked like things were improving and he even talked of returning to bowling. But in recent months it really got a grip.
The replies on the club’s FB page are perhaps a fitting testament, and accurate too. He would go out of his way to do anything for anyone. I saw this first hand a couple of years back as he visited our oldest bowler every single day, who was 92 years old. He took him shopping several times a week , and for a beer each time they were out. He fed and watered him almost every day, including taking him out for a Sunday roast every week. All this whilst fighting cancer…
RIP Big Dave, a real giant amongst men.
The replies on the club’s FB page are perhaps a fitting testament, and accurate too. He would go out of his way to do anything for anyone. I saw this first hand a couple of years back as he visited our oldest bowler every single day, who was 92 years old. He took him shopping several times a week , and for a beer each time they were out. He fed and watered him almost every day, including taking him out for a Sunday roast every week. All this whilst fighting cancer…
RIP Big Dave, a real giant amongst men.
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YR has been my weather app of choice for some while. Quite why a Norwegian forecasting services gives better results for British weather than do British forecasting services is anyone's guess? But I trust it more than the Brit services