@Moonie posted:

The course of cricket including test match cricket changed when it left terrestrial television El 

I agree

Watched an old episode of The Chase yesterday evening. One of the contestants, Keith, was excellent. I wasn't suprised where he and two other contestants won the final chase with, at the time, a record £50,400.

Keith seemed familiar to me. I have found this old clip on the BBC of him in the general knowledge round of Mastermind.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p048cpgv
 I think I've seen him on other television quiz shows though don't know which.

@El Loro posted:

Watched an old episode of The Chase yesterday evening. One of the contestants, Keith, was excellent. I wasn't suprised where he and two other contestants won the final chase with, at the time, a record £50,400.

Keith seemed familiar to me. I have found this old clip on the BBC of him in the general knowledge round of Mastermind.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p048cpgv
 I think I've seen him on other television quiz shows though don't know which.

A ‘professional’ games show contestant El? 

@Moonie posted:

A ‘professional’ games show contestant El? 

He might be. Both programmes I mentioned were made some years ago. It's possible that I saw one of those then and had forgotten.

Amber warning for rain from noon tomorrow to Sunday morning for my area and many other places.

@El Loro posted:

Amber warning for rain from noon tomorrow to Sunday morning for my area and many other places.

 Likewise here too El 

@Moonie posted:

 Likewise here too El 

Not nice weather for us

Evening all 

Sunny but very chilly today. Things have to break down from tomorrow, which probably means six months of rain.

I hope you’ve all had a good day 

@Yogi19 posted:

Evening all 

Sunny but very chilly today. Things have to break down from tomorrow, which probably means six months of rain.

I hope you’ve all had a good day 

Hi Yogi 

We have had rain all day here and the next two day are both amber alert days 

@Moonie posted:

Hi Yogi 

We have had rain all day here and the next two day are both amber alert days 

Hi Moonie 

 That’s not good. I hope you don’t need to go out.

@Yogi19 posted:

Hi Moonie 

 

 That’s not good. I hope you don’t need to go out.

I did enough shopping at my local shops Thursday to last me until at least Monday maybe even Tuesday 

@Moonie posted:

I did enough shopping at my local shops Thursday to last me until at least Monday maybe even Tuesday 

That’s good- we don’t want you getting webbed feet 

@Yogi19 posted:

That’s good- we don’t want you getting webbed feet 

 noooo  

@Moonie posted:

 noooo  

😂😂🤗

@Yogi19 posted:

😂😂🤗

Especially with the size of my feet  

@Moonie posted:

Especially with the size of my feet  

😂😂😂

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie and Ros 

Hug for the night owls 

@Yogi19 posted:

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Moonie and Ros 

Hug for the night owls 

Night night, sleep well, sweet dreams Yogi, Rosss and visitors  

night yogi moonsie summer velvet if you pop in

Good morning everyone it's a windy and cold wet morning. We have a weather warning here too yellow I think. 

Enjoy your day everyone

Good morning everyone

21 mm of rain locally from yesterday to now. Not raining at the time of posting, but the main forecast rain event will start any time now and continue through to tomorrow morning, Met has between 25 mm and 50 mm for the main event.

If you have to go out today or tomorrow take care

I hope everyone has a good day

Good morning everyone  

It’s still raining, not heavy but persistently. Currently calm. Cool but not cold 

Anything from 70% to 95% rain all day here 

I reiterate what El says, if you have to go out today or tomorrow take care 

I hope you all have a safe weekend 

I was able to do my normal Saturday shopping and collect my presciptions without getting soaked as the rain event hasn't started though it will soon.

No suprise, the first T20 semi-final at Edgbaston has been delayed. The forecast for there today is such that the likelyhood of any cricket being played is 0.0000000001%. Tomorrow's reserve day isn't much better.
5 Live Sport Extra would have been following the T20s but instead is streaming cricket from the IPL (Indian Premier League). That's the one which is very wealthy and features cricketers from other countries - Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes for instance.

Well done on doing your shopping and getting your prescriptions in the dry too El 

@Moonie posted:

Well done on doing your shopping and getting your prescriptions in the dry too El 

Thanks Moonie

Re the T20s. Should have been first semi-final followed by the second followed by the final all today.
If those can't happen today or tomorrow then the three matches are each resolved by a bowl-out. It's the cricket equivalent to a football penalty shootout though less interesting. Typically 5 different bowlers from each side bowl at a wicket (but no batsman guarding the wicket). Whichever side hits the wicket the most wins the match. If it's tied after 5 bowls, then it continues on a sudden death basis.

@El Loro posted:

Re the T20s. Should have been first semi-final followed by the second followed by the final all today.
If those can't happen today or tomorrow then the three matches are each resolved by a bowl-out. It's the cricket equivalent to a football penalty shootout though less interesting. Typically 5 different bowlers from each side bowl at a wicket (but no batsman guarding the wicket). Whichever side hits the wicket the most wins the match. If it's tied after 5 bowls, then it continues on a sudden death basis.

I have seen one or two of those bowl-outs El 

@Moonie posted:

I have seen one or two of those bowl-outs El 

But three of them within a few minutes must be unusual

@El Loro posted:

But three of them within a few minutes must be unusual

Positively unheard of El 

Apparently some people with Amazon's Ring smart doorbells have been getting phantom "visitors" with the bell chiming but no-one being there.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54369305

@El Loro posted:

Apparently some people with Amazon's Ring smart doorbells have been getting phantom "visitors" with the bell chiming but no-one being there.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54369305

A ghost in the machine El 

@Moonie posted:

A ghost in the machine El 

 We have a yellow and an amber warning for rain now for today and tomorrow 

@Moonie posted:

 We have a yellow and an amber warning for rain now for today and tomorrow 

Moonie, the amber warning announced yesterday was widened today to cover a greater area. It was amber here already. The yellow warning is also for rain and covers the amber areas (there's also one for parts of east Scotland). So as far as your and my regions are concerned the amber warning overrides the yellow one rather than in addition. The Met Office warnings page shows the warnings on a map so it's a lot clearer than say the BBC warnings which are just the text rather than a map.
Link to the Met Office warnings page:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/w...d-advice/uk-warnings
Click on one of the warnings. You then get text which typically has a very brief summary, then a section "what to expect" followed by "what to do" which is then followed by a "Further Details" link which, once clicked on, gives the text which is much the same as what the BBC shows but also a "Warning impact matrix".
That matrix is colour coded between grey (no warning), yellow, orange and red. The red warning is only given where the weather event is very likely to have a high impact, There's a link there which goes to a guide which goes into lots of information which is interesting but is lengthy.

Cheltenham had another good away win this afternoon and move up to 8th place having played 3 games compared to the teams ahead of them who have played 4. Very early in the season though.

Met Office tend to issue yellow warnings late morning or shortly after noon. Amber warnings much the same though can change at other times if the Met Office thinks it needs to. Red warnings would be issued as soon as the Met Office thinks it has to.

@El Loro posted:

Cheltenham had another good away win this afternoon and move up to 8th place having played 3 games compared to the teams ahead of them who have played 4. Very early in the season though.

Well done the Cheltenham boys 

Evening all 

It has been raining all day and lots more is forecast for next week.

I hope everyone has had a good day, despite the weather 

@Yogi19 posted:

Evening all 

It has been raining all day and lots more is forecast for next week.

I hope everyone has had a good day, despite the weather 

 

Hi Yogi 

it’s been raining non-stop here since yesterday morning 

I have done two smallish lots of washing, which I dried over the radiators. Just two items that will dry later also over the radiators . It’s quite cool here 

Sorry Moonie, I got distracted by Michael Palin 

My washing got thrown into the dryer. Hope your stuff dries on the radiators