Night night, sleep well, sweet dreams Buddies 
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Got an email from Virgin Media overnight explaining why my email account had been locked.
It mentioned that once you've changed passwords, then after 15 minutes your email account is unlocked. They don't mention that on their page of what to do when the account is unavailable. They should do as people must get confused as to why the accounts isn't unlocked straight after changing passwords.
@Moonie posted:Good morning Buddies
Dry sunny morning here though not to warm
Have a nice day everyone
Been out returning some papers back to a client and doing local shopping. Weather similar to yours and I prefer it to tomorrow's forecast which is rain all day long with the cloud keeping temperatures down to a constant 7 degrees from 9 pm this evening to 8 pm tomorrow evening according to the Met Office. Unusual for the temperature not to vary at all which indicates that the cloud must be very thick.
Could explain why the shop was quite busy for the time of day if people trying to avoid going out shopping tomorrow.
@El Loro posted:Been out returning some papers back to a client and doing local shopping. Weather similar to yours and I prefer it to tomorrow's forecast which is rain all day long with the cloud keeping temperatures down to a constant 7 degrees from 9 pm this evening to 8 pm tomorrow evening according to the Met Office. Unusual for the temperature not to vary at all which indicates that the cloud must be very thick.
Could explain why the shop was quite busy for the time of day if people trying to avoid going out shopping tomorrow.
We're due rain all day tomorrow too 
Lovely sunshiny day today though 
@slimfern posted:We're due rain all day tomorrow too
Lovely sunshiny day today though
I prefer the sort of weather we're getting today rather than tomorrow's, there's a yellow rain warning for that for counties south of here.
@Moonie posted:Tomorrow we are going to get a high of 7 degrees and a low of 3 degrees. Cloudy changing to light rain by lunchtime
Sounds as if you're getting better weather tomorrow than I and Slim will be 
@slimfern posted:Yeah we have a warning for heavy rain....not sure how much our river will take before it breaks it's banks again
I was told by a man who had lived nearby for many years before I moved here that there was one time when a brook had broken its banks and the water had reached my road a couple of houses away. That hasn't happened since. That includes the July 2007 floods, The official flood plain includes that brook but ends before the houses closest to the brook.
I think there were major floods in Gloucester back some time in either the late 1950s or early 1960s. The Severn river had broken its banks and had gone down Westgate Street. Flood protection measures have been much improved since then. Could be that it was then that the brook broke its banks.
@El Loro posted:I was told by a man who had lived nearby for many years before I moved here that there was one time when a brook had broken its banks and the water had reached my road a couple of houses away. That hasn't happened since. That includes the July 2007 floods, The official flood plain includes that brook but ends before the houses closest to the brook.
I think there were major floods in Gloucester back some time in either the late 1950s or early 1960s. The Severn river had broken its banks and had gone down Westgate Street. Flood protection measures have been much improved since then. Could be that it was then that the brook broke its banks.
Well I'm glad to hear you live far enough away to be immediately effected by an overflow
Good morning everyone 
The rain band which had been forecast to be wet all day long here seems as if it won't now get as fat north as here. So dry for the time being though there's rain forecast this evening. Still very cloudy keeping the temperature around 7 much of the day.
I hope everyone has a good day
@El Loro posted:Good morning everyone
The rain band which had been forecast to be wet all day long here seems as if it won't now get as fat north as here. So dry for the time being though there's rain forecast this evening. Still very cloudy keeping the temperature around 7 much of the day.
I hope everyone has a good day
Our threat of severe rain seems to have wained somewhat too El 
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If you watch "Only Connect", there was a mistake in Monday's episode. It did not affect which side won though.
In the wall round, the first team first described the group "Tycoon, Dakota, Stagecoach, True Grit" as "Western movies", Victoria Coren Mitchell then said "I need to hear something more". They then said "John Wayne" which was correct and they got the point.
Although "Dakota", "Stagecoach" and "True Grit" are westerns, "Tycoon" (1947) is not. The imdb summary of the plot is "In South America, an American engineer is asked by his boss to build a mountain railroad tunnel following a shorter but more dangerous route." Being set in South America means it's not a western. Film seems to be more of a drama with romance and some action.
A Youtube clip of Psalm 50:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcbKoY7XpJE
It is performed by Trio Mandili, who are a Georgian group. The three women are Tatuli Mgeladze, Mariam Kurasbediani and Tako Tsiklauri according to the Wiki article about the group.
The music was composed by Padre Seraphim Bit-Kharib. He is Assyrian, speaks Aramaic and is now a monk living in Georgia.
@El Loro posted:If you watch "Only Connect", there was a mistake in Monday's episode. It did not affect which side won though.
In the wall round, the first team first described the group "Tycoon, Dakota, Stagecoach, True Grit" as "Western movies", Victoria Coren Mitchell then said "I need to hear something more". They then said "John Wayne" which was correct and they got the point.Although "Dakota", "Stagecoach" and "True Grit" are westerns, "Tycoon" (1947) is not. The imdb summary of the plot is "In South America, an American engineer is asked by his boss to build a mountain railroad tunnel following a shorter but more dangerous route." Being set in South America means it's not a western. Film seems to be more of a drama with romance and some action.
Well spotted El 
It didn't even occur to me 
@El Loro posted:A Youtube clip of Psalm 50:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcbKoY7XpJE
It is performed by Trio Mandili, who are a Georgian group. The three women are Tatuli Mgeladze, Mariam Kurasbediani and Tako Tsiklauri according to the Wiki article about the group.
The music was composed by Padre Seraphim Bit-Kharib. He is Assyrian, speaks Aramaic and is now a monk living in Georgia.
Very soothing ....thanks El
@slimfern posted:Well spotted El
It didn't even occur to me
I had realised the films were John Wayne ones , Slim, I think I might have seen the "Tycoon" one years ago and when "Western" was mentioned I wan't convinced it was a western so looked up the film. It's not a particularly good film, even for fans of his which I'm not. "True Grit" is the best known of the four.
"Stagecoach" (1939) was a good film. Claire Trevor was the lead actress. Unusually for a film of that time, it's quite clear what her "profession" was when near the beginning she's been driven out of town as a result. Avoid the 1966 remake.
Next year the BBC is having a 10 part audio podcast called "Hollywood Exiles". It's being hosted by Oona Chaplin, of of Charlie's granddaughters, it looks as how Charlie Chaplin, became a key figure in a decades-long FBI campaign aimed at rooting out communism from Hollywood. The podcast unravels the real-life events that led to the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings and the era of the infamous âHollywood blacklist.â
Chaplin wasn't on that blacklist but he had left the USA, and as his re-entry permit there was revoked is why he settled in Europe.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacen...ast-hollywood-exiles
Incidentally, Oona's grandmother, Chaplin's 4th wife, was Oona O'Neill, who was the daughter of the playwright Eugene O'Neill. He was of Irish descent. Oona is an Irish name (means lamb).
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A motorway junction which goes nowhere at present:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-67453364
@El Loro posted:A motorway junction which goes nowhere at present:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-67453364
As much as I agree with steering larger traffic like HGV vehicles away from the smaller roads, I'm not a fan of compulsory purchases...I've known a handful of people who had their properties, (homes they have lived in for years, made many happy memories raising their families, spent money & time on making their homes somewhere they wanted to spend the rest of their lives in) taken away from them ...it's very sad to see.
@slimfern posted:As much as I agree with steering larger traffic like HGV vehicles away from the smaller roads, I'm not a fan of compulsory purchases...I've known a handful of people who had their properties, (homes they have lived in for years, made many happy memories raising their families, spent money & time on making their homes somewhere they wanted to spend the rest of their lives in) taken away from them ...it's very sad to see.
I agree with you about compulsory purchases when it applies to people's homes but it seems in this case that homes aren't affected.
I had a look over the South Gloucestershire Council's report on this and it seems to be private roads on various businesses properties and wasteland.
https://beta.southglos.gov.uk/m49-link-road/
Under March 2023 section at the end about a cabinet report and there's a list in appendix 1 of that report.
@El Loro posted:A motorway junction which goes nowhere at present:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-67453364
wow what a shame -down to money as usual