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Old 12-12-2007, 09:20 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Same as it was here. Not a cloud in the sky despite the fact it rained yesterday.
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Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM.
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Old 12-12-2007, 07:59 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Not a cloud in the sky here either. but thats because its struggling to get above 6C and its FECKIN FREEZING!!!!!!!!! Too damn cold for snow, and its given it to get colder.
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Old 14-12-2007, 05:34 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Had a bit of snow today, we have more coming this weekend. The current view from my front steps.
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Old 14-12-2007, 05:51 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Looks like you've got some more shovellling to do!
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Old 14-12-2007, 06:34 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Heat wave here!

1730 Friday here and I am sweating like a pig in 35C heat.
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Old 14-12-2007, 07:16 AM   #16 (permalink)
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1615 and 25C here and I'm about to go on a river cruise that will stretch into the night.

Hope the Goofingtons don't find us!
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Old 14-12-2007, 08:22 AM   #17 (permalink)
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1615 and 25C here and I'm about to go on a river cruise that will stretch into the night.

Hope the Goofingtons don't find us!
Chicken & Champagne down to Freo?
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"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

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I hate you all. The Ozzies are warm, and the Yanks have got snow. I HATE YOU!!!!!
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Its not snowy where i live but has been rather Icy this morning.
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Oh yes, the term Brass Monkeys does come to mind.
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