Get the Buckets Ready

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  1. Fidgetsmum

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    There's no shortage of petrol so stock up now and ..... create one
    There's insufficient water in our reservoirs so ban hosepipes and ..... watch it rain until - well you think of a date
     
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      Jiffy The Match is on Fire

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      It's the wettish drought on record :cool::snork: :dunno::ideaIPB::rolleyespink:
       
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        The ground is soo dry deep down the rainwater is not soaking down to it, so it runs off the surface...
        We have now covered so much of britain in concrete, roads & buildings that it cannot soak in & certainly doesn't do any good when it hammers down as all it can do is run off the fields & roads.. We really need days of steady gentle rain to be of any real use to the ground..
        30 odd yrs ago I used to live in what they call the "Cotswold Watershed" area..... It has now shrunk & dried so much I know live near it...!!!!
        We just take it for granted that enough will fall out of the sky to fill our resevoirs.. it probably would be enough if it could get into the ground... Instead it just runs off into our storm drains....!!

        We really need to put the brakes on our building in this country & try & conserve what we have left now of Britains green & pleasant land for our grand children & generations to come or there will be nothing left..!!!!!!

        As for gulf stream, don't knock it, it is the only thing that stops us having the same weather as Canada & NewFoundland & keeps our seas warm.....!!!
        If the Gulf Stream shifts we are going to be looking & a very cold & icey Britain again & paintings of the Thames & other rivers being frozen over by feet of ice in the winters again could be a reality.... Back in the 1400s it was a regular occurrance..!!!!! :sad:
         
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          Anyone else got the WEATHERHUMP today?

          1) no - I don't want to do anymore colouring in my Christmas colouring book:th scifD36:
          2) no - I don't want to play snakes and ladders with you:th scifD36:

          I JUST WANNA GO OUT TOPLAY.

          and if I can't , I'm just gonna sweeem and SWEEEM AND SWEEMuntil I make myself sick:cry3:

          so there!!
           
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            :lunapic 130165696578242 5: :lunapic 130165696578242 5: Love it Jenny..!!!!
             
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            And the number of people in the world :oopss:
             
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            That would help too.... :sofa:
             
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            Drought Stricken Somerset a few minutes ago,

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              Just been reading about that http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17836246

               
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              Whoa...that's not good:frown:
               
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              Is anyone else thinking words like Paradox & Oxymoron?
               
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              I'm thinking watch out for the 300mm long leeches that are now wriggling all over the place

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                Blimey, you been walking on the beaches again.

                Now thats gotta be bait for something.
                 
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                So where will we house all the immigrants, and our single mums

                It is no use promising homes to single mums if we do not have any houses
                As it is no use inviting immigrants, come to the UK and claim benefits beyond your dreams, err we have not got a home though
                Fields of tents
                Or see sence and stop it all now

                One of the worst decissions the present Gubernment have made
                Is they have now stopped paying the landlords the housing benefit, and given the cash to the claimant, so they can learn to pay the rent themselves :-) NO CHANCE

                The money will go on drink, ciggs, and big screen TVs with every SKY CHANNEL POSSIBLE so they can lay back on their free furniture and watch it all day
                Cook a meal what's that, just order a takeaway

                Jack McH
                 
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