Heavy storms hit the UK!

[Dingo40]

Our sympathies, guys!
See here (sample only):

Two storm deaths in Scotland as new red warning issued

The Met Office has issued a new red "danger to life" weather warning for some eastern areas on Saturday.

www.bbc.com

 

[Ventura]

get the Women, Children and Hohners to higher ground lads !

 

[Rosie C]

Our sympathies, guys!

See here (sample only):

Two storm deaths in Scotland as new red warning issued

The Met Office has issued a new red "danger to life" weather warning for some eastern areas on Saturday.

www.bbc.com

Fortunately it's been fine where we live, but Scotland and northern England have had it pretty hard.

 

[vivdunstan]

Yes I’m in Angus in Scotland where it has been especially bad. We are lucky to live near the top of a hill. But even in our town on the edge of Dundee city people have been evacuated from their homes by boat. Brechin a bit further north has been especially badly flooded.

My husband and I expected we would lose power but luckily didn't, though many locally did. I was even contemplating how feasible it would be to play accordion by candle light, and if eg I would be able to read sheet music!

 

[Rosie C]

Playing accordion by candlelight does sound like a way to make the best of things. Keep safe and I hope things improve soon!

 

[Ffingers]

Playing accordion by candlelight does sound like a way to make the best of things. Keep safe and I hope things improve soon!

Candles are redundant when you play by ear

 

[vivdunstan]

Candles are redundant when you play by ear

I’m a mix of playing by ear and playing from music. But I do like to peek at my keyboard from time to time. And certainly don’t want to play in the pitch dark with no lights on!

 

[Rosie C]

Candles are redundant when you play by ear

Chance would be nice! I've just finished my first essay of the term all about the pitfalls of not being able to play by ear when you want to play folk music

 

[Dingo40]

Be very careful with candles: they have a nasty reputation for burning down houses!

 

[Dingo40]

A long story, but a workmate burnt down not just one but two houses, successively, due to candles.
The insurance company was not so understanding on the second occasion and made things verrry hard!

 

[Rosie C]

It's easily done. Several jobs ago we had what we thought was a "fire drill", but when we got outside we saw the roof was ablaze - a plumber had been careless with a blowtorch.

I'm the sort of person who forgets to blow a real candle out, so I have LED ones, and an electric wax-melter instead.

 

[Ffingers]

Well, as the sign in the room in a 1950s boarding house read: “No naked flames and no bits of fluff under the bed!”

 

[Dingo40]

Scenes of flooded houses in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire in today's BBC 10 O'clock news.

 

[Ffingers]

Scenes of flooded houses in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire in today's BBC 10 O'clock news.

...an' tha was us cumplehnin' tha' we couldna mek't ta Venice this year!