Canaldrifter

Passed a convoy of ten Surrey CC tippers loaded to the gills with
sandbags, heading out on the M3 towards Basingstoke last night.
Bearing in mind they were going into Hampshire and the drivers must
have been on overtime at that time of night, set me wondering where
they were off to in such urgency. Maybe the southern rivers are
beginning to overflow too.

Tony H

Pete Stockdale

"Martin" <me@address.invalid> wrote in message
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> Portsmouth and the continong as part of a newly developed export trade?
> --
>
> Martin



Bartering them with the frogs in exchange for fresh water ?

Pete

Martin

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:17:17 +0100, "Pete Stockdale"
<peter.jeanne@btopenworld.com> wrote:

>
>"Martin" <me@address.invalid> wrote in message
>news:nedha3hdgooecjptp77nqk0f5uv7apfrc4@4ax.com.. .
>>>
>> Portsmouth and the continong as part of a newly developed export trade?
>> --
>>
>> Martin
>
>
>
>Bartering them with the frogs in exchange for fresh water ?

The frogs already control much of the UK drinking water supply.
--

Martin

Pete Stockdale

"Martin" <me@address.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:17:17 +0100, "Pete Stockdale"
> <peter.jeanne@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Martin" <me@address.invalid> wrote in message
>>news:nedha3hdgooecjptp77nqk0f5uv7apfrc4@4ax.com. ..
>>>>
>>> Portsmouth and the continong as part of a newly developed export trade?
>>> --
>>>
>>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>>Bartering them with the frogs in exchange for fresh water ?
>
> The frogs already control much of the UK drinking water supply.
> --
>
No wonder it is such a shambles !
You will be telling me that G.B.s grandad was a Parisian shortly - no
doubt.
Pete

Pete Stockdale

"Steve Atty" <nospam@tty.org.uk> wrote in message
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> or maybe they are going to build a big wall round Basingstoke...
> --
>
After moving it to Surrey first perhaps !

Pete

Malcolm Nixon

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:23:16 +0200, Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:


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>The frogs already control much of the UK drinking water supply.

Not up here Martin - we still have a publically run water supply in
Scottish Water - but there has been talk of privatisation.

--

~Malcolm N....
~

Martin

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:35:36 +0100, Malcolm Nixon <malcolm@mgnixon.org.uk>
wrote:

>On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:23:16 +0200, Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>The frogs already control much of the UK drinking water supply.
>
>Not up here Martin - we still have a publically run water supply in
>Scottish Water - but there has been talk of privatisation.

It's time Scotland became independent before the corruption overwhelms you all
too.
--

Martin

Uncle Marvo

In reply to Martin (me@address.invalid) who wrote this in
m5jja3d4388dq097cimatkde9mtu6jgfbc@4ax.com, I, Marvo, say :

> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:35:36 +0100, Malcolm Nixon
> <malcolm@mgnixon.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:23:16 +0200, Martin <me@address.invalid>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> The frogs already control much of the UK drinking water supply.
>>
>> Not up here Martin - we still have a publically run water supply in
>> Scottish Water - but there has been talk of privatisation.
>
> It's time Scotland became independent before the corruption
> overwhelms you all too.

I think this new Brown bloke is quite good.

I think he has some moral fibre unlike the last chap who IMHO was as bent as
a nine-bob note.

[waits to be proved wrong]

Martin

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:52:30 +0100, "Uncle Marvo"
<paul.r@deletethisbitfortescue.org.uk> wrote:

>In reply to Martin (me@address.invalid) who wrote this in
>m5jja3d4388dq097cimatkde9mtu6jgfbc@4ax.com, I, Marvo, say :
>
>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:35:36 +0100, Malcolm Nixon
>> <malcolm@mgnixon.org.uk> wrote:

>I think he has some moral fibre unlike the last chap who IMHO was as bent as
>a nine-bob note.

The last bloke had a weakness for modeling himself and his policies on the
previous regime.

Mrs T thinks he was the best PM since herself.
Dutch politicians said he was the best European politician in the last 20 years.

>[waits to be proved wrong]
>

By quoting some of your old posts? :-)

Have you watched George Galloway's suspension speech on utube.com or read it in
Hansard? What a pity they kicked him out before he had got through the whole
list.
--

Martin

Canaldrifter

On Jul 27, 12:23 pm, Martin <m...@address.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:52:30 +0100, "Uncle Marvo"
>
> <pau...@deletethisbitfortescue.org.uk> wrote:
> >In reply to Martin (m...@address.invalid) who wrote this in
> >m5jja3d4388dq097cimatkde9mtu6jg...@4ax.com, I, Marvo, say :
>
> >> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:35:36 +0100, Malcolm Nixon
> >> <malc...@mgnixon.org.uk> wrote:
> >I think he has some moral fibre unlike the last chap who IMHO was as bent as
> >a nine-bob note.
>
> The last bloke had a weakness for modeling himself and his policies on the
> previous regime.
>
> Mrs T thinks he was the best PM since herself.
> Dutch politicians said he was the best European politician in the last 20 years.
>
> >[waits to be proved wrong]
>
> By quoting some of your old posts? :-)
>
> Have you watched George Galloway's suspension speech on utube.com or read it in
> Hansard? What a pity they kicked him out before he had got through the whole
> list.
> --
>
> Martin

TV recently showed a 4 yar old lass weeping her eys out because Tony
wasn't PM any more. "Why?" "Because I love him!" It was suppose to be
one of those 'aaah' moments, but I think it illustates the average
mental age of his followers.

Tony H

Adrian Stott

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:12:37 +0100, "Neil Arlidge"
<neil@tuesdaynightclub.co.uk> wrote:

>There is a conspiracy theory going round why Oxford flooded....
>
>Before the Henley Regatta, the EA knew rain was forcast.
>Water was dumped before the Regatta, being held back during the regatta....

This is a persistent accusation, that comes up in various places every
time there is a flood.

However, it is almost always untrue. In many cases it cannot be true.

The nearly universal approach is to get the water away down-river as
quickly as possible. Also, there really isn't enough room to store
(hold back) that much water. Once the level rises about the crest of
the relevant weir, it isn't possible to hold it back any more anyway.
Also, opening the weir, even fully, at that point will add only a
small amount to the volume going downstream. The ratio between normal
flows and flood flows can be enormous, certainly one but sometimes
(almost) two orders of magnitude.

Adrian





Adrian Stott
07956-299966

Neil Arlidge

Adrian Stott wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:12:37 +0100, "Neil Arlidge"
> <neil@tuesdaynightclub.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> There is a conspiracy theory going round why Oxford flooded....
>>
>> Before the Henley Regatta, the EA knew rain was forcast.
>> Water was dumped before the Regatta, being held back during the
>> regatta....
>
> This is a persistent accusation, that comes up in various places every
> time there is a flood.
>
> However, it is almost always untrue. In many cases it cannot be true.
>
> The nearly universal approach is to get the water away down-river as
> quickly as possible. Also, there really isn't enough room to store
> (hold back) that much water. Once the level rises about the crest of
> the relevant weir, it isn't possible to hold it back any more anyway.
> Also, opening the weir, even fully, at that point will add only a
> small amount to the volume going downstream. The ratio between normal
> flows and flood flows can be enormous, certainly one but sometimes
> (almost) two orders of magnitude.
>
> Adrian

I believe one of the conspiracy theorists is a Thames lock keeper...
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