Salesman bob are you ok

Max Hedges · #1 12-10-06, 11:28

heard it got pretty hot over your way today you can keep the hot weather over there if you like we don't really need it

They were talking over this way that your neck of the woods broke a 100 year record for the hottest day in October.

It's five weeks and two days since we had any rain here and water is getting to be a problem for many people already.

Max

Keith Webb · #2 12-10-06, 11:37

We broke the existing record for Oct 12th (36.6C) and came close to breaking the record for October altogether (36.9) set in late October 1914. Records here go back some 115 years.

Current temp in Melbourne at 7.35 is still 33.

No rain in sight here either. Bushfires in Gippsland and Tassie today too.

We had a tiger snake move across the path in front of the house last Saturday, so it's an early season indeed.

Hope you get some good rain soon, Max.

Max Hedges · #3 12-10-06, 12:10

Keith we only made it to 30C today.
the warm weather is sure bringing them snakes out, another brown today and also saw one yesterday.
Max

Jon Skagfeld · #4 12-10-06, 16:13

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Originally posted by Max Hedges
Keith we only made it to 30C today.
the warm weather is sure bringing them snakes out, another brown today and also saw one yesterday.
Max

Hmmm...Environment Canada has issued a severe weather watch for all of Southern Ontario. Up to 15 mm of snow driven by SW 70 km winds.

I just mounted my snow tires yesterday, fortunately.

What a difference 20,000 km makes, eh?

Vic Eaton · #5 12-10-06, 19:06

weather uk
No snakes no snow and thank the lord the heat has gone a lot of rain now lovely warm oct and my truck is running fine what more could a man ask for .
vic eaton uk.

Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) · #6 12-10-06, 19:54

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Originally posted by Jon Skagfeld
Hmmm...Environment Canada has issued a severe weather watch for all of Southern Ontario. Up to 15 mm of snow driven by SW 70 km winds.

I just mounted my snow tires yesterday, fortunately.

What a difference 20,000 km makes, eh?

Been watching your pending doom on the TV weather every day... good thing we picked LAST weekend to get the work done, eh?

Pretty soon we can avail these Ozians with tales of the - gasp - dreaded southern Ontario... SNOW SNAKE...

PS: How's your wasp collection coming?

Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) · #7 12-10-06, 19:59

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Originally posted by victor eaton
.... what more could a man ask for .

Er... a 5'8" blonde in a too-tight set of coveralls, blowing you kisses from the back of a CMP, hair streaming in the wind?

Just a thought...

Pete Ashby · #8 12-10-06, 20:17

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Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Er... a 5'8" blonde in a too-tight set of coveralls, blowing you kisses from the back of a CMP, hair streaming in the wind?

Just a thought...

My dear Chap do get a grip............ this would be awfully distracting from the real business of discussing the finer points of CMP manufacture and restoration.

There is a place and time for frivolity like this........ and it is Not in the back of a CMP !!

the chequer plate leaves marks Old Boy

Pete PTO&G with Bar

Richard Farrant · #9 12-10-06, 22:37

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Originally posted by Pete Ashby
Not in the back of a CMP !!
the chequer plate leaves marks Old Boy

Speaking from experience, Pete?

Bob Moseley (RIP) · #10 12-10-06, 23:59

Hello Max and others
Been b@#%dy hot over here coupled yesterday with very strong northerly wind. Second hotest October day on record. Half of Ada's pea straw mulch is now residing in the neighbours property. But look what the hot weather has brought out. It's a lot cooler this morning which, if you were here, you could see by the chest bumps in the T-shirt.
Bob

Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) · #11 13-10-06, 03:01

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Originally posted by Pete Ashby
My dear Chap do get a grip............ this would be awfully distracting from the real business of discussing the finer points of CMP manufacture and restoration.

There is a place and time for frivolity like this........ and it is Not in the back of a CMP !!

the chequer plate leaves marks Old Boy

Pete PTO&G with Bar

Now, THAT's a challenge if I ever heard one.....

Mike Kelly · #12 13-10-06, 05:11

Yesterday ,

Clouds of smoke from a bushfire were visible , 20 km North East of here up at Tanjil Bren . Another big fire got to within 2k of Moe. Wind gusts up to 80 kmh .

Been listening to the fire services on my radio scanner , lots of activity , dozers called in , aircraft spotting fires . It is still ongoing as I write this . Luckily , the wind has dropped today .

Mike in Gippsland .

Jon Skagfeld · #13 13-10-06, 05:23

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Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Been watching your pending doom on the TV weather every day... good thing we picked LAST weekend to get the work done, eh?

Pretty soon we can avail these Ozians with tales of the - gasp - dreaded southern Ontario... SNOW SNAKE...

PS: How's your wasp collection coming?

Yeah, we got hammered, just like it was reported. Indeed, fortunate that we got done what had to be done last week-end.

He he he...snow snakes indeed, not to mention yellow snow!

Wasp collection...they've gone to ground with the sub-zero temps.

Max Hedges · #14 13-10-06, 05:55

well it;s that flamin windy here it's blowen the drop bears out of the trees, I saw one go past and I reckon he came all the way from SA ,he was wearin one of Bob's hats.
Max

Lynn Eades · #15 13-10-06, 06:24

Its been blowin' a gale here too, although I haven't seen any Koala's go past. Apart from a severe gust the other night while in bed (and Chris complained about it too) this would have to be one of the windiest days, that I can remember. We used to blame the Russians for these things.... Who do we blame these days?

#16 13-10-06, 06:39

Oh Lordy, Lordy, Lordy and whatever in Laird Tunderin' BeJaizus, have you's people been ingesting of late, ennaways??? Surely it's not pepper elst it'd be stilling the tongues, I can tell you

Ma

#17 13-10-06, 06:40

summmmmmers gggggoooonnnne

#18 13-10-06, 06:41

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Originally posted by Bob Moseley
Hello Max and others look what the hot weather has brought out. It's a lot cooler this morning which, if you were here, you could see by the chest bumps in the T-shirt.
Bob

PS: I love the lizard thingy

Lynn Eades · #19 13-10-06, 08:48

It has a pretty blue coloured tongue, me thinks

#20 13-10-06, 09:06

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Originally posted by Lynn Eades
It has a pretty blue coloured tongue, me thinks

They're awesome

I used to love catching salamanders on Vancouver Island when I lived there as an adolescent/teen. They were tiny though. I think lizard creatures are fascinating. And that one has a blue tongue you say? BOB ... next time get it to stick out it's tongue (like this

) so we can see if it's blue, or not ...

That creature that Bob is holding is BIG ... and obviously isn't dangerous to pick up, unlike the snake over there that Keefy told me about

MAX, did you rescue Bob's hat for him?

Karmen.

Max Hedges · #21 13-10-06, 10:58

naw, he was usin it as a hang glider.
Max

sapper740 · #22 13-10-06, 16:37

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Originally posted by Jon Skagfeld
Hmmm...Environment Canada has issued a severe weather watch for all of Southern Ontario. Up to 15 mm of snow driven by SW 70 km winds.

Jon, Autumn has struck Texas with a vengeance also. I had to wear a sweatshirt to work yesterday for the first time this season. A cold front blew through and the highs were only in the 70's! Brrrrr! Thankfully, we're expected to get back up to the mid 80's by the weekend.

CHIMO!

Ken Hughes · #23 13-10-06, 21:09

hey people, wednesday it snowed and then we had high winds fanning three fires ,then yesterday ,friday we had 29 deg celcius ,weird weather!.

Vic Eaton · #24 13-10-06, 21:48

What happens when you are laying under your truck and one of these many scary looking snakes turns up for company i have a struggle getting from underneath mine these days is there a quick exit plan that i dont know about
vic uk.

Richard Farrant · #25 13-10-06, 22:02

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Originally posted by victor eaton
What happens when you are laying under your truck and one of these many scary looking snakes turns up for company i have a struggle getting from underneath mine these days is there a quick exit plan that i dont know about

Don't worry, Vic, you would not have a problem getting out, if a snake came along

In my apprentice days in agricultural engineering, working inside combine harvesters, you would sometimes hear a rat in there, I can assure you I would come out of them like a cork from a bottle.

Richard

Vic Eaton · #26 13-10-06, 22:20

HELLO RICHARD
Yes im not a lover of rats i have two domestic rats if you can call them that about three feet away from me at this moment they belong to my daughter who walks around the house with them climbing all over my fear is spiders just cant take to them although i dont kill them there was a huge one in the bath the other night why the devil they have to come up through the plug hole beats me he went out the same way he came in only wetter some of the insects these put on here must be a little unerving did you see the snakes skin on the dashboard
vic uk.