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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2008 7:05:05 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2008 7:45:56 GMT
Barry.... them in London are warmer than us further north.
It's b*****d freezing up here in the City of Bloxwich of the West Midlands.
Ecca
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Post by kipper on Dec 30, 2008 9:39:19 GMT
hi barry ecca is right the weather in the south is normaly a lot warmer than midlands and it gets colder the further north you go. i was in austrailer melbourne in the 80`s and remember someone telling me about how hot it got when the north wind blows, and boy it was like an hair drier had been switched on. its the opposite here a frezzing chill. today its frezzing were i live ground lightly frozen over. but we are made of tough stuff here in the south of england. how does the heat effect the wood on your guitars over there, do the necks move much? peter
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2008 10:23:01 GMT
HI ECCA&PETER ,,, well we do get frosts in the winter here in the mid-north of ''SA'' ,BUT I did not mention the heatwaves we have ,I don't know what would be worse the extreme heat or you freezing weather, YOU must have huge heating ''bill's'' to pay?  .. As for guitar wood as they are inside the house I don't notice any thing I would think the tropic's would play havoc because of the humidity ,,,peter,, melbourne is a much colder wetter state than sth-aust.. we are having a most mild christmas as usually it's stinking-hot but its been 24-30c most day's CHEERS & BEERS guy's have a good ''09''..............barry.. |
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Post by UK Brian on Dec 30, 2008 11:02:12 GMT
Cor, that sounds luvly, warm breezes an all that, up here in sheepland Anglesey, it is [glow=red,2,300]COLD[/glow] and I mean cold, no doubt Geordie person will be colder than me LOL..anyway gotta get my thermal gloves ready for the new year gig ;D
Brian
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Post by kipper on Dec 30, 2008 13:10:32 GMT
hi barry it was the humidity i was thinking of just coudnt think what it was called ( having a senior moment). as for heating bills its all just gone up over here so we are expecting some big ones this year. reguards guitar wood moving, because of central heating you have to be a bit carefull it does tend to dry the wood out a bit. i had one crack at the joint once my own fault. it was a cheap one and did not effect the playing of it,. but lesson learned i keep a couple hanging in my room where there is little heat, or put them in there cases when not being used for a while. peter
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Post by alanmckillop on Dec 30, 2008 18:34:31 GMT
-6.5 degrees up here today, but my son had -16 deg. in Indiana, USA a couple of days ago, now that's cold.
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Post by solidlg on Dec 30, 2008 20:55:42 GMT
Well Guy's,
Today in Toronto it's quite balmy, -3c with a wind chill of -10c, now tomorrow they promise a -10 during the day and -15c for the evening new years party at Nathan Philips square downtown Toronto, where quite a number of acts will be performing with heaters blasting away behind them.
Yesterday and the day before we had between 85km and 100km per hour winds which I guess were blowing in the cold weather while ripping chunks of my house.
So chap's, don't moan about how cold it is because soon we will be down in the -20c range again and that will last until at least the end of Feb.....feeling warmer now are we :-))
But as my old dad used to say " There's no weather in pubs"
All the best
Steve.
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Post by didier on Dec 30, 2008 21:03:41 GMT
Not better in France, icy roads all around Paris...
Didier
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2008 22:23:53 GMT
HI FELLS"S ,,,well the coldest it get's here at my place is -1 in the morning in time of frosts for about 2 hour's in the early mornings in winter when sun comes up its all gone!!!!! .. I have a wood-fire here in the winter months,but the heat is the worst as its very hard to cool, the house & air-con is the only way,but we have a small one but not much good in the prolonged hot day's... well that's one thing we can't control is the ''WEATHER'' we have to accept what comes.. BRIAN , I hope the venue is ''heated'' for your gig ,maybe they will hand out ''snifter's'' of that internal heating? ??.. ALLAN,'' kilts'' would be out for the winter ''shurly''@ -6.5 thats real ''brass-monkey''-weather mate... PETER talk about senior-moments I am I continuous -senior-moment .HA.HAAAR.. DIDIER,, take it easy on the roads mate that's greased-lightning driving on them icey road's ,real-ralley driving stuff.. HAVE A GOOD NIGHT to all on ''new-years-eve''our's here is 15 hour's away,,,,,,,,,,,barry.. |
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Post by UK Brian on Dec 31, 2008 9:50:27 GMT
Ahaaaa dont we all feel sorry for old Barry there in Oz, i mean all that heat to contend with ( [glow=red,2,300]luvly[/glow] ) yeah Barry there will be a hot time in the club tonight, mind you with my illness of late I havn't touched the guitar for 3 days now :-( had no inclination, hope I still remember how to do it normally before a gig like this ( about 3 hours work ) we run thro stuff, personally I prefer the 1 or 2 spot gigs of 1/2 hour each, more drinkin time ;D ;D ;D  Hope you had a good new year ( cos yours has gone now ) and didn't get too drank ;D  May I wish a great new year to all friends on the forum here,and may 2009 bring us all we wish for, cheers all Brian |
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Post by rhando on Dec 31, 2008 23:51:25 GMT
We've got -20 today in Montreal with wind chills of -31 forcast overnight and it hasn't even started to get cold yet!!
Minus 30 in the winter with ten feet of snow and plus 35 and humid in the summer.
If you could experience wind chills of -45 to -50 it would really give you some idea of what the folks went through that settled this country....................they had nothing!!!!
What a tough bunch they must have been, absolutely remarkable.
Ray.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2009 10:10:32 GMT
WELL RAY ,you are right mate we are ''wimps'' compared to our forebear's.. we have been slowly ''spoiled'' as the years go by, modern technology,,,BUT saying that I don't mind my warm-house...& a few mod-con's? A 69 yearold wimp from ''OZ'' but I have done a few ''hard-yard's'' over the year's ...barry'' |
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Post by UK Brian on Jan 1, 2009 11:34:57 GMT
Yeah right on Barry, I think us lot " the oldies at any rate" will all have donw some "hard yards" I can remember the group in the 50's 60's goin round in the van with a little parrafin stove in the front footwell to try and give some sort of heat so we could do a bit of practice on the way to gig's gawd, it was a bl***y cold time when the trees stayed sparkling white for weeks on end, no bugs tho' no colds flu an all that stuff.
Well I guess the revellin is over now and we can all get back to normal.
Cheers to everyone on here
Brian
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Post by rhando on Jan 1, 2009 14:57:30 GMT
Yes guys you are right. I guess old timers like us  have all paid our dues. I remember coming to Canada in November 1957 from Hampshire. I was 11 years old and we had no idea what was in store for us. That year was one of the coldest on record, we had temperatures of -35 and -40 ...........what a shock. To earn a bit of money I used to go out shoveling peoples driveways and paths and I used to wear "wellies" of all things, because that was what I was used to wearing back home. So to try and keep my feet warm I would wrap them in newspaper and then put my "wellies" on. Strange to say I kind of miss those days everything was so much simpler then. Anyway I still shovel snow, keeps me fit. I've got my "Strat" and a nice warm house.........I'VE GOT IT MADE!!!! Ray. ;D |
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