Michelle Fulton writes

We definitely have more experience at "summer" than you, Jim, but I couldn't
manage if it rained here as much as it rains there. It may be that I grew
up where the sun shines over 300 days a year, but I get depressed if it's
cloudy for more than a couple of days. Actually, I think I suffer from sun
deprivation.

Oh, it's not as bad as jim makes out.

Most years he gets to see the sun several times, often for an hour or
more at a stretch. Sometimes it isn't even raining at the same time.

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"Oz" wrote in message
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Most years he gets to see the sun several times, often for an hour or
more at a stretch. Sometimes it isn't even raining at the same time.

LOL :-) You guys are cracking me up today :-) Laughter is good for the
soul!!

M

"Oz" wrote in message
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Gordon Couger writes

The more I learn about the EU and UK the more baffled I am by the way
they
do things. You sit on an island and twice in the last century your food
supply was nearly cut off by the Germans and you don't consider
agriculture
important to support a minimal research effort.

This is so. That's because 99% of the population are more than 3
generations away from any farming activity. I am, for example. Food is
what you buy in a supermarket, and it's always overflowing with produce.

And always will, right?

In this country baring a
volcanic eruption that distorts the climate for 2 or 3 years or a drought
of
biblical magnitude we have no problems with food security and we put a
petty
high value on agriculture research and cut the farmer a lot more slack
than
he really disserves.

Maybe. Sounds like nirvana to me.

How bid a spread would you like. Give me what you want and I be we can have
5 or 10 that will do in 60 days,

Gordon

Michelle Fulton wrote in message
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"Oz" wrote in message
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Most years he gets to see the sun several times, often for an hour
or
more at a stretch. Sometimes it isn't even raining at the same time.

LOL :-) You guys are cracking me up today :-) Laughter is good for
the
soul!!

although we do literally have days when you literally do not see the
sun. Winter with heavy cloud cover can be worst for this, the sun is out
there but just never breaks through.


--
Jim Webster

"The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind"

'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami'



M

Michael Percy wrote in message
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Jim Webster wrote:

ours rarely cling to the greasy pole so long. It is most unlikely
that
a politician who gets to the top will still be in a position of
power
20 years later. They are either knifed in the back by those coming
up
from below or broken by the public and media who have discovered
something in their past.

Does the level of brutality and corruptness of the english people
concern
you?

No

the last thing you want is a population that trusts its politicians. We
had one in 1914 and lost more men in one day that the US lost in the
entire vietnam war. Trusting politicians is like believing in Father
Christmas. It is OK for Kids, adults can pay lip service to it, but no
rational person factors it into their budget.

We do get some who hang on, like Ted Heath who was still in the
House
of Commons in his 80s but he hadn't had any real office for nearly
30
years.


I expect due to the two wars the UK and EU demographics are
different
than
US and the teeny boppers are a much larger part of the voting
population. I
never considered that. That would explain a lot, an awful lot.

God help you.

Actually world wars give you a population with a high proportion of
single women in their fifties. Our population in Europe is aging
rapidly, one of our more serious problems.
But saying that the second world war did have a very serious effect
in
Europe. What Americans do not realise is tha WW2 was also a European
civil war between socialism and fascism and socialism won.
We ended up with a population that believe they have a right to be
fed,
that water is free, (and god help anyone who is trying to make a
profit
out of it) and that all the utilities are rights.

Do you feel a part of it?

not especially.


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Jim Webster

"The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind"

'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami'

Jim Webster writes

although we do literally have days when you literally do not see the
sun.

Come off it jim.

Even here we have had over a month with no sight of the sun.

Where you are .....,

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don't even need to by as high as 90 inches, add in the right (or wrong)
soil type and you have problems with cropping at 48", unless it falls at
just the right time. Over here on the west side of the UK a lot of land
has too much water for arable cropping.

There's a big cranberry crop this year.

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