During the night, I learned the true meaning of 'squall' and 'buffet'! The
violent squalls were buffeting the sides of my house all night long. Any
poor wretch outside would have been blown from pillar to post. I thought it
was Spring, but Winter seems to have returned with a vengeance!

The only problem I have was deciding whether to describe the sqalls as
contunuous or continual...

jim

Jim xzy wrote in
. 4.11:


During the night, I learned the true meaning of 'squall' and 'buffet'!
The violent squalls were buffeting the sides of my house all night
long. Any poor wretch outside would have been blown from pillar to
post. I thought it was Spring, but Winter seems to have returned with
a vengeance!

The only problem I have was deciding whether to describe the sqalls as
contunuous or continual...

PS... it has also been raining continually for the past week. I'm wondering
if we are still technically in a drought!

Jim

On 25 Apr 2012 07:18:26 GMT, Jim xzy wrote:

Jim xzy wrote in
.4.11:


During the night, I learned the true meaning of 'squall' and 'buffet'!
The violent squalls were buffeting the sides of my house all night
long. Any poor wretch outside would have been blown from pillar to
post. I thought it was Spring, but Winter seems to have returned with
a vengeance!

The only problem I have was deciding whether to describe the sqalls as
contunuous or continual...

PS... it has also been raining continually for the past week. I'm wondering
if we are still technically in a drought!

Jim

It's the wrong sort of rain.
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mogga wrote in
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It's the wrong sort of rain.

Don here it was the wet variety, and many inches of it, over the past
week...

Jim

On 25 Apr 2012 10:59:06 GMT, Jim xzy wrote:

mogga wrote in
news

It's the wrong sort of rain.

Don here it was the wet variety, and many inches of it, over the past
week...

Jim

Ah, you see, that's the problem - the rain was wet! Because the ground
is so dry and caked hard in so many areas, the rain needs to be only
damp to give it a chance to soak in. Wet rain just runs off.

Cheers, Jake
=======================================
Urgling from the asylum formerly known as the
dry end of Swansea Bay.

Jake wrote in
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On 25 Apr 2012 10:59:06 GMT, Jim xzy wrote:

mogga wrote in
news

It's the wrong sort of rain.

Don here it was the wet variety, and many inches of it, over the past
week...

Jim

Ah, you see, that's the problem - the rain was wet! Because the ground
is so dry and caked hard in so many areas, the rain needs to be only
damp to give it a chance to soak in. Wet rain just runs off.

Cheers, Jake
=======================================
Urgling from the asylum formerly known as the
dry end of Swansea Bay.


How true! From my memory that is.

Baz

On 25/04/2012 08:15, Jim xzy wrote:
During the night, I learned the true meaning of 'squall' and 'buffet'! The
violent squalls were buffeting the sides of my house all night long. Any
poor wretch outside would have been blown from pillar to post. I thought it
was Spring, but Winter seems to have returned with a vengeance!

The only problem I have was deciding whether to describe the sqalls as
contunuous or continual...

jim


Nah, Jim, you've got it all wrong: 'Squall' is what next door's baby
does all day long; buffet is delicious (usually) and not a subject for
complaint ;~).

Now, then (concentrates), I believe 'continuous' means
unending/unceasing/without pause; 'Continual' means ongoing but with
occasional periods of cessation.

For example, my marriage to RG is continuous; his moaning is continual ;~)!


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