There's been some repartee between other urglers and myself over
the issue of winter gales, which seem to be much worse in the UK
than we usually get here.

Well now you can all laugh hysterically at me: we had a real
blast come in off the Pacific Ocean yesterday and one of my
coldframe covers blew off. Not just blew off; blew away, utterly
away, so completely away that it is the windborne analogue to the
Monty Python parrot of fame.

It is a gone coldframe cover, lost, strayed, disappeared, never
to be seen again.

Such is life.


--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

In article , Rodger Whitlock
writes
There's been some repartee between other urglers and myself over
the issue of winter gales, which seem to be much worse in the UK
than we usually get here.

Well now you can all laugh hysterically at me: we had a real
blast come in off the Pacific Ocean yesterday and one of my
coldframe covers blew off. Not just blew off; blew away, utterly
away, so completely away that it is the windborne analogue to the
Monty Python parrot of fame.

It is a gone coldframe cover, lost, strayed, disappeared, never
to be seen again.

Such is life.


Gone?

Holy Mackerel, Flying Coldframe Covers.

:-( Hope nobody or anything was hurt/damaged when it landed

Mike

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In article ,
Rodger Whitlock wrote:
There's been some repartee between other urglers and myself over
the issue of winter gales, which seem to be much worse in the UK
than we usually get here.

Well now you can all laugh hysterically at me: we had a real
blast come in off the Pacific Ocean yesterday and one of my
coldframe covers blew off. Not just blew off; blew away, utterly
away, so completely away that it is the windborne analogue to the
Monty Python parrot of fame.

It is a gone coldframe cover, lost, strayed, disappeared, never
to be seen again.

Such is life.

Well, I hope that it is easy to replace. Was it a lightweight job,
or a traditional timber and glass one? If the latter, then you get
some quite impressive winds :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
Email:
Tel.: +44 1223 334761 Fax: +44 1223 334679

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:16:46 +0000, Mike
wrote:

In article , Rodger Whitlock
writes

It is a gone coldframe cover, lost, strayed, disappeared, never
to be seen again.

Gone?

Yep, not a trace.

Holy Mackerel, Flying Coldframe Covers.

:-( Hope nobody or anything was hurt/damaged when it landed

The operative word is "where", not "when".


--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

On 17 Dec 2002 09:46:04 GMT, (Nick Maclaren)
wrote:

In article ,
Rodger Whitlock wrote:

It is a gone coldframe cover, lost, strayed, disappeared, never
to be seen again.

Well, I hope that it is easy to replace. Was it a lightweight job,
or a traditional timber and glass one? If the latter, then you get
some quite impressive winds :-)

It was a very light one glazed with "Coroplast" (two-layer
translucent plastic).

I think we've had stronger winds but this one was exceptionally
gusty, and quite violent for this early in the winter.

I did have a big 4.5'x4.5' cover blown off a frame a couple of
years ago, but it landed in a big bush of Fuchsia 'Molinae' and
came to no harm. And I'd left the thing propped open, so what did
I expect?

--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

"Rodger Whitlock" wrote in
message ...
There's been some repartee between other urglers and myself over
the issue of winter gales, which seem to be much worse in the UK
than we usually get here.

Well now you can all laugh hysterically at me: we had a real
blast come in off the Pacific Ocean yesterday and one of my
coldframe covers blew off. Not just blew off; blew away, utterly
away, so completely away that it is the windborne analogue to the
Monty Python parrot of fame.

It is a gone coldframe cover, lost, strayed, disappeared, never
to be seen again.

Such is life.
Rodger Whitlock

Well it won't be pushing up daisy's at this time of year.........:~)
Jenny