Paris: hottest day of the year

Tim C. wrote:

Following up to (David Horne, _the_
chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy)
:

I lived in Norway as a young child! England is famed for its grey days
by people used to sunnier weather, sure, but I don't know why it gets
singled out. Scotland is statistically 'greyer.' London, that dark place
you single out so often, has more sunshine annually than Paris or
Berlin!


Not according to the BBC weather stats:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/c...ml?tt=TT003790 ...

London has sunshine 48hrs/year,
Paris and Berlin both 59hrs.

I'd seen that too, but the guardian story I mentioned must have got the
figures from somewhere. The 'average day' thing, I don't understand
though, so that might be it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/st...330397,00.html

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Following up to Martin :

On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:42:51 +0200, Tim C.
wrote:

Following up to (David Horne, _the_
chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy)
:

I lived in Norway as a young child! England is famed for its grey days
by people used to sunnier weather, sure, but I don't know why it gets
singled out. Scotland is statistically 'greyer.' London, that dark place
you single out so often, has more sunshine annually than Paris or
Berlin!


Not according to the BBC weather stats:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/c...ml?tt=TT003790 ...

London has sunshine 48hrs/year,
Paris and Berlin both 59hrs.

I suspect those figures are rubbish. Remember when the BBC was a
responsible source of information? They've mixed up daily averages
with monthly averages.

Bugger, now you point it out, the Big Mistake was mine.
I added up each month's daily average. That's what happens when you don't
get enough coffee.
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On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 23:46:05 +0100,
(David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and
prestwich tesco 24h offy) wrote:

Dave Frightens Me wrote:

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 23:23:57 +0100,
(David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and
prestwich tesco 24h offy) wrote:

Dave Frightens Me wrote:

England is famed for
it's grey days, and if you think it's otherwise, you have lived in
Norway too long!)

I lived in Norway as a young child! England is famed for its grey days
by people used to sunnier weather, sure, but I don't know why it gets
singled out. Scotland is statistically 'greyer.' London, that dark place
you single out so often, has more sunshine annually than Paris or
Berlin!

Cite? I can find nothing that says that.
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Martin wrote:

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 23:23:57 +0100,
(David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and
prestwich tesco 24h offy) wrote:

Dave Frightens Me wrote:
[]
Frankly I don't care what the weather is, as long as it's not
perpetually grey like London and Manchester. Oops,,, sorry, wrong
thread.

Don't worry, it's only _perpetually_ grey when you're there, and
thankfully you're not!

Have you ever wondered if DFM is confused about the
countries/supermarkets that he has visited?

Frequently.

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Cite? I can find nothing that says that.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/st...330397,00.html

I didn't realise that doctors don't like to vote in the UK.
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Tim C.

Martin wrote:

On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:56:17 +0200, Tim C.
wrote:

Cite? I can find nothing that says that.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/st...330397,00.html

I didn't realise that doctors don't like to vote in the UK.

It's something to do with living in perpetual darkness.

And perpetually looking for decent reggiano.

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On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 09:31:14 +0100,
(David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and
prestwich tesco 24h offy) wrote:

Martin wrote:

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 23:23:57 +0100,
(David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and
prestwich tesco 24h offy) wrote:

Dave Frightens Me wrote:
[]
Frankly I don't care what the weather is, as long as it's not
perpetually grey like London and Manchester. Oops,,, sorry, wrong
thread.

Don't worry, it's only _perpetually_ grey when you're there, and
thankfully you're not!

Have you ever wondered if DFM is confused about the
countries/supermarkets that he has visited?

Frequently.

I'm confused as to how you guys can misread and then misquote what I
say.
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"Dave Frightens Me" wrote in
message

There you go, exaggerating to prove your point. England is famed for
it's grey days,

We even used to have a comedian, Larry Grayson, whose catch-phrase was
"What a grey day".

Ian

"Martin" wrote in message
...

His other
memorable phrases included 'What a gay day'

Oh, is that what it was? ;-)

Personally, I preferred his friends Slack Alice, Everard and Pop-It-In
Pete.

Ian

"Martin" wrote in message
...

WTF are Alice & Pete?

(Imaginary) people.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/featur...-grayson.shtml

Ian