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emmelinemay2007 - This morning on my cycle to work I saw some spak-tacular cycling. Two cyclists who navigated between a dirty industrial HGV and a double decker bus in slow moving traffic. The gap was barely wider than my shoulders, too narrow to cycle, so they both pushed themselves through with one foot on the floor.
And then later, a cyclist who decided to overtake me with inches to spare as I was already overtaking a parked lorry, and therefore already practically in the right hand lane.
Cyclists - we're our own worst enemies. Discuss.
1987 - 20 years ago this month Michael Fish said 'don't worry, there's no hurricane, but it will be very windy, mostly in spain". And then the very next day, this happened.. Most websites claim that Mr Fish was technically correct, as although the wind speeds got up to hurricane force, 'hurricane' is a term used to describe storms that develop in the tropics, and 'The Great Storm of 1987' wasn't technically a hurricane. However, seeing as your average person watching the weather probably doesn't know this, and Mr Fish said 'It will be quite windy, mostly in Spain' I think the 'technically' is the important part of the sentence 'Michael Fish was technically correct'...
You can see Michael Fish's finest hour on you tube.
I remember the storms very clearly. I was 9, and the area where I lived was hit pretty hard - trees down, schools closed (yay!), flooding (we lived on the coast) and incredible scenes of monster waves.
Do you remember 'The Great Storm"?
And then later, a cyclist who decided to overtake me with inches to spare as I was already overtaking a parked lorry, and therefore already practically in the right hand lane.
Cyclists - we're our own worst enemies. Discuss.
1987 - 20 years ago this month Michael Fish said 'don't worry, there's no hurricane, but it will be very windy, mostly in spain". And then the very next day, this happened.. Most websites claim that Mr Fish was technically correct, as although the wind speeds got up to hurricane force, 'hurricane' is a term used to describe storms that develop in the tropics, and 'The Great Storm of 1987' wasn't technically a hurricane. However, seeing as your average person watching the weather probably doesn't know this, and Mr Fish said 'It will be quite windy, mostly in Spain' I think the 'technically' is the important part of the sentence 'Michael Fish was technically correct'...
You can see Michael Fish's finest hour on you tube.
I remember the storms very clearly. I was 9, and the area where I lived was hit pretty hard - trees down, schools closed (yay!), flooding (we lived on the coast) and incredible scenes of monster waves.
Do you remember 'The Great Storm"?
