The Virtual Lounge

[blissgirl]

Anyone here ?

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[pgn]

So you yearn for the old days, but won't go back because returning to the present would be too much of a kick in the solar plexus. 

Yeah, if I had it all over again, I don't think I'd try to change anything either.

That said, I would not want to inflict my mental image of how things were onto anyone else - none of this "we won the war" ****, there be Dragons of all sorts down that path 😮. 

[Cleoriff]

I don't actually yearn for the good old days @pgn , I just remember them with great fondness.

[pgn]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

I don't actually yearn for the good old days @pgn , I just remember them with great fondness.

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Me too, @Cleoriff - fond remembrance, that's a good way to describe it. 

[Mi-Amigo]

I, too, have some fond memories of my past - but that doesn`t mean I want to relive them in today`s environment

[pgn]

Lots of water up around @Anonymous's way - I hope she is OK!

[Anonymous]

Thank you for thinking about me @pgn 

Yes, the railway system has sufferred a lot with delayed and cancelled trains

Thankfully my home is on relatively high ground 

There have been flood aleviation schemes put into Skipton a few years ago

There is a locally famous photo of barrels of beer floating around the town centre

It has become very slippery underfoot where the leaves, mud and water have all come together 

[pgn]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Thank you for thinking about me @pgn 

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Just read about your O2 Surprise - sounds like lots of people think about you this week 👍

Yes, floods are never nice - they hit our village in August 2 years ago - awful damage. Thankfully we are high enough up to miss it, only just. I did have to park the car about a mile away, and a tractor offered us a lift, one at a time, fordibg the large lake that formed across the main road into the village, at around 2am - younger daughter first, me about 20mins later. She was most embarrassed about being dropped off by a loud tractor at our front door. 

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/watch-drone-footage-captures-extent-of-flooding-across-parts-of-northern-ireland-36060925.html

Hopefully we never see the like again. 

[Anonymous]

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@pgn wrote:

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@Anonymous wrote:

Thank you for thinking about me @pgn 

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Just read about your O2 Surprise - sounds like lots of people think about you this week 👍

Yes, floods are never nice - they hit our village in August 2 years ago - awful damage. Thankfully we are high enough up to miss it, only just. I did have to park the car about a mile away, and a tractor offered us a lift, one at a time, fordibg the large lake that formed across the main road into the village, at around 2am - younger daughter first, me about 20mins later. She was most embarrassed about being dropped off by a loud tractor at our front door. 

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/watch-drone-footage-captures-extent-of-flooding-across-parts-of-northern-ireland-36060925.html

Hopefully we never see the like again. 

People here are very kind thinking about me at pesent @pgn yourself included, and I am very grateful

Just awful the flooding you are referring to

It's the Aire valley which floods hereabouts easily making travelling very difficult

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[Cleoriff]

Just watched it on the news. Areas of Derbyshire, Doncaster and Sheffield under water. Limited or no warnings given. A real tragedy.

[ComaChameleon]

@Cleoriff 

is it because of severe rainfall?

Guys... Last night I dreamed something weird. I don't remember much of it... Just that I went to a pub in Ireland and surprise, surprise... @jonsie  was there... So even my sleepy brain connects him to party and booze XD