what our corner of the world looks like at the moment

GAHHH! That's evil, that is, showing us all that snow just out of reach. Damn the 23.5 degrees...1 more would have done it probably...

O.O i want 23.5 degrees!!!! i hate cold. shall we swap?

I don't think we're talking about the same 23.5 degrees. I'm talking about the angle of the earth off perpendicular to its movement plane. Not about cold.
(BTW, 23.5 degrees is considered normal if not a bit cold here (I think), cuz that's what we have now and it's night and it's a bit wintery^^)

ok, we weren't. but i wasn't that wrong

About what?

well I'll just take my 50 degree heat and droughts thank you very much

Well talking about temperatures, my personal opinion is that the moderate ones start at about 18 degress Celsius. Below that, it is cold. Not to say freezing. But as long there's a roaring fire in the right place, I just don't care about outside temperatures.

here the outside tempriture kinda defines the inside one..seeingas the walls are a framework of wood with plaster board over the top (seriously, internal walls have no bricks here) so untill the aussies learn to make houses that dont deorem in hot tempritures i'm afraid keeping a house cool is an interesting feat

Do what the smart Aussies do and become a troglodyte. Apparently its not that expensive and you never have a problem keeping you 'house' cool.

and how pray do they beocme troglodytes?

holy crap, i think we just had a small earthquake. ill update more later.

how big?

4.2 Richter. I never felt it. I was asleep^^

yeah i slept through one too, came to syd from newcastle..twas interesting...but quite nasty up north

it's raining now,it was sunny yesterday

cos MONDAY follows SUN[y]DAY

how astute

quite

I belive summer has begun here proper now.

did summer ever end there?

HEY! I nearly froze to death! went down to like 15 degrees, I tell you two dunas is/are* not enough

*make up your minds england and email me the official version for the week

oooo,15 degrees,that's cold eh?what you think of that english people?15 is like a walk in the park,the worst i've ever been involved with is -4 while camping,not fun.

worst I've ever had was like -10 back home

then why you worrying?

I never worry

then stop complaining

I wasn;t

whateva vanessa,it's a beautiful day outside and i plan on using it,maybe you should get your pasty complexion into the sun every now and again

hey, I get my vitamin D when I walk my dog

we crossed the 0° line yesterday and are now moving at around 0, + - some degrees.

next time u say degrees, use units. I though your we walking around the earth and then i thought uwere talking about the earth's angle of precessions relative to the normal plane of the orbit (think about it)

Why would ratty go to the equator? And without notifying us first?^^

I meant the grenwitch line

ratty,what are you doing at 0 degrees?

freezing i assume

are you on holiday at the moment?must be to be travelling

well, actually i was at the greenwich line. i spent the weekend in wincanton, for hogswatch. but i did mean °C and dibbler is right, i'm freezing.

but you're in De now right?

yep, returned last night.

so how was GB?

meanwhile, in BD and dibbler's corner...
remeber that earthquake we had a coupla of weeks ago? well, some more, all week ones (3 to 4.1), but it looks like theyre just little intros for a big one. now, the good news is that the really big quakes, those that really hurt cities and suchlike, only happen every 80-90 years around here. the bad news is that the last big one was in 1927, and OH GOD WERE ALL GONNA DIE!!

how bad are we talking here? 7, 8 what? surely not a 10

That was the one that ruined Tiberias?

Are we actually having all these earthquakes? No fair. I never notice them. You're probably inventing them all to scare me. It won't work.

it was a 6.5, somewhere near jericho. 500 dead, 700 injured, lots of damage.i might have to change my previous statement to OH GOD SOME OF US ARE GOING TO DIE, SOME MORE ARE GOING TO GET HURT AND SOME PEOPLE'S HOUSES ARE GOING TO FALL!!. not really catchy, is it?

have you tried wailing in Iambic pentameter? or make it rhyme at least

I didn;t know jericho still existed

let's hope that it won't happen again. *hopes*

pffft, buger off Israel, you're old news, here's some fresh stuff:

the north island of NZ just got hit with a 6.3 but no tidal wave warning was issued.

it's hitting -9 up here in chilly scotland, which is good, cos i am like a troll, preferring the absolutely baltic temperatures we get here!

it's hot here...just...hot

good news for the kiwis, though damage is estimated in the millions, the only casualty was an old woman who died in a heart attack right after the quake?

Rain...a lot of rain...