Catch All - the place for anything you want to discuss off a specific topic

[mickthemaverick]

Do we have an Off Topic conversation area? So things like this can be continued elsewhere without stopping the topic?

Not as such but it is a good idea, I'll set one up and call it 'Catch All' and maybe An admin can move the last few posts to it for us?

Here it is:

viewtopic.php?p=774909#p774909

[mickthemaverick]

Hopefully this will help keep other topics better organised !!

[Rp0thejester]

Hopefully so, it seems alot of topics/blogs get muddled into conversations which go in a completely different direction, so this is basically a chat room?

[Michel]

Hopefully so, it seems alot of topics/blogs get muddled into conversations...

Yes, but that's what makes the FCF what it is, I can do without the rigid formality of most fora.

[mickthemaverick]

Hopefully so, it seems alot of topics/blogs get muddled into conversations...

Yes, but that's what makes the FCF what it is, I can do without the rigid formality of most fora.

I agree there Mike, but sometimes we do rant on so off topic that the original thread gets lost. As Neil says for example the POTD thread is meant to be basically pictorial with the odd comment, not the sort of ramblings that we have followed over there today!!

[bobins]

I was working in greenhouses on the south coast. You can imagine what that looked like 'the morning after'

Did you become a glazier?

Working in greehouses I was already well versed in glazing, but after the Storm I became very proficient with glass
We used to grow the bedding plants for the council..... that autumn they decided it'd be a very good idea to plant a very mixed display as all the wallflower plants ended up somewhat 'random'

[Rp0thejester]

Lmao, was the storm that bad?? I'm now looking at trees near my house.....

[mickthemaverick]

Have a look at this Ryan and you'll get the idea:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-41366241

[bobins]

Lmao, was the storm that bad?? I'm now looking at trees near my house.....

For our northern correspondents, it was probably akin to a light summer breeze but for us down on the south coast it was very grim. I think they reckoned it was the strongest winds for 250 years - couple that with the rain soaked and soft ground and the fact that 'down here' are (were ?) the most wooded counties in the UK and the trees still had a good covering of leaves.... it was somewhat devastating.
Jim took a photo of the Shoreham lighthouse (that I reposted somewhere), and behind that was the new lifeboat station. I think the original lifeboat house recorded one of - if not the - highest winds of the storm. It was either there or The Needles on the I.O.W. that recorded a high gust then the anemometer got blown away in the winds


Edit. Thanks to Mick's link of the BBC article I can confirm...... "A maximum gust of 115mph was recorded at Shoreham in West Sussex"

[Rp0thejester]

Hopefully so, it seems alot of topics/blogs get muddled into conversations...

Yes, but that's what makes the FCF what it is, I can do without the rigid formality of most fora.

I agree, the rigid form is aweful but at the same time I don't think it's a good idea to destroy a topic that people want to post to. I think an area to chat about whatever is probably a good idea so people can continue to discuss something away from the topic and continue the conversations they were having without diluting the original topic. JMO

[Rp0thejester]

I'm now very worried about this storm....

[bobins]

BTW, Down in Littledick'am a few days ago they had a tornado go through. It's the second one in a couple of months down here. Climate change ? What's that then ?

Tornado leaves trail of destruction in West Sussex town
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-67254819

[bobins]

I'm now very worried about this storm....

Blimey, you'll be well away from all the action up there

[mickthemaverick]

Fortunately you have the Chilterns protecting your area Ryan so the wind speeds will not get up to South Coast levels, a few loose tiles and the odd sapling may suffer but I doubt there will be too much around Hitchin and Letchworth.

[Paul-R]

The existence of this topic raises an interesting philosophical question. Could a thread dedicated to off-topicness go off-topic?