Crap weather for August 2026

Sunny and quite warm here, bit windy.

Just been out to Accrington (Accrington Stanley? Who are they? Exactly!) to a scrappy to pick up a replacement sliding door and passenger door for one of the vans. Cheaper than paying 90 quid for delivery.

Apart from the scrapyard, which was rough as a badger's arse, the bits of Accrington we saw were actually quite nice. Found a McDonald's for a Big Mac and a cappuccino and sat outside while the scrap blokes dismantled their van. Very pleasant in the sun, even if the people there looked a bit weird.

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

Sunny and quite warm here, bit windy.

Just been out to Accrington (Accrington Stanley? Who are they? Exactly!).

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Did you know? - One of the lads in that ad is currently doing 18 years for murder (Mer-da!)

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Did you know? - One of the lads in that ad is currently doing 18 years for murder (Mer-da!)

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Ah, di-do-dough, don't di-dough... No I did not know that, but random information is always welcome :)

In the late 70s I briefly dated a student nurse who had moved from her hometown of Keswick to a houseshare in Old Swan. She had a copy of this on the communal coffee table:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/...1L._SY425_.jpg

Ha - I'd like to read that book, compiled by Macca!:D

19°C and cloudy.

Marco.

14c with short showers

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Ha - I'd like to read that book, compiled by Macca!:D

19°C and cloudy.

Marco.

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I read it many years ago although that one says 'volume 2' so maybe not that one. It has some anachronisms, like 'Jigger' meaning an alleyway which I never heard anyone ever use in the 18 years I lived there, and 'The Cazza' meaning the Cast Iron Shore which is long, long gone.

Dull here and doesn't look likely to improve. 20.9C indoors have had to put a fleece on. Probably means I won't feel the benefit when we get real cold weather, but what can you do?

Thunderstorm warnings for tomorrow and Thursday. Doubt it will happen, they just get your hopes up on false pretences.

You don't sound Scouse when you're speaking, but can you put it on if you want?:)

Marco.

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You don't sound Scouse when you're speaking, but can you put it on if you want?:)

Marco.

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Yes. The cleaner at the last place I worked was very impressed by my ability to slip in and out of scouse at will.

I've never heard you do Scouse. I'd assumed you'd had it beaten out of you at Uni. Or in electrocution lessons.