Update on me!
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curiouswombatHi! I'm happily ensconsed in my hotel room in York, with internet access for the whole time, as I realised that for less than the cost of 5 hours time I could pay for a whole week!
The boat crossing from the island to the British mainland was fine, choppy, but not enough to bother the Ben much at all. The drive down was pleasant enough too - the roads weren't flooded, although there was one place where the fields on either side of the road were.
York is not badly affected by flooding - the river had risen above the walkways on the King's Staith and the Queen's Staith so walking alond at riverbank level was not an option, but whilst the tables and chairs in this picture
were underwater the pub itself was not - and it quite often is if the Ouse is high! Anyone with their car either outside or in the basement car-park of the Queen's hotel might have found the engine, and the rest of it, flooded. The area where the cars in this picture are parked had geese swimming on it.
I forgot to take my own camera when I walked that way yesterday after I arrived - and by today the water level was down by about 5'.
D-d is busy doing 'end of term' things which this evening will involve a bouncy castle and a giant slide - it isn't actually raining yet.....
I, on the other hand, have spent the afternoon in the company of a friend from my own student days who these days lectures at Leeds Met. University, but took the afternoon off from writing references for students and attending faculty meetings, to come up to York and have afternoon tea with me. We compared photos of family members, and discussed work and so on as if it wasn't really 18 years since we had met face-to-face(!), which was really nice.
The boat crossing from the island to the British mainland was fine, choppy, but not enough to bother the Ben much at all. The drive down was pleasant enough too - the roads weren't flooded, although there was one place where the fields on either side of the road were.
York is not badly affected by flooding - the river had risen above the walkways on the King's Staith and the Queen's Staith so walking alond at riverbank level was not an option, but whilst the tables and chairs in this picture
were underwater the pub itself was not - and it quite often is if the Ouse is high! Anyone with their car either outside or in the basement car-park of the Queen's hotel might have found the engine, and the rest of it, flooded. The area where the cars in this picture are parked had geese swimming on it.
I forgot to take my own camera when I walked that way yesterday after I arrived - and by today the water level was down by about 5'.
D-d is busy doing 'end of term' things which this evening will involve a bouncy castle and a giant slide - it isn't actually raining yet.....
I, on the other hand, have spent the afternoon in the company of a friend from my own student days who these days lectures at Leeds Met. University, but took the afternoon off from writing references for students and attending faculty meetings, to come up to York and have afternoon tea with me. We compared photos of family members, and discussed work and so on as if it wasn't really 18 years since we had met face-to-face(!), which was really nice.
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Date: 28/06/2007 05:28 pm (UTC)Hope the bouncy castle doesn't get rained on.
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Date: 28/06/2007 08:41 pm (UTC)It is slightly damp this evening, but not very wet - the slide and the bouncy castle should be fun, but the jeans will be damp in the seat!!
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Date: 28/06/2007 10:04 pm (UTC)to come up to York and have afternoon tea with me.
Betty's?
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Date: 29/06/2007 08:58 am (UTC)Actually we didn't go to Betty's although that had been the original plan - we spent an hour in the quieter surroundings of the Skeldergate centre. This is an ex-church run as a cafe by some of the remaining local churches, where you can get as much coffee as you want and home-made cakes of excellent quality for about 1/4 of what it costs in Betty's - but we chose it because we wanted to sit and gossip. You don't feel that you are taking up valuable space once you've finished, which you do at Betty's, not that Betty's staff give that impression - it is the hard stares from all the people queueing!
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Date: 29/06/2007 08:30 pm (UTC)I hope tomorrow's rain doesn't create too much more flooding. Ideally it would be good if the Met men had got it wrong just a little!
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Date: 01/07/2007 07:58 am (UTC)You'd be very welcome to some of the rain.
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