Rained on 12 times per year?

[domtyler]

Just been to the park for a picnic for my lunch....

Gay!

 

[spindrift]

"Birmingham" was originally "Spermingham" because of the residents fish-like qualities- the "S" was dropped after a concerted campaign bitterly opposed by the residents of Scunthorpe.

 

[cannondale boy]

12 times in a year...you should be so lucky! I don't care if it rained everyday i would still cycle, and the rain would cool me down.

 

[fossyant]

Gay!

With my wife and kids..................they came down to work !

 

[Mr Pig]

leeching off the work of the good people who defeated Hitler.

Sorry, but how exactly did they 'defeat' Hitler? From what I have gathered they sat there, staunchly I'll grant you, while the moustached midget bombed seven shades of shengus out of them. I thought that Hitler was defeated by hordes of allied soldiers who battered their way across Europe and took his toys off him.

I'll need to take my kids to London sometime, none of them have ever been. A weekend there should stop them moaning about Scotland forever!

 

[HLaB]

Typical, I had to do a site visit this afternoon, by the time I got back to the office it was shut with the bike locked in the garage. I had to take the pool car home:-( its finally stopped turned out to be a beautiful evening. :-(

 

[Plax]

Only those who have only ever lived in London think it's not rubbish.

It is.

+1
London is over rated. Blow your nose and your snot comes out black, it's that polluted. People aren't very friendly and it's expensive.
Cymru am Byth is what I say
Come here and you'll get rained on a minimum 24 times a year!

 

[Ludwig]

London, quite simply, is the the financial and creative engine that has made made Britain one of the most powerful nations in the world. Welfare and public sector dependent regions, like the parts of the north, Scotland and Wales rely hugely on the wealth generated by London's financial centre. And how many tourist actually visit places like Birmingham compared to London. London we salute you!

 

[Mr Pig]

London is the the financial and creative engine that has made made Britain powerful

So? The engine of my car is what makes it move, but I wouldn't want to live in it! The people slogging away in filthy old London pay for the rest of us? Great, thanks a lot :0) I'll think about you whilst I'm riding past the sheep and horses that live over my back fence ;0)

Talking of which, I rescued a Ram today. It had its horns tangled in a fence and was going mental trying to free itself. I tried to untangle it but the thing was going to break my fingers the way it was battering itself about so I cut the fence wire with my Leatherman tool.

 

[Lardyboy]

After the kick start that it got from the Industrial Revolution that was centred around the Midlands.

And a few other places too. Don't remember reading about that many steel works or coal mines in London?

 

[Downward]

Every time I have cycled to Work this Summer it's rained.
Technically the 1 Rainy day in 3 is untrue up here in Birmingham.

 

[a_n_t]

After the kick start that it got from the Industrial Revolution that was centred around the Midlands.

I think the northern mill towns would argue that point! What happened in the midlands then? Apart from pottery?

 

[Downward]

I think the northern mill towns would argue that point! What happened in the midlands then? Apart from pottery?

Arkwrights Cotton Mills were built in Cromton Derbyshire which pretty much revolutionized the Cotton industry

 

[a_n_t]

hardly the midlands though surely?

 

[ufkacbln]

With my wife and kids..................they came down to work !

So Child Labour is still rife in Brum?