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General => The Shed => Topic started by: Rhubarb Thrasher on July 15, 2009, 14:12:21

Title: St Swithin's Day Today
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher on July 15, 2009, 14:12:21
    St Swithun's day if thou dost rain
    For forty days it will remain

it dost be rainyeth  ???

Title: Re: St Swithin's Day Today
Post by: Digeroo on July 15, 2009, 14:19:03
Bad luck. 

St Swithin's day if thou be fair......
For forty day twill rain nae mair.

Thou be fair here.

So the met office have got it wrong for rain on Friday then.
Title: Re: St Swithin's Day Today
Post by: littlebabybird on July 15, 2009, 15:24:14
well i guess we are going to be very wet
Title: Re: St Swithin's Day Today
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher on July 15, 2009, 15:59:46
it doesn't seem fair that we've got a choice between forty days of rain or 40 days of drought, just because someone got buried in the wrong place 1200 years ago. Talk about bearing a grudge
Title: Re: St Swithin's Day Today
Post by: Hector on July 15, 2009, 16:08:11
Quote from: Rhubarb Thrasher on July 15, 2009, 15:59:46
it doesn't seem fair that we've got a choice between forty days of rain or 40 days of drought, just because someone got buried in the wrong place 1200 years ago. Talk about bearing a grudge

"Grave" consequences then  :P
Title: Re: St Swithin's Day Today
Post by: saddad on July 15, 2009, 16:54:30
I'll be getting some scuba gear off E-Bay then...  :-*
Title: Re: St Swithin's Day Today
Post by: manicscousers on July 15, 2009, 17:29:17
rained this morning, fine this afternoon, what does that mean  ???
20 days of rain and 20 days of drought?  ;D
Title: Re: St Swithin's Day Today
Post by: lushy86 on July 15, 2009, 17:31:43
I'll get me brolly!  ;D
Title: Re: St Swithin's Day Today
Post by: Digeroo on July 16, 2009, 18:44:07
Fine yesterdat, rain today, this saint guy is loosing his touch. ;D ;D ;D