Since we've been relaying the pitch this week, what sort of weather have you had up there? What effect does heavy rainfall have on recently layed turf? Any groundsmen out there?

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

Answers

Absolutely P@ssing down.

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

Windy ;-)) If the weather's anything like it is up here in north Northumberland, whatever they've laid will probably have ended up on South Shields beach by now.

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

the bit from in front of the East Stand has just landed in my back garden

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

It's a mite breezy, all the way from Tynedale to Durham. Thought I saw a small dog and a house from Kansas sweep by earlier.

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

if you find my red shoes then drop me a note

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

T-shirt weather then, by the sounds of things ;-) Shearer better not use his brolly, or we'll be hearing the Mary Poppins jibe again.

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

Well, bless my soul...

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

There's a long cobbled driveway appeared near my house this morning. Funny yellow cobbles too. Wonder where it goes?

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

But we've got a dome!
http://www.nufc.co.uk/images/news_story_pics/wc_020114/nufc_dome .jpg

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

a bloody great dome has now appeared in my front garden ??

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

Macbeth - where would you like me to send these red high heels, fish- net stockings and cape that I think belong to you?

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

Just had a power-cut ay home (thank goodness for battery powered laptop). Bliddy typical mind - me new telly's due to be delivered tis afternoon and I forgot to ask for the optional wind-up model :-(

Hmmmm- I think I just saw MacBeth land on wor front lawn

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

Screach, You could find a way to sort out your power problems - if you only had a brain. :o))

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

well my (new) house just shook and shook and when I went out there are 6 tiles sitting in the garden, and it doesn't sound liek its getting any better,

where did I put that dome

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

my desk is shaking here, and it's not me that's doing it

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

My desk is shaking as well! I can see SJP oot the window - I'm keeping a lookout for flying domes!

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

There was a disconcerting rattle from the skylight in the common room here. All the more disconcerting given I was sat right under it!

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

christ now I've got a pile of rusty old cans blown into the garden looking very like the shape of a heartless man

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

On a serious note, watch yourselves up there. There are accidents being reported all over the area.

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

Found my brain and decided to use it. Only phone in the hoose was cordless, which is useless in a power cut. Drove to Alnwick to buy a new one but had to move 2 stonking big branches off the drive before I could get oot. Two roads blocked by fallen trees and a lorry on its side on the A697. More evidence of vehicles blown off the road. No sign of MacBeth. I think he must be in Holland by now.

PS. Cancel that invitation for drinks Pilgrim ;-)

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

We've lost two glass windows in the shed and a perspex sheet out of the other shed. The TV aerial on the roof has collapsed and is dangling dangerously from it's cable, and I nearly got blown away walking across the field at lunchtime. Bastard wind.

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

Now don't be like that strawman. I'd keep this going but I haven't got the nerve!

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

we're in the midst of a new set of houses and one looks very close to losing its chimney

the main dual carraigeway into Dunfermline is closed, as I predicted to my wife this morning. They are building a new big office at a business park on the brow of the hill, nothing of comparable height between here and Stirling so a nice 20 mile straight stretch for the wind to get going in, the new building had all the metal work for the roof carefully placed on its frame and spent the day having it converted into missiles.

Not nice to be out

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002

Aw buggar ahve lost me garage roof. All the asphalt has blown off.

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2002