Things you don't understand watch - have you got things you don't understand?

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JK *chameleon*
JK *chameleon*
Oct 2023
11:27pm, 23 Oct 2023
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JK *chameleon*
[Think it's to do with the slide and the oil on the lanes - but I've not bowled in about 15 years now, a very past life!]
ChrisHB
ChrisHB
Oct 2023
11:34am, 24 Oct 2023
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ChrisHB
Why 53 mm of rain last week left the garden workable, but 6mm last night has made it very difficult indeed.
Diogenes
Diogenes
Oct 2023
11:39am, 24 Oct 2023
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Diogenes
Groundwater levels
ChrisHB
ChrisHB
Oct 2023
1:12pm, 24 Oct 2023
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ChrisHB
no, we have a stream whose level must reflect groundwater levels and it is a good foot lower than where I'm working a couple of feet away from it. However I am also a couple of feet away from where I was working yesterday, so maybe that is the difference.
Diogenes
Diogenes
Oct 2023
1:20pm, 24 Oct 2023
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Diogenes
[The stream doesn't necessarily reflect groundwater levels in the same way. Some soils will absorb high levels of rainfall and release it gradually causing a delayed reaction. Last weeks heavy rain came after a long, dry spell. Yesterday's rain on top of that led to the ground becoming sodden quickly without there being a high level of run-off to top up the stream level. That's my thinking, anyway.]
ChrisHB
ChrisHB
Oct 2023
1:24pm, 24 Oct 2023
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ChrisHB
It's quite possible. Clay turns from impossibly dry to impossibly wet and back again in a couple of days in autumn and spring.
JenHB
JenHB
Oct 2023
5:20pm, 24 Oct 2023
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JenHB
why they decided it would be a good idea to do roadworks on both the public roads giving access to the Boots site in Beeston (and also then access to the A52) at the same time - result: gridlock!
Pou Pou LePhoõk
Pou Pou LePhoõk
Oct 2023
10:24am, 25 Oct 2023
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Pou Pou LePhoõk
Why is unleaded petrol still called unleaded petrol, and not just petrol.
chunkywizard
chunkywizard
Oct 2023
3:24pm, 26 Oct 2023
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chunkywizard
i guess it costs to change signage etc to change it so they haven't bothered.
Diogenes
Diogenes
Oct 2023
3:34pm, 26 Oct 2023
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Diogenes
It's still unleaded. If they didn't say so some people might worry that it wasn't.

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