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Ping: our Scottish Friends: Storm Desmond?
Ophelia wrote:
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> "dsi1" > wrote in message
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>> On Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 2:55:13 PM UTC-10, wrote:
>>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 12:38:44 -0800 (PST), dsi1 <>
>>> wrote:
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>>> >The more formal redneckese would be "all y'alls."
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>>> I just heard about the farmer in Cumbria who had to watch all his herd
>>> carried away with storm waters and now can't believe his luck that
>>> some forty odd have been found varying miles down stream, I'm happy
>>> for him.
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>> Me too. A guy losing his flock and then finding them again sounds like
>> something you'd read in the bible. 
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> They were actually quite scattered and he found one about 20 miles away
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-35038180
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> "There again, I went to see a farmer at Langwathby whose 45 in-calf heifers
> had gone into the river. He'd been searching the river banks and managed to
> find 41 of them.
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> "The amazing part is two were found at Crosby-on-Eden, which is north of
> Carlisle, some 18 miles downstream I worked it out as. One was quite happily
> grazing on the golf course."
all we like sheep have gone astray :-]
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