Capital Summertime Ball 2024

[yorkieboy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8621407.stm

Hope no-one here was affected - the ash looks pretty thick.

[Viv]

Hope so too.

The Welcome_Along was tweeting about this earlier... didn't know what he/she was on about, as I've not got my radio with me. :hahaha:

[Ratscallion]

It all seems very ominous to me...

Hopefully my friend in Antigua, cousin in New York and girlfriend in St Lucia (lucky buggers, the lot of them!) will all get back in time.. Friend isn't so important. The rest, definitely! haha!

If I'm quite honest, I just want to see the ash floating above my house.. Sure, it's probably toxic so I'll have to stay indoors, but it'll be a pretty funky sight! :hahaha:

[yorkieboy]

It all seems very ominous to me...

Hopefully my friend in Antigua, cousin in New York and girlfriend in St Lucia (lucky buggers, the lot of them!) will all get back in time.. Friend isn't so important. The rest, definitely! haha!

If I'm quite honest, I just want to see the ash floating above my house.. Sure, it's probably toxic so I'll have to stay indoors, but it'll be a pretty funky sight! :hahaha:

Every sympahty with your friends and family having to slum it in the Carribean and New York:D

It's so high up that it isn't going to be toxic, don't think we'll be able to see it although apparently makes (and made last night) for a spectacular sunset.

[Ratscallion]

Every sympahty with your friends and family having to slum it in the Carribean and New York:D

It's a tough job... But someone's got to do it! And it isn't bloody me so I really don't care

It's so high up that it isn't going to be toxic, don't think we'll be able to see it although apparently makes (and made last night) for a spectacular sunset.

Well that's rubbish then! If it's going to sunset spectacularly and not threaten my life, at least tell me about it!

[cxx666]

I was told earlier the only way we'd see any of it is if it rained.

I'm half expectin to hear this bein blamed on terrorists or the government :giggle:

[E*F*4L]

hmmm i'm not so sure its a s bad as the boffins are making it out to be :doubt:

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

typical Britain really, crippled by anything slightly out-of-the-norm... first a little bit of snow.. now this.

[cxx666]

Nothing ever is though Alan.

The media gets hold of a story and before you know it the whole country is panicking. This is yet another example of why I don't have any time for the news

[Ratscallion]

Nothing ever is though Alan.

The media gets hold of a story and before you know it the whole country is panicking. This is yet another example of why I don't have any time for the news

Volcanic Ash? About to come and kill us all??!!!

Waaa!! :woo:

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

Volcanic Ash? About to come and kill us all??!!!

Waaa!! :woo:

and the prize for correctly predicting tomorrow's Daily Mail front page headline goes to...

and somewhere in the article, there will be a line something like "this would NEVER have happened if Diana were still here"...

[Ratscallion]

Well bother and blow! Flight control people have suspended flights further, now almost all flights (unless you're going to Ireland and possibly Glasgow) until Saturday.. Rrrrubbish!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8623806.stm

[krazy_chloe]

My friend is stuck in Barbados. I can think of worse places to be stuck, to be honest!

[Dear Greg-]

My friend is stuck in Barbados. I can think of worse places to be stuck, to be honest!

+1

[Ratscallion]

My friend is stuck in Barbados. I can think of worse places to be stuck, to be honest!

Yeah.. Some people get all the luck, like being stranded in St Lucia, or New York. *sigh*

[yorkieboy]

Volcanic Ash? About to come and kill us all??!!!

Waaa!! :woo:

Yes. In other news the Lib Dems are one point behind the Tories in the polls with Labour 6 points behind in first....oh wait!

[Bish]

Got a little joke to keep you all amused: The ash cloud is due to Kerry Katona eating far to many frozen chips in Iceland....

[Tom.]

Yes. In other news the Lib Dems are one point behind the Tories in the polls with Labour 6 points behind in first....oh wait!

labour are now third....

[DarkAngelMJH]

Tweets from @TheStoryMouse

Ouch! I was outside just now and got hit on the head by a lasagne, a pizza & a Vienetta. Must be fall-out from Iceland...

I hear Ryanair is carrying out its own test flight this afternoon, but is charging the authorities £2.50 for dusting the ash off the wings.

[Lucinda]

My aunt was supposed to be arriving here from New Zealand tomorrow morning but her flight's been cancelled.

I think this is an important lesson that we are not more powerful than nature and actually we do not have control over it at all.

[jesss]

Im stuck in Jamaica. Was ment to be going home today but i have no idea when im actually going to be able to leave ://.

[Ratscallion]

Im stuck in Jamaica. Was ment to be going home today but i have no idea when im actually going to be able to leave ://.

You've probably got until at least Thursday. Most flights are either cancelled, delayed and those that are running, you're almost definitely too late to book, they'll be full with either the delayed people, or people that booked several days ago.

[DC]

i might be going away in july, do you think it will be sorted by then. there will be big trouble if it's not, you get me starr?

[Ratscallion]

i might be going away in july, do you think it will be sorted by then. there will be big trouble if it's not, you get me starr?

Haha, sorry to burst your bubble, but last time this same volcano erupted it lasted for 2 years :x

[MrDoovdeHaxorz]

Hmm wasn't it a her-uge cloud of dust and ash that is thought to be one possible cause for the extinction of the Dinosaurs (albeit brought on by impact of an asteroid)?