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Hello, The first spots of rain in Holbrooks.

Here too. We must be at different ends of the same band.

Nothing here in parched East Midlands 🥵

So far you haven't missed much. There's been enough rain to make it muggy but not enough to water the plants.

Hello West Midlands weather forecast Sunday 22 Jun - Thursday 26 Jun Headline: Sunny spells, with developing showers in the west. Feeling fresher. Today: Bright or sunny spells for many on Sunday, skies turning hazy at times, with showers developing across parts of Shropshire and Herefordshire into the afternoon. Feeling fresher than of late with a strengthening southwesterly wind. Maximum temperature 23 °C. Tonight: Mostly dry overnight with clear spells, however showers in the west will tend to sweep east, these becoming locally heavy for a time. Minimum temperature 13 °C. Monday: A bright start for many on Monday with sunny spells and a few isolated showers. Cloud will thicken from the west late in the afternoon with light rain arriving overnight. Maximum temperature 22 °C. Outlook for Tuesday to Thursday: Largely cloudy on Tuesday with patchy outbreaks of rain and drizzle, chiefly over western hills. Remaining changeable Wednesday and Thursday with spells of rain or heavy showers. Updated: 05:00 (UTC+1) on Sun 22 Jun 2025

We have proper rain now in Tamworth

As opposed to improper rain AnneW?

I can think of an example of improper rain but I'd have to use asterisks The temperature since Sunday morning sees me much improved. Ahhhhhhhh.

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There's a shop in Plymouth called Proper Pasties. I was tempted to ask them if they knew where I could buy fake pasties. Supermarkets get me. There are signs everywhere for Fresh Fish, Fresh Meat, Fresh Vegetables, Fresh Fruit and so on. I'm always tempted to ask an assistant where I can find the stale stuff. Which reminds me of how place names originated. It was explained on the radio, years ago, Noel Edmonds IIRC, that it was practice to let meat mature to enhance the flavour. They used to tie joints of meat up with rope and hang it from beams to mature, which is where NottingHam got its name. But if they left it to hang for too long, it went past its best, so they sent it up north, to OldHam. After that, when putrefaction was well under way, and it was no longer fit for human consumption, it was exported. They sent it by ship to RottedHam.

Ha ha ha ha ha oh he he he Thanks Slim. I needed a good laugh. But is it all true ?

None of it. The bit about Nottingham was a Noel Edmonds joke. Or an attempt at a joke. The Oldham bit is one I thought up, to extend the logic. But an old school friend had to go one better, hence the Rotterdam.

Nottingham used to be called Snottingham.

Hello, I thought it was Dottingham. Anyway, Video forecast.