Just a glimpse...

[lonelymom]

The whole house shakes, the windows rattle, the trees bend alarmingly - every instinct tells you to hide!

Cool!! I love a good storm (from the safety of inside my house, of course)

[J.R.]

The whole house shakes, the windows rattle, the trees bend alarmingly - every instinct tells you to hide!

Cool!! I love a good storm (from the safety of inside my house, of course)

Same here !

[englishangel]

All of us love storms and can frequently be found outside to watch them.

[Ajarn Philip]

All of us love storms and can frequently be found outside to watch them.

I rather suspected I might be misunderstood! I used to live on the seafront in Dover and loved to watch storms approaching across/along the Channel. I'd love to see someone going outside to watch a tropical monsoon storm at its height - it would be like Mary Poppins without the umbrella, or wossername with the red shoes on the Yellow Brick Road; "This isn't Hua Hin..." You'd either be blown away, drummed flat into the ground, have your eardrums burst or be struck by lightning! Katharine, please describe what I'm talking about!

[englishangel]

I wasn't commenting on your storm Philip, just storms in general

[lonelymom]

You'd either be blown away, drummed flat into the ground, have your eardrums burst or be struck by lightning!

Mmm, might be a good time to send hubby out for a pint of milk then?

[NEILL THE NOTORIOUS]

I don't mind Storms -- and as for our pets, ---- the Pond is 1Metre deep and they all disappear, until it is over -- and then come up again to lie in their collective teeth (What teeth ?) to say that they havn't been fed for a week ! :deadhorse:

[Ajarn Philip]

---- the Pond is 1Metre deep and they all disappear, until it is over -- and then come up again to lie in their collective teeth (What teeth ?) to say that they havn't been fed for a week !

If you want to see fish with teeth, have a look at these photos of the orphanage day out...

http://www.huahinafterdark.com/forum/po ... tml#129717

[lonelymom]

Those fish are massive, Philip!

[Ajarn Philip]

The biggest one you saw was 5 kg - the biggest in the whole place is 55kg!! There's also one called 'Arry, after the blessed Mr H. Redknapp.

[lonelymom]

Has the 55kg one ever been photographed?

[Ajarn Philip]

Don't be daft, you'd need a crane to get the so-and-so out of the water. Apparently they put a calf onto a set of scales, lowered them into the water, waited until he came for his lunch, subtracted the weight of the calf and did whatever calculations you'd need to do to allow for the scales being under water...

[lonelymom]

Very technical!

[kerrensimmonds]

The Bind Moggles, Phil....
What sort of calf? Bovine? Was it deceased? OOh dear. So are these fish carnivorous? And people get close to them? Blimey...

[lonelymom]

Don't be daft, you'd need a crane to get the so-and-so out of the water. Apparently they put a calf onto a set of scales, lowered them into the water, waited until he came for his lunch, subtracted the weight of the calf and did whatever calculations you'd need to do to allow for the scales being under water...

Did they weigh him before he ate, or after? It could make all the difference in the final calcuation.