Sheffield on a Wednesday
I’m sat on a train going to Sheffield at the moment. That was no mean feat. St Pancras resembled a greenhouse packed with sweaty and confused travellers due to long delays. This on the back of being delayed over two hours on my flight last night from Tampa into Gatwick.
Still, mustn’t grumble as I look out of the window at this fine and pleasant land. Just passing Loughborough at the moment.
A few days in Yorkshire to watch my daughter swim at the Swim England National Summer Meet.
The event has already began at the Ponds Forge, and she is back at the same venue, after swimming the week before last there at the Next Gen British Swimming Championships, where she did well in what was a great experience for her.
We are staying near Ponds Forge right by Victoria Quays. I haven’t been to the steel city other than for football for a very long time. In fact St Pancras earlier took me back to away days to the north not knowing when and from which platform the train is going from.
Good to see some things don’t change. I reckon the EMR bloke yelling at people to get back at the barrier is safe in his job from AI.
Swimming meets are early mornings and evenings, so a chance to stroll along the River Don and the Quays during the day of what used to be called the Sheffield Canal Basin. Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, does it.
The weather here has certainly mellowed, but still hot, hotter than Florida. I am already craving AC, it’s a wonderful invention, you know.
It will as the Americans say get us acclimated for our next stop where the heat has been a major problem.
On Sunday we drive to Heathrow for a holiday in Spain. We are moving around a bit, but end up in Madrid, which has seen awful wildfires in its vicinity.
I work in risk, and wildfires, whilst always being a natural phenomenon, have accelerated greatly since the mid-2000’s. Human-caused climate change has acted as a severe multiplier sadly.
Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent, heating up at twice the global average rate since the 1980s. Spain always seemed hot to us Brits, but they have had some crazy 40°C summers in recent years.
Currently Spain is experiencing one of the worst wildfire disasters in its modern history, forcing over 100,000 people to evacuate as major blazes tear through regions like Madrid, Ávila, Toledo, and Castellón.
Of course humans are also mostly to blame for ignition sources as well. So sadly depressing.
I remember being in San Francisco a few years back and the smoke was bad and the skies gruesome following really bad wildfires. Fingers crossed that the fire services start to control those fires blazing on the outskirts of Madrid, which we don’t actually arrive in for another 2 weeks.
Hi,
Born and brought up in Park Drive, Charlton next to Maryon Wilson Park, I escaped London and finished up in Sheffield 40 years ago. Lost most things from London, except an accent, several friends and CAFC. Go to all the away games within a decent radius (although Charlton TV is always tempting). My son, born and bred in Sheffield, but now living in California, is equally an avid fan and we try and get to the Valley at least once a year.
A beer in Sheffield? Tap at the station or Rutland Arms near the station good. And what’s wrong with Sheffield Canal Basin.
John Le Corney:
johnlecorney@outlook.com
I remember you! I used to live on Westcombe Park Road close to Richard Wiseman.
Bugle Horn regular?
Welcome to Sheffield. Dangerously close to me!
Royal Oak for me…..lived in Coxmount Road……200yds from ‘The Oak’ and the Valley…….There from 1965 until 1987….then to Blackfen, and in 2015 to North Yorkshire.
Started something here. I was a Woodman or Swan man – sadly now both closed. But I spent a lot of time in the Oak. Was Courage’s Directors Best, but now does an excellent pint of Harveys. Richard Wiseman, hard working Secretary of CAST, is still a good friend of mine.
Duff, Hewie, Townsend, Bailey, Hinton, Tocknell, Werge, Edwards, Leary, Mathews (Roy) and memory running out. Want to say Len Glover, but that was later.
Mike West: St Johns Church and badminton?
John Le Corney, Heeley, Sheffield
Don’t forget little Sam Lawrie and Johnnie Summers around the same era…Eddie Firmani had already left for Sampdoria by that time but would be back within a year or two (1963?)
Billy Kiernan
“The weather here has certainly mellowed, but still hot, hotter than Florida. I am already craving AC, it’s a wonderful invention, you know”
“I work in risk, and wildfires, whilst always being a natural phenomenon, have accelerated greatly since the mid-2000’s. Human-caused climate change has acted as a severe multiplier sadly”
Hi, I’ve not come here for an argument Chig, just to voice an opinion.
You are clearly a believer in Human caused climate change. I’m not.
Yes it’s been a ridiculously hot /dry Summer here. It happens occasionally. This intensity last happened 1976, Fifty years ago.
You suggest we should invest in AC to keep us cool, funny you should mention it. Because one of the last things our previous energy minister said before being given a sideways shuffle was, ‘we should ban the installation of AC, as it would add to our Co2 emissions’ Yes really!
Mad Ed Miliband the zealot with no bounds, fretted constantly about our emissions which are 0.0004% of global Co2. As if adding AC to our homes would make any difference to our miniscule emissions. Let alone the global total emissions.
He should have been fretting about the emissions caused by paying China to make our wind turbines. Or for the Co2 released by liquifying Natural gas in the Middle East, sending it over in Diesel ships, then turning it back into gas. A process the creates tons of Co2.
But no, the prat was concerned about someone installing AC.
Unfortunately Miliband’s replacement Miatta Fahnbullah (no me neither) Seems to have picked up Miliband’s baton and spouts the same tripe….
I understand due to the lack of football in this post you won’t wish to post it up. That’s fine, I just wanted to put forward my view. As the subject is something I follow a lot.
Lets ignore the man-made climate change deniers. Perhaps the earth is flat after all?
John, it’s not a case of denial. I am extremely sceptical about it. But even if I am completely wrong. I’m not wrong when I say.
No matter what the UK does to mitigate Co2. It’s irrelevent in global terms.
And smoking is good for you, a McDonald’s diet is the way to good health and Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. These PR companies are good.
As I said to Chig I didn’t come here for an argument 🙂