[CdM] Yay. Functioning normally again. Thanks for the thought.

[Chalky] Yay! I was getting seriously concerned about you. I figured you had to be very ill to be staying away from here. :-)

...whereas others would express the view one would have to be rather sick to hang around here in the first place...

(Tuj) After looking at uk.sci.weather I come here for intelligence, sanity and humour. Although mostly amateurs they tend to talk about "severe rainfall events" and put their back-garden weather observations into one of the various meterological codes. Thus we see "SHRAGS", which means a shower of rain and hail. It's going to get a lot colder over the weekend so you'd better watch out for them shrags.

They sound more like giant hairy beasties that crawl through the countryside at night and pretend to be overgrown boulders by day.