1976 Drought

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Re: 1976 Drought

June 1976 changed my life. Decided to hitch-hike to see my brother in Germany and I have never been abroad before.
This was before the M25 was built and having got to New Cross around pub closing time I was stupidly still trying to find a lift to Dover.
I was attacked by two guys, one of whom picked up a nearby broken bottle and shoved it in my face. Fortunately, I quickly lifted my hand to guard my face and ended up with a severed vein and three severed finger tendons. Some parts of the bottle also caught the top of my head, my other hand and my chin.
They had pushed me into an alley and I could feel myself losing consciousness, which although a very pleasant feeling, would have resulted in my death and blood was shooting out of my hand in proectile fashion. I collected myself and staggered to the road where someone called an ambulance
I woke up in Greenwich hospital the following day with my face full of bruises, with a few minor cuts on my physog and my hand in plaster. I spent three days in hospital, walked to the nearby A2 and carried on hitching with my arm in a sling and with my face looking a mess.
A German couple in a Mercedes stopped and took me all the way to my the centre of my town where my brother lived. Peering into the closed police station a police car drew up to me - and pistol-packing policeman stopped and gave me a lift to my brother's house. I spent the whole of June getting fitter and running in the hot sun - and after meeting so many wonderful local people I decided to come home and learn their language.
By the way, despite losing a bit of my knuckle and and having the bottle-shaped scar on my hand, the nylon used to rejoin the tendons is still fully functional. Had my reactions been a split-second later my face would have got the brunt of it.
I ended up living in that town for a while and still have close connections to it.
That June 1976 for me.

[jon1959]

Re: 1976 Drought

June 1976 changed my life. Decided to hitch-hike to see my brother in Germany and I have never been abroad before.
This was before the M25 was built and having got to New Cross around pub closing time I was stupidly still trying to find a lift to Dover.
I was attacked by two guys, one of whom picked up a nearby broken bottle and shoved it in my face. Fortunately, I quickly lifted my hand to guard my face and ended up with a severed vein and three severed finger tendons. Some parts of the bottle also caught the top of my head, my other hand and my chin.
They had pushed me into an alley and I could feel myself losing consciousness, which although a very pleasant feeling, would have resulted in my death and blood was shooting out of my hand in proectile fashion. I collected myself and staggered to the road where someone called an ambulance
I woke up in Greenwich hospital the following day with my face full of bruises, with a few minor cuts on my physog and my hand in plaster. I spent three days in hospital, walked to the nearby A2 and carried on hitching with my arm in a sling and with my face looking a mess.
A German couple in a Mercedes stopped and took me all the way to my the centre of my town where my brother lived. Peering into the closed police station a police car drew up to me - and pistol-packing policeman stopped and gave me a lift to my brother's house. I spent the whole of June getting fitter and running in the hot sun - and after meeting so many wonderful local people I decided to come home and learn their language.
By the way, despite losing a bit of my knuckle and and having the bottle-shaped scar on my hand, the nylon used to rejoin the tendons is still fully functional. Had my reactions been a split-second later my face would have got the brunt of it.
I ended up living in that town for a while and still have close connections to it.
That June 1976 for me.

That is a proper story!

[TWGL1]

Re: 1976 Drought

June 1976 changed my life. Decided to hitch-hike to see my brother in Germany and I have never been abroad before.
This was before the M25 was built and having got to New Cross around pub closing time I was stupidly still trying to find a lift to Dover.
I was attacked by two guys, one of whom picked up a nearby broken bottle and shoved it in my face. Fortunately, I quickly lifted my hand to guard my face and ended up with a severed vein and three severed finger tendons. Some parts of the bottle also caught the top of my head, my other hand and my chin.
They had pushed me into an alley and I could feel myself losing consciousness, which although a very pleasant feeling, would have resulted in my death and blood was shooting out of my hand in proectile fashion. I collected myself and staggered to the road where someone called an ambulance
I woke up in Greenwich hospital the following day with my face full of bruises, with a few minor cuts on my physog and my hand in plaster. I spent three days in hospital, walked to the nearby A2 and carried on hitching with my arm in a sling and with my face looking a mess.
A German couple in a Mercedes stopped and took me all the way to my the centre of my town where my brother lived. Peering into the closed police station a police car drew up to me - and pistol-packing policeman stopped and gave me a lift to my brother's house. I spent the whole of June getting fitter and running in the hot sun - and after meeting so many wonderful local people I decided to come home and learn their language.
By the way, despite losing a bit of my knuckle and and having the bottle-shaped scar on my hand, the nylon used to rejoin the tendons is still fully functional. Had my reactions been a split-second later my face would have got the brunt of it.
I ended up living in that town for a while and still have close connections to it.
That June 1976 for me.

Great story

[North Cardiff Blue]

Re: 1976 Drought

June 1976 changed my life. Decided to hitch-hike to see my brother in Germany and I have never been abroad before.
This was before the M25 was built and having got to New Cross around pub closing time I was stupidly still trying to find a lift to Dover.
I was attacked by two guys, one of whom picked up a nearby broken bottle and shoved it in my face. Fortunately, I quickly lifted my hand to guard my face and ended up with a severed vein and three severed finger tendons. Some parts of the bottle also caught the top of my head, my other hand and my chin.
They had pushed me into an alley and I could feel myself losing consciousness, which although a very pleasant feeling, would have resulted in my death and blood was shooting out of my hand in proectile fashion. I collected myself and staggered to the road where someone called an ambulance
I woke up in Greenwich hospital the following day with my face full of bruises, with a few minor cuts on my physog and my hand in plaster. I spent three days in hospital, walked to the nearby A2 and carried on hitching with my arm in a sling and with my face looking a mess.
A German couple in a Mercedes stopped and took me all the way to my the centre of my town where my brother lived. Peering into the closed police station a police car drew up to me - and pistol-packing policeman stopped and gave me a lift to my brother's house. I spent the whole of June getting fitter and running in the hot sun - and after meeting so many wonderful local people I decided to come home and learn their language.
By the way, despite losing a bit of my knuckle and and having the bottle-shaped scar on my hand, the nylon used to rejoin the tendons is still fully functional. Had my reactions been a split-second later my face would have got the brunt of it.
I ended up living in that town for a while and still have close connections to it.
That June 1976 for me.

Wow well done on the quick reactions, good job it didn't happen now and in Cardiff, ambulances in Wales take 24 hours to arrive and then they put you in a queue outside the hospital, you'd have died for sure!

[Whisperer]

Re: 1976 Drought

Deffo 1976. I was on a contract from mid February 1975 in Whitby which ended on 1st of June 1976 and I was motoring home to Cardiff, never forget it!

😂 okay fair enough - lucky we didn’t have a green agenda back then.😂

[Rjk]

Re: 1976 Drought

�� okay fair enough - lucky we didn’t have a green agenda back then.��

if we'd had a proper green agenda then we might not be facing such a potential disaster today

[Swiss Peter]

Re: 1976 Drought

June 1976 changed my life. Decided to hitch-hike to see my brother in Germany and I have never been abroad before.
This was before the M25 was built and having got to New Cross around pub closing time I was stupidly still trying to find a lift to Dover.
I was attacked by two guys, one of whom picked up a nearby broken bottle and shoved it in my face. Fortunately, I quickly lifted my hand to guard my face and ended up with a severed vein and three severed finger tendons. Some parts of the bottle also caught the top of my head, my other hand and my chin.
They had pushed me into an alley and I could feel myself losing consciousness, which although a very pleasant feeling, would have resulted in my death and blood was shooting out of my hand in proectile fashion. I collected myself and staggered to the road where someone called an ambulance
I woke up in Greenwich hospital the following day with my face full of bruises, with a few minor cuts on my physog and my hand in plaster. I spent three days in hospital, walked to the nearby A2 and carried on hitching with my arm in a sling and with my face looking a mess.
A German couple in a Mercedes stopped and took me all the way to my the centre of my town where my brother lived. Peering into the closed police station a police car drew up to me - and pistol-packing policeman stopped and gave me a lift to my brother's house. I spent the whole of June getting fitter and running in the hot sun - and after meeting so many wonderful local people I decided to come home and learn their language.
By the way, despite losing a bit of my knuckle and and having the bottle-shaped scar on my hand, the nylon used to rejoin the tendons is still fully functional. Had my reactions been a split-second later my face would have got the brunt of it.
I ended up living in that town for a while and still have close connections to it.
That June 1976 for me.

That's a hell of a story. New Cross is horrible to this day.

1976 for me was nothing so dramatic, thankfully! Revising for my 'O' levels on the beach and listening to Toots and the Maytals.

[Whisperer]

Re: 1976 Drought

if we'd had a proper green agenda then we might not be facing such a potential disaster today

I doubt it RJK….temps been rising for a couple of hundred years, there was a time when the rivers would freeze over.

[Rjk]

Re: 1976 Drought

I doubt it RJK….temps been rising for a couple of hundred years, there was a time when the rivers would freeze over.

atmospheric carbon was around 330 ppm in 1976, today it's about 420 ppm I think. that is a significant change.

[Wales-Bales]

Re: 1976 Drought

June 1976 changed my life. Decided to hitch-hike to see my brother in Germany and I have never been abroad before.
This was before the M25 was built and having got to New Cross around pub closing time I was stupidly still trying to find a lift to Dover.
I was attacked by two guys, one of whom picked up a nearby broken bottle and shoved it in my face. Fortunately, I quickly lifted my hand to guard my face and ended up with a severed vein and three severed finger tendons. Some parts of the bottle also caught the top of my head, my other hand and my chin.
They had pushed me into an alley and I could feel myself losing consciousness, which although a very pleasant feeling, would have resulted in my death and blood was shooting out of my hand in proectile fashion. I collected myself and staggered to the road where someone called an ambulance
I woke up in Greenwich hospital the following day with my face full of bruises, with a few minor cuts on my physog and my hand in plaster. I spent three days in hospital, walked to the nearby A2 and carried on hitching with my arm in a sling and with my face looking a mess.
A German couple in a Mercedes stopped and took me all the way to my the centre of my town where my brother lived. Peering into the closed police station a police car drew up to me - and pistol-packing policeman stopped and gave me a lift to my brother's house. I spent the whole of June getting fitter and running in the hot sun - and after meeting so many wonderful local people I decided to come home and learn their language.
By the way, despite losing a bit of my knuckle and and having the bottle-shaped scar on my hand, the nylon used to rejoin the tendons is still fully functional. Had my reactions been a split-second later my face would have got the brunt of it.
I ended up living in that town for a while and still have close connections to it.
That June 1976 for me.

tl;dr do you have a Twitter version?

[A Quiet Monkfish]

Re: 1976 Drought

1976.

Driving around in a Mk 3 Cortina, 4 windows down, ashtray overflowing with cigarette butts, not a bottle of water in sight. Weekends down the Knap [if couldn't be bothered to drive any further], lying in the sun with my factor 4 - factor 6 was for wimps.

[Wales-Bales]

Re: 1976 Drought

1976.

Driving around in a Mk 3 Cortina, 4 windows down, ashtray overflowing with cigarette butts, not a bottle of water in sight. Weekends down the Knap [if couldn't be bothered to drive any further], lying in the sun with my factor 4 - factor 6 was for wimps.

Living on the edge!

[Whisperer]

Re: 1976 Drought

atmospheric carbon was around 330 ppm in 1976, today it's about 420 ppm I think. that is a significant change.

So if the UK would have been carbon neutral in 1976 you saying it wouldn’t be this hot in 2022?

[Rjk]

Re: 1976 Drought

So if the UK would have been carbon neutral in 1976 you saying it wouldn’t be this hot in 2022?

if the world had been carbon neutral in 1976 then presumably yes

[Whisperer]

Re: 1976 Drought

if the world had been carbon neutral in 1976 then presumably yes

Yeah that’s what I think as well, I also think that by 2076 the world still won’t reach that target.