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Just in case you were planning going down any holes in the ground or even doing normal things like a family day out, there's a weather warning for Friday and Satruday. Heavy rain and possible flooding, particulalry in the east of the region and into Northumberland.

Pah! It's rained here everyday for the last 3 weeks.

Great!!I'm down at Newark on Saturday for the Land Rover show.http://www.lrmshow.com/That should allow me time for a side-visit to Newark Air Museum - to see their Vulcan & Lightninghttp://www.newarkairmuseum.org/Their Lightning's iin far better condition than the one in the scrap-yard at the side of the A1 at Baldersby (east loop of A1 round Newark)Returning via a trip back up the old route of The Great North Road, & over John Smeatons viaduct (a far better lookingstructure than the one named after him in Leedshttp://www.biffvernon.freeserve.co.uk/smeaton' ... htmRetford, Scrooby Top, Bawtry, etc.....Then............I'm racing a Cyclo-Cross up at Ampleforth College on the SundaySo, I could get very wet on 2 consecutive days. Typical!

Always worth knowing about - better take yer rubber ring Phill Stops my little building project though    

RichT wrote: Then............I'm racing a Cyclo-Cross up at Ampleforth College on the Sunday Well, it's absolutely 'precipitating it down' here!Do I travel all the way up around York, up the B1363, through Sutton-on-the-Forest, to Gilling East, with the hope that it's not been cancelled?, thus hopefully gaining a few points for the series (& that there'll be less riders due to the inclement weather)Or, do I think 'stuff it!' & go back to bed for an hour?Just in case anyone wonders what I'm whittering on about, this is the silly game;http://www.yorkshirecyclocross.org.uk/h ... annel_page (Round 3, I'm in there somewhere on left of screen at start)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BduK8xI5-Qg (Condor Cross, Nov 2008 - a very wet one!)