Things you don’t get in the UK

[Wansworth]

Earthquakes - UK does have them fairly frequently, most too faint to notice without instruments (see link following), but occasionally significant damage occurs e.g. 1580 & 1884. Earthquakes around the British Isles in the last 60 days

Dengue - Currently returning travellers' infections only (known!), but increasingly locally acquired cases being found in Europe (incl. France), so don't bank on it!

Malaria - believed to have once been endemic, last locally acquired outbreak 1917-1923

Sandstorms - See Antarctic Pilot above. Plus it's a matter of scale - try keeping your eyes open when walking across anywhere sandy in a high wind, and remember the sky turning orange not going ago with dust from the Sahara?

Value for money - Is not the YBW forum value for money?

It's a jungle out there!

Quick, hide! (We'll let you know when it's safe to come out again.)

Monk

 

[Black Sheep]

Mrs M’s friend has finally been persuaded to come out to visit later this year and she has a complete bat phobia. We’re keeping quiet and I’m fairly confident that she doesn’t read these pages.

How complete is her phobia?
I'm a little uncertain of the ethics of inviting a phobic person to an environment that is rich in the objects of their phobia, and deliberately keeping that information from them.

 

[john_morris_uk]

How complete is her phobia?
I'm a little uncertain of the ethics of inviting a phobic person to an environment that is rich in the objects of their phobia, and deliberately keeping that information from them.

She’s not dull (she’s a university lecturer in Law and an international judge in arbitration competitions for professionals in the legal world) and she’s well aware that there are bats in the environment. I’m just not going to advertise to her that we left the hatch open at night and several came into the boat.

 

[38mess]

Well the title was … things you don’t get in the uk. So my response is
Earthquakes
Dengue
Malaria
Sandstorms
Value for money

We had an earthquake in SWales last week. It was powerful enough move our bed and knock a vase off the cabinet.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

We had an earthquake in SWales last week. It was powerful enough move our bed and knock a vase off the cabinet.

Earthquakes strong enough for people to feel happen about once a year in the UK; some go unnoticed because they are in remote areas. There have been a few strong enough to cause damage and casualties, but the last such was a couple of hundred years ago. The BGS has excellent resources on this.

 

[john_morris_uk]

We had an earthquake in SWales last week. It was powerful enough move our bed and knock a vase off the cabinet.

A whole new angle to “Did the earth move for you, darling?”

 

[38mess]

A whole new angle to “Did the earth move for you, darling?”

Earthquake is the only way these days

 

[Fr J Hackett]

We had an earthquake in SWales last week. It was powerful enough move our bed and knock a vase off the cabinet.

Large swathes of Swansea were devastated damage was estimated at £5.40

 

[Stingo]

Surely a vase costs less than £5.40 at Poundland?

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Earthquakes strong enough for people to feel happen about once a year in the UK; some go unnoticed because they are in remote areas. There have been a few strong enough to cause damage and casualties, but the last such was a couple of hundred years ago. The BGS has excellent resources on this.

List of earthquakes in the British Isles - Wikipedia

 

[LittleSister]

We had an earthquake in SWales last week. It was powerful enough move our bed and knock a vase off the cabinet.

Probably just the aftershocks from last seasons 6 Nations Rugby.

 

[mjcoon]

Probably just the aftershocks from last seasons 6 Nations Rugby.

Or the other thought engendered by mention of the bed! ;-) (Qv post #46)

 

[Wansworth]

Here in Galicia about 15years ago there were many small earthquakes causing old houses to partially collapse at the same time there were apparently UFO activity which various radio commentators linked together

 

[geem]

in Saudi, a scorpion stood outside at the door to our compound dining room, tail up....

We saw a tarantula whilst on a walk recently.
I got bitten by a brown recluse spider in Grenada. Put me in hospital for a month in Martinique. Got to love bugs

 

[Wansworth]

We saw a tarantula whilst on a walk recently.
I got bitten by a brown recluse spider in Grenada. Put me in hospital for a month in Martinique. Got to love bugs

Bognor is best

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Bognor is best

The last words of George IV (the former Prince Regent) are reputed to have been "Bugger Bognor"!

 

[Wansworth]

The last words of George IV (the former Prince Regent) are reputed to have been "Bugger Bognor"!

 

[capnsensible]

Howler monkeys. Hearing them is easy. Spotting them in the jungle around the Panama Canal isn't.

 

[justanothersailboat]

Pedantically, I think it's supposed to have been George V in the 1930s rather than George IV in the 1830s. Bognor was probably fairly pleasant in 1830. Alas! George V may well have said it but certainly not as his last words.

Personally, I'm just glad Bognor provides no viable stopping point or shelter so I cannot be driven to having to moor there.

 

[Wansworth]

Pedantically, I think it's supposed to have been George V in the 1930s rather than George IV in the 1830s. Bognor was probably fairly pleasant in 1830. Alas! George V may well have said it but certainly not as his last words.

Personally, I'm just glad Bognor provides no viable stopping point or shelter so I cannot be driven to having to moor there.

Back in the late sixties there was talk of a marina on Bognor rocks which extend quite away offshore