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MERE HOURS AFTER he was sworn in as president of France Francois Hollande faced his first hiccup this evening when his plane was forced to turn back while en route to Berlin after it was struck by lightning.
Reuters reports that the French president’s plane was forced to turn back after it was struck by lightning during a flight to Berlin where the Socialist Party leader was due to meet with German chancellor Angela Merkel.
Crucial talks on all matters eurozone have now been postponed until Hollande can make it to the German capital.
Angelique Chrisafis from the Guardian reports on Twitter that Hollande has since taken off in a second plane that is once again bound for Berlin. Cue talk of lightning not striking twice.
Reuters adds that Hollande was unharmed in the incident.
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Thanks Adam – I think my subconscious was getting too excited at the thought of good weather!
spelling mistake, ” between 23-237c ” 23 is optimistic enough but 237 is just mistake
AccuWeather.com shows a completely different story, with a continuation of the cloudy, showery, occasionally sunny mix we have had for the last month.
My post was deleted. Obviously they think I am a spammer posting links! Sorry :)
Oh there it is. Obviously it’s my cookies, oops sorry :)
The sun ain’t cooperating here in Ashford. :-(
Thats right,dash our hopes
I love summer in Ireland, it’s my favourite day of the year….
And Aoife, I’ve never had hang sandwiches before….mmmmm, they sound really interesting!! give us the ingredients, go on! :)
Oh dash it, here I had fond images of hanging bread on the line to be toasted by the sun whilst a little choir of angels sing their joy at the brightness of the day! ;). Thanks for educating me the two Aoife’s, it would be a sad day when you don’t learn something new!
Forgive my pessimist outlook but since April Ive been waiting for a few consecutive days of sunshine. To no avail, I take any weather forecast with a pinch of salt as no one seems to get it right.
Tsk, tsk, predictive text .. ‘hang sangwiches’ they sound even better then hang sandwiches…I imagine a little angelic choir figures somewhere with the sangwiches!
Hey Kathy, it was a joke about what some people call ‘ham sandwiches’ ;)
A pretty well-known joke-spelling/pronunciation based on some country pronunciation of the word. (I don’t know where from or if anyone ever really says it for real.)
I need to move. I know 80*F is hot there, but we’re averaging over 100*F here in Texas.
Check temperature for Friday…20 – 14*C???
So where’s this heatwave Mr O’Donnell?
Not going to happen. 16 degeees and raining for Saturday. I don’t know why anyone takes this Canadian guy seriously. Pluse he’s a climatologist (very long term stiuff) not a meterologist..
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