Yep. They call it 'blue ice'. Rare occurrences, but real.
Martin D
> Anyone remember what they call those 'gifts' from the sky?
> jbp
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> 2009/7/2 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
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>> eek, spare me that fate! Though I am developing a set of pieces on that
>> line, the formatting will probably mean I'll put them up as a .pdf on my
>> site.
>>
>> I have to note that at the supermercado this afternoon a local paper was
>> shouting about a block of ice falling from the sky and wrecking a parked
>> car
>> near Loughborough.
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>> (it was from a passenger jet ...)
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>> 2009/7/2 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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>>> which will lead to...?
>>>
>>> Agree with the others, Dave, you can be 'our' chronicler, week by week
>>>
>> into
>>
>>> what the years will hold....
>>>
>>> Doug
>>> On 1-Jul-09, at 1:39 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
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>>> And more than one ghost was seen in more than one pub
>>>
>>>> In this year.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Douglas Barbour
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>>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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>>> Latest books:
>>> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>>> Wednesdays'
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>>
>>> What in the world we see
>>> is what's important.
>>>
>>> Richard Caddel
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> David Bircumshaw
>> "Nothing can be done in the face
>> of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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