I picked a good day to take a day’s holiday from work today. After what seems like weeks of relentless rain and high winds it was sunny and warm, which was just as well because I had decided to spend part of my day off helping with canvassing in Crawley and had been dreading going [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Weather'
LA Rain
February 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Life
I can’t say I was surprised by this story. When I went to Los Angeles it rained for a couple of days. There were roads closed, and on one journey we were on a freeway and where it dipped under a junction there was a good 40cm of water to get through.
I guess the problems [...]
More rubbish?
January 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Just seen that the forecast is for heavy snow around here tomorrow afternoon. Timed to perfection to interfere with our weekly (I wish!) rubbish collection. I honestly can’t remember when our trash was last collected – is it two weeks? Three weeks? Is it longer than three weeks or does it just feel like it?
Ideally [...]
Tags: Weather
Vive la difference
January 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Another dull, weather-related post, but I thought it might be fun to compare the response to snow(balls) in two different places.
In Crawley:
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And in Washington:
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I’m so glad we have our police…
Wrong kind of snow?
January 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Maybe the railways had a point with their now-notorious complaints about ‘the wrong kind of snow’ after all. We had a little bit of the white stuff here overnight and although there was nowhere near as much as last week it seems to have had more of an impact.
Tags: Weather
I’m black and I’m proud
January 8th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Life
I am trying to resist the temptation to write about the weather, but really nothing much else is happening here. Today I decided to spend the day at home reviewing a huge pile of HR policies instead of walking either one mile or five miles to work (depending on whether the buses are running). I [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Local Papers·Weather·WSCC
A bit of a trek
January 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Sometimes even I am astonished by my naivety. Perhaps misplaced optimism is a better alternative.
After last night’s walk I knew there would be no buses up Tollgate Hill (no problem as I don’t want them anyway) but I just sort of presumed the more level roads would be better anyway and that the main roads [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Buses·Fastway·Weather
I don’t want to complain, but…
January 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Life, Work
Everything looks so clean and white outside so I don’t want to complain about the weather, but I think I may moan a bit about the timing of it. It is only about 8 or 10 centimetres here at the moment. Hardly Arctic conditions, though it has made our street impossible again. This time our [...]
Its the way he tells them
December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Life, Work
There was a bit of an end-of-term atmosphere at work today – which is going to make going in tomorrow feel like a real anti-climax. A major contributory factor was our xmas lunch in the canteen restaurant. Queueing up to get in there we noticed a picture of the incident at Prestwick where a Ryanair [...]
Snowbound
December 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life
Our car has not moved from where it was abandoned parked on Friday – halfway down our road, pointing uphill.
Actually that is only half-true. The truth is even worse, and a little more embarrassing. I did move it on Saturday morning. I got it far enough uphill to turn around, then I went off to [...]
Tags: Broadfield·Driving·Weather
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