Carlsberg don’t do holidays, but if they did… they wouldn’t let me anywhere near them!  The rest of the family are convinced I am jinxed when it comes to weather and holidays. They have gone off with the tent in the past, spending a few days away during school holidays while I am at work, […]
Entries Tagged as 'Weather'
Every cloud…
June 26th, 2008 · Comments Off on Every cloud… · Life
How many times have I sat watching football on the BBC, hoping that an act of God would strike and shut Mark Lawrenson up? ((its a rhetorical question… but must be in triple figures by now)) Well tonight it actually happened. Storms in Vienna disrupted the transmission of pictures of the semi-final. After a while […]
Business as usual
May 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
So the last bank holiday was a fluke after all, and now we are back to the traditional miserable holiday weekend, with the trees behind the garden bending like they are in a Robert Frost poem, followed by a bit of a downpour.  To re-inforce the feeling that all is back to normal, the UK […]
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Wrong time to rain
May 9th, 2008 · Comments Off on Wrong time to rain · Life
I find hot weather quite uncomfortable so I’m quite happy for it to be overcast with the odd shower, but today is different.  Its Chrystal’s last day at school and we have to go and sit in the assembly hall for what will feel like hours while they all get their records of achievement and […]
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Its like the 70s again!
May 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
Hot weather and sunshine for all of the May Day bank holiday weekend? Thats the sort of 70s revival I can live with! I was so disoriented I even did a bit of light weeding while wondering why gardening is only 5% tending the plants you actually want and 90% waging war against the ones […]
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Green, green grass of home
May 5th, 2008 · Comments Off on Green, green grass of home · Life
It was almost inevitable really. Months of slogging around in the cold and rain, trying to force soggy leaflets through resistant letter boxes and then as soon as the elections are over its all sunny and warm. I was over in Horsham delivering some leaflets about affordable housing today and it was so much more […]
Brrrr…
April 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
We do like to talk about the weather don’t we? I try to resist the temptation, but its hard when you get a day like today. This was the view out of our back windows today. Proper snow. Not a light dusting that is there in the morning but disappears after an hour or so, […]
Splish splash
January 16th, 2008 · Comments Off on Splish splash · Life
Wasn’t it wet today? I haven’t seen such rain since the drought of summer 2006, although last year’s camping holiday on the Isle of Wight came pretty close. At lunchtime a few of us went out to the pub and the country lanes near Gatwick were awash.  A river had burst its banks and was […]
Green fingers
August 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
Its the wrong time of year (probably) and its the wrong type of weather (I imagine) but today we suddenly decided to do some gardening. We have had gift vouchers knocking around for nearly two years and finally got around to using them today, buying 7 plants and some compost. At least we were sensible […]
Holidays
July 31st, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
The reason for the total lack of activity here (apart from Richard and Danivon bashing their heads together in the comments) is that I have been away on holiday. In a fit of misplaced optimism about the weather prospects we booked a week camping on the Isle of Wight and just got back yesterday. We […]
