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 | | | Subject: ... and the drought is pouring down....
Posted Apr 25, 2012 by (Mahatma) 2legs - Resident loon and Cloud Cuckoolander -- Bliss is folding towels.
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 | | In the last couple of weeks, we've had sleet, almost* snow, hail, rain, thunder, lightening, and a distinct lack of the big yellow floating awrm thing in the sky...
Ever since the 'drough' started...
Having just been into town to pick up a few essentials (coffee beans from the small coffee shop, lunch in the small cafe,  mushrooms (half price at Tesco), cheddar (reduced), yogart (4 pence more expensive than it was on Saturday), and cigs (my next door corner shop, is, I believe effectively breaking the law, as his prices still haven't gone up following the budget   )
And. Its bluddy horrible out there, rain, which is very* close to actually being snow, and a freezing cold wind.
ON the good point, its nice to see they are still digging up East Road, (a very important road in the town as it connects one side to the other, and really quite busy, normally)... 
The initial digging the road up bit followed some problem with the gas mains... took quite a while... Then they went into a four week scheduled repair on it... about two or three months ago
Completely buggered up the traffic, brillient... and, the best bit:
if your at the tempory lights, and time it just* right, with the set of lights at the other end of the road, you can entirely stall any movement of traffic, over at least two, and sometimes three, (depending what happens at the other lights by the end of the first/second cycle), cycles of the crossings
Off to check my flood insurance is up to date, if the drought continues much longer I may have to move to higher ground. <snowballs>
Oh, I'm quite scepticle about the whole 'drought' idea, just looks more like a money making scam by the water companys to me, for at least one reason....; I've heard several 'experts' on the radio, telling us, the listener about the two really dry winters we've had, in East Anglia. So, I guess, I must have imagined all the snow, which at slightly differnt times, in each winter, actually was bad enough to prevent getting to where my Dad lives... and made walking round here, even just as far as the pub, basically impossible... Also, over the same two winters, I was out in this 'drought' of water, and found simular coverings of snow in at least three countys round here...  
I'm going to grow a new lifeform, in an old plastic tub, which used to contain poppy seeds. I need to think of a name for her/him... I'm quite tempted to call him/her 'Bob', as that would fit in with BoB, FAther of nighthoover, as the new lifeform will help in the creation of many other lifeforms..... and, also it fits in with our goldfish naming protocol, where goldfish are always called 'Bob', after my FAther's nextdoor neighbour. Got a bit confusing when we had a pond with Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, and Bob, all in it at the same time... Mind, They've moved from the pond now, to a pond at a differnt house... 
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| | | Subject: ... and the drought is pouring down....
Posted Apr 27, 2012 by (Mahatma) 2legs - Resident loon and Cloud Cuckoolander -- Bliss is folding towels.
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 | | Its been warm enough for grass to be growing, most of the time, since March, mind... I seem to recall grass grows once the temp is 2 degrees or more  
The Summer we had for the week in March was fabulus... And gave such a sense of (seemingly unfounded) optamism that we were in for a really rather decent spring, and consequent decent summer... 
By chance, and very luckily, that was the week William and I were away and we had a fabulus time walking about during the day, with the sun actually out, and actual warmth... Mind, were stil getting somewhat cold evenings obviously at that point  Although... that did give an excuse to retire early to the hotel bedroom  
Damn the breeze coming in through the kitchen window felt cold, in the early hours today, whilst I was doing supper   
I think it may actually be free of drought today... well, I can't hear any hail or rain pounding down onto my skylight at the moment... 
We're still waiting for a decent Saturday as we've a nice walk planned along by the river, but we've not had a decent enough day to do it, now, since March
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