h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

There was a beautiful red sky this morning, and the day was cold and clear as the sun came up. Absolutely gorgeous! But it's going to be miserable later on, according to the weather people, and the shepherds are pretty insistent about it too.

I love starting work at 8am, as it's so early there are very few people about (most people in Ireland start at 9), and I can even get a seat on the tram. When it's not raining it is an added bonus.

If I can get home dry I don't mind, as we've choir tonight and that's always a treat - we're working on one of Bach's cantatas - #5 from the Christmas Oratorio. We're going to sing it at our Christmas Carols concert. It opens with a lively number 'Ehre sei dir, Gott' which takes a lot of learning.

It seems we are in the lull of the storm, we also have a nice day predicted, good job as Andrew's at Grimsby Docks with his class, in a boat on the water! I remember last year, he got dunked and came home with a bag of wet, smelly clothes

Tomorrow is going to be as bad as yesterday, apparently. I think we're getting the weather KWDave should be getting in Key West

Enjoy your singing

It's been lovely here for the last few days.

I think you must have sent us all your rain then ... It just seems to have been wet here, and really starting to notice that its cooling down
Having said which it was wet and cold when I got up at 8 this morning, but unless I'm much mistaken there is a bit* of sun just creeping into the kitchen

Puts me in mind of of a classic of Western art, title, "Cowboy Take Warning" which depicts a cowboy in a desert setting leading his horse to higher ground under a blood red sky. (If I'm noy mistaken, the original is in the Smithsonian.) I never believed the sky could actually be that color until I actually saw it one morning, the red sky in the morning followed by a hurricane force storm in the evening that had water running a foot deep over the lot where my home is located over most of the following night.No serious damage, though we lost a couple of the foundation jacks the house stands on, easily replaced.

The sky dawned the following morning with rays of hope, a magnificent double rainbow, lime green and lavender colored cumulous clouds,

Here's a nice photo of the sunrise in Dublin this morning. Very spectacular indeed.

http://home.thejournal.ie/e29-3-billion-and-maybe-more-to-vanish-into-anglo-black-hole-2010-09/?h=a4b

The news story accompanying it is spectacular too, in a "how the hell did it get so bad" sort of way.

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Heck, that sounded pretty serious to me ITIWBS

'a haircut of 67 per cent' -- that's the kind I usually get. I save up for them.

ah you know what they say:

Red sky at night - Shepherd's delight
Red sky in the morning - Shepherd's warning
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minced meat and mashed potato - shepherd's pie


starting at 8am is normal here, you'd never get a seat on the tram at that time. At 9am it would be a different story (but then you'd never need it anyway because you'd have been fired for your lateness)
[started at 8am this morning it's 8pm now and no end in sight )

On the days when I start at 8, I go home at 4. On the days when I have to work until 6, I don't have to go in until 10.

But you probably go to bed before 12:30, Sho.

Main structure of the house is a 12' x 60' mobile, master bedroom, bath, kitchen, living room, studio bedroom with its own bath, taken together with an equal area of screened deck space in back, part of which has been partitioned off to create a storage and utility room.

The foundation of the mobile is constructed of 8" steel girders taken together with trucks. The foundation jacks are pyrimidal steel structures supporting a 1" steel bolt topped by a bracket the girders rest on, set ~ every ten feet along the length of the girders and on the margins of the frame.

Since the house is located on a sandy flood plain, its deliberately set to allow water to run off underneath. Up to a foot is harmless, 16" would do significant damage to the understructure, 18" or more, serious damage to the floors. The foundation jacks are inexpensive and easily replaced, requiring no more than a little lug wrench work in the crawl space under the house. It only took a day following the flood, including shopping for new foundation jacks, to put it right.

...also, afterward we installed flood control berms and gates in front of the place to divert any future flood off to a side lot.

So our promised storm never came. There was some rain during the night when I was asleep, but it has finished now and the day is due to brighten up and be really nice.

It's blown over here. We have gales and driving rain...

Re: post #10, I had always heard the notion of

Red sky at night, sailors delight
Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning

In any case, that was a lovely photo indicated above.

it depends if you live in the country or by the coast though, Nick.

Gnomon - I usually go to bed around 11:30pm and then read. But I do have to be up before 6 to make sure the Gruesome Twosome are up, fed and on the school bus.


And if I start at 8am I'l "allowed" to finish at 5pm . Still we all have to work for a living!

In this country, there are a lot of places that aren't near a coast. And yet it is an expression heard everywhere. Maybe because most of us came here in relatively recent times by boats ...

Oh, and my worky day is 7:30 to 16:00 ... A half hour for lunch

re:- post 10
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/red-sky-at-night.html