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

Every street seems to be a canal at the moment running swiftly and surely. I wonder if it ever stops raining here? I am almost under the impression that I have come to live in permanent April.

That's what happens living the wrong side of the Peak District!

I didn't wear wellies, it was easier to grow webbed feet!

Noooooooooo please say it aint so, tell me that it will become the dry season soon. In the south I had a water feature here the garden in the water feature.

That's why they built the Bridgewater and Manchester Ship Canals for, to drain the water away!

I thought I just spotted a bit of blue sky through a gap in the clouds! But it wasn't, as my grandmother would say, big enough to make a sailor's shirt from.

That was a carrier bag!

My mum would talk of enough blue sky to make a handkerchief with. I thought this wet Manchester weather was all a big joke. Now I find that the jokes on me

Don't cry! You'll make it worse.

I can assure you there is at least one sunny day in Manchester. Sometime.

Mine was in the middle of my Animal Phys. Exam, July 1980.

Don't know if there has been one since!

back dahn sarf.

do sailors' shirts require more blue than their handkerchiefs?

Still cold, but the rain's stopped so my Physics study group decided to make a break for the bus.

Guess it depends on the size of the sailor, Mal.

Cookie, I can assure you, here in London, even the ducks are wearing wellies.

Bless those little webbed feet. Soon I will be joining them waddle waddle quack quack, even my dog is a little ducky.

Windows are all totally fogged up from cooking dinner...

tonight as I look between casopia and the plough the north star is shinning brightly over stonehenge a good night for Duids

Theres a traffic jam of both cars and determined Christmas shoppers...and the Sally Army Band are playing carols

Manchester derby day. Best time to stay indoors City and United supporters all over the place.

The insulation has just come off the neighbour's skylight - a bit of a breeze out there....

Bit of a breeze is a bit of an understatement in Manchester it is bluddy windy.

I must be looking at the weather report for the wrong city, it says only *partly* cloudy, and only 20% chance of rain!

But today's high is 4°, that sounds more like here

And I'm about to go out in it