Make the most of it GD 'cos yours is due tomorrow if the men from the Met are to be believed. I know what you mean about passengers although I have to say I can't think of anything worse than being cooped up on a ship for days on end.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Herb, I love any weather that shakes things up. I think we can lapse into the idea that the earth revolves around humans and they have an illusion of control. A deluge of snow or rain or drought or storms brings a sense of perspective - like looking up into a night stars blazing with stars. The papers can howl all they like about weather 'travel chaos' and spit teeth and fume and it doesn't make a jot of difference. Bring on the wild, I say!
Much of the world lives with the reality of tornadoes, -40oC winters, earthquakes, 50oC summers, years of drought. We in the UK live generally in a very comfortable little Goldlilocks zone that needs a bit of a wake up now and again. Maybe I'm just fed up with the endless hyperbolic, shouting newspaper headlines.
I think I understand, especially about people who think they are in control of stuff they know not the wot of and I have always appreciated the climate in the UK. Different every day and the occasional extreme event, my brother lived in California for many years which I thought was bonkers. Who in their right mind works on a fault line? But the weather reports were so boring, day after day the same thing, he has retired back to the UK now and six months on he's still moaning even though the ground doesn't shake.
My solution to the media is to largely ignore it, the view out of my window or a good book both more interesting!
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
How right you both are - the weather in Britain can never be called boring or monotonous, every day/hour is different and we are extremely lucky not to live on a fault line either. Would I like to be cooped up in a ship for days on end with endless food and entertainment - no thank you, that isn't my idea of a holiday either. We were campers and self caterers when I was well enough to travel - strange that both our daughters have cruised recently (where did we go wrong).
"My solution to the media is to largely ignore it".
Amen. I have come off Facebook and feel I have my life back. My father is from Jamaica, which is hit (or narrowly missed) by hurricanes most years. I lived on a fault line for several years and in the tropics for several more. UK is incredibly lucky in its weather and its geology - the continuously changing seasons. A bit of a "velvet cushion" perhaps.
OK Fire but honestly Ladies tennis is just as interesting as extreme snowboarding, but in a different way we are fortunate most of the time with our weather but "velvet cushion" I think not. As for Facebook, good for you. I have no mobile phone (nor intend to ever own one) and the only social media I engage in is this forum, I prefer real people.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
GD, maybe your daughters will come back to camping. It's my idea of heaven - in the right place, at the right time. In some miserable site, in the pouring rain - not so much.
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My solution to the media is to largely ignore it, the view out of my window or a good book both more interesting!
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
... this little world,
Today very cold with a biting wind
Wonder what tomorrow will bring ?