Sun was shining, I put the washing out, walked back indoors, 5 mins later it rained.
Got my bike out to ride to the station and it started raining. Dipped inside to put waterproof trousers on and the light rain shower was a absolute torrent! Very short ride to the station and I looked like a drowned rat!
Took everything off on the train then just before getting off I kitted up for the rain only to find out 20 minutes down the line it was blue skies everywhere and no sign of rain! So I had to ride in full waterproofs when I didn't need to. Wet through waterproofs at that!
It's been horrendous today. So heavy rain, the factory flooded!!
Must have been an interesting trip for the other passengers.
Sun was shining, I put the washing out, walked back indoors, 5 mins later it rained.
Got my bike out to ride to the station and it started raining. Dipped inside to put waterproof trousers on and the light rain shower was a absolute torrent! Very short ride to the station and I looked like a drowned rat!
Took everything off on the train then just before getting off I kitted up for the rain only to find out 20 minutes down the line it was blue skies everywhere and no sign of rain! So I had to ride in full waterproofs when I didn't need to. Wet through waterproofs at that!
It's been horrendous today. So heavy rain, the factory flooded!!
Must have been an interesting trip for the other passengers.
Poor choice of words. All waterproofs off. Not many there so I doubt people would notice of I had taken it all off!
Just worked out, full waterproofs on and it barely drizzled. No waterproof trousers on heavens open and I'm soaked in seconds!
OH needed his waterproofs to cycle down the road to get his flu jab ... but then (unusually for him) the sun came out so he called in at home to 'partially disrobe' before cycling up the road to work and leave his 'yellow legs' here ... he says if he gets wet cycling home it doesn't matter 'cos he'll just go straight into the shower ... this is partially curmudgeonly and partially RTBC ....
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lovely and sunny here now. Local pics of 'floods' here on Facebook are followed by comments of 'gone now'. My curmudgeon today is - we have funding from 2 separate departments of our local district council for a pilot scheme for a local community bus connecting the local villages to our town once a week, on market day. Many of these villages are so tiny there are just a handful of houses in them and there are many who, if they cannot drive, are completely cut off from the main bus services. So we are running a pilot for 3 months to see what the uptake would be, using the local community 'dial a ride' service. The funding in total amounts to just under £4,000 but comes from 2 separate departments so we will be having three photos with giant cheques taken - with the amount from one department, the amount from the other and one with the total! Anyone would think their grants were worth ten times what we actually got!
I'm not sure that I'm too happy about more laws against protesters. I totally follow what the protesters do is seen as a pain - and more than a pain at times, totally heartless. But there are laws already. We all see protests (Hong Kong springs to mind, Greenham Common, Poll Tax) as being good when we understand and agree with the reasoning behind them. And if my wife had needed to get to the hospital and protesters in some way had stopped that, I'd have been up in arms - no matter what the cause was. Double standards eh?
Loved Boris on the radio as well this morning. So good to hear that the shortages across the board that seem to be caused by a recruitment problem, was all planned to help the poor workers have better pay and conditions. My opinion of Boris is changing. I always thought he was a bit of a buffoon who couldn't plan his way out of a planning meeting. But no, I had him all wrong. Shame he didn't say what other hardships the plan foresaw though - I think I will start calling him Hari Seldon. Maybe Boris will appear as a hologram each time a Seldon crisis occurs in the future.
Love the way he suggests brexit was the only way to improve working conditions for UK workers, too. As though there were absolutely no steps they could have taken that would have made any difference whatsoever, nope. "Minimum whatsit raise, what now? No idea what you're taking about, sorry! "
EU rules lead to shorter working weeks, better health and safety, better pay - where those rules were followed and checked. They tend to get ignored by companies and even countries who didn't like them much and had lots of cheap labour looking for work almost anywhere.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Love the way he suggests brexit was the only way to improve working conditions for UK workers, too. As though there were absolutely no steps they could have taken that would have made any difference whatsoever, nope. "Minimum whatsit raise, what now? No idea what you're taking about, sorry! "
and millions of public sector workers on a pay freeze for , remind me, how long? Prices of food , petrol, heating and rents going up and up. They'll all be feeling the bounce back I'm sure.
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Must have been an interesting trip for the other passengers.
Just worked out, full waterproofs on and it barely drizzled. No waterproof trousers on heavens open and I'm soaked in seconds!
@northerJoe at this time of year waterproofs work the same way as sunglasses for controlling the weather... always tempting fate!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My curmudgeon today is - we have funding from 2 separate departments of our local district council for a pilot scheme for a local community bus connecting the local villages to our town once a week, on market day. Many of these villages are so tiny there are just a handful of houses in them and there are many who, if they cannot drive, are completely cut off from the main bus services. So we are running a pilot for 3 months to see what the uptake would be, using the local community 'dial a ride' service. The funding in total amounts to just under £4,000 but comes from 2 separate departments so we will be having three photos with giant cheques taken - with the amount from one department, the amount from the other and one with the total! Anyone would think their grants were worth ten times what we actually got!
Prices of food , petrol, heating and rents going up and up. They'll all be feeling the bounce back I'm sure.