Tired!

Posted on June 15, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Boring, Cat Food, Cold, Heating, Life, Rain, Shopping, Sleep, snoozing, Tired, WetLeave a comment

What a day! Rain so heavy it must have weighed a ton! A few sunny spells. So cold I put the heating on, snuggled down and snoozed.

As I type I can hear the cars splashing through the rain outside and loud drips falling against the window round the back. At least my new plants and hanging baskets are getting well watered. I need to do some more gardening. Potting plants on, but it’s easier to shiver inside.

What else did I do? I watched a few YouTube videos and got out to get some cat food. Sheer excitement. Hence the pretty flowers, it’s less boring than today.

Sad marigolds

Posted on June 10, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Gardening, Growing, June, Life, marigolds, Plants, Rain, seasons, Spring, Summer, Weeds4 Comments

Marigolds in a bag, something seems to have broken the flowers off. I’ve got to get them planted but yesterday the rain fall was stupendous. Today the weather was better, but I am very tired. Tomorrow could be the day they get planted. Meanwhile, the forecast is for more rain and cold winds coming from the north. June seems to be below par for the time of year. But I’m determined to get my garden looking good instead of full of overgrown weeds!

British barbecue

Posted on June 4, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged barbecue, burger, drizzle, grill, hot dog, Humour, Poem, Poetry, Rain, Smoke, Summer, WeatherLeave a comment

A queue in the rain

For a British barbecue

Waterfall effect is a pain

Smoke and drizzle falling

Barometer says thunder

Must be summer

No chance to simmer

In the sun’s rays

And charcoal briquettes?

Won’t light in the deluge…

Soggy burgers and hotdogs?

Make the most of it..

Next week snow, or fog!

Green street

Posted on May 31, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged black plastic bags, Houses, housing, Litter, Plants, Rain, rooms, Rubbish, student, student lets, ThistleLeave a comment

A large spiky thistle growing outside a terraced house front door. Why? These are student lets’ and a lot of them are empty because the students have already left. I guess the landlords will come back and refurbish the houses or rooms. There was a lot of rubbish in the street, black plastic bags, litter and bits of old furniture. If they don’t clear away the plants their roots will take over and get into the foundations. I think its worse because everything has grown rampant because of all the rain we’ve been having.

Raining again

Posted on May 28, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged AI, Art, CGI, Creepy, Design, Downpour, Life, Odd, Rain, Reality, Sci fi, Sound, Time, WeatherLeave a comment

The rain came down in a torrent this evening, it was drumming on the roof so hard it drowned out the radio in the kitchen. I was just about to go out and I stood and waited for it to blow over.

I had watched a short video on my phone earlier. It was supposed to show a cloud burst over a desert, but it looked wrong, something like a waterfall but with waves and eddys and tiers a bit like a chandelier. People’s reactions were incredulous.

I then saw the caption at the bottom “generated with AI”. The rain I experienced was real, not AI. I don’t mind that people are creating images, I do it a lot myself, and it’s good watching a film where someone has used CGI to create spaceships, or add landscapes, or alter how people look. But AI seems alien, creepy, like it knows the rules but does not know how to follow them? It sometimes adds extra fingers or distorts faces.

In the end I prefer reality.

Esther Chilton Water prompt…

Posted on May 16, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Atlantic, holidays, Lake, Memories, north sea, Ocean, Rain, River, Tears, Water, WindermereLeave a comment

I just wrote this for Esther’s weekly prompt. This week is Water:

Water today means too much rain. It’s been falling all day. Sometimes it’s a river flowing in the lake district. My hubby tried to tickle trout while we were on holiday one year. He was unsuccessful. Water is lake Windermere, before it got polluted with toxic green algae. Home of Arctic Char fish that got trapped there in the end of the last ice age. Water means the Atlantic and North Sea coasts where we visited on many holidays. I need to visit them again. Water is my tears of regret and happiness over all these memories.

Rain again

Posted on May 16, 2024May 16, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Description, dripping, Grey day, Life, pouring down, Rain, rivulets, Water, Weather, Wet, window panesLeave a comment

Water from the sky all day, falling incessantly. Rivulets splashing. Grey sky, rain pouring down, puddles and rushing gutters overflowing. I haven’t been out. Sitting in a warm jumper. I haven’t even opened the curtains! I watched the water running down the window panes in the kitchen, following wriggling lines downwards, drips racing each other to the bottom. Tears from the sky. Such a dark day, concrete coloured clouds and not silver lined. Perfect for ducks! Perhaps it will be better tomorrow?

Soaked!

Posted on April 16, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged April, Cold, Freezing, Hail, Rain, Sandals, Shower, slippers, squelching, Thunder, WeatherLeave a comment

My feet were soaked, my coat got soaked and hail and rain trickled down my neck! The bottom of my trousers acted like a wick and sucked up the water. I was still wearing sandals because I hurt my toes a few weeks ago and the sandals are squelching so I’ve had to get my warm slippers on. It’s not very warm so I’ll get a hot shower.

April showers? Yesterday the next door town had a mini tornado that blew a caravan over and several trees were blown over in the east Midlands. Today we even had a thunderstorm. I only went out to meet a friend, we had a walked up the steep hill to her house and then I was stuck for a while because the hail and rain was so heavy. Water was streaming down the pavements and gutters which is why my feet got so wet.

We are lucky to have rain in this country but a lot of UK farmers have been affected by the wet winter months. Crops have been affected and are not growing like they should. The plants are basically being drowned and many flood warnings have been in force.

Better weather and a high pressure system is expected over the UK in the next few days. Meanwhile I’m going to try and get warm and dry!

Squally shower

Posted on March 27, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged gusty, Life, March winds, Myth, Rain, Reality, springtime, Squall, Time, Weather, Window2 Comments

Wow, it’s just rained heavily. A real squall with gusting winds. The gutters were overwhelmed and water poured down the window. Now the sun’s back out and the dark grey clouds have blown away. I love the sound of raindrops clattering against the glass and the gusts of wind whistling through the gaps in the window frame. It’s never been properly airtight, but I don’t mind and in the dawn light I can hear the blackbird singing on the top of next doors chimney. Music of nature playing around my garden.

It reminds me of the myth or saying about the month of March and March winds… If it is a gentle start to the month it comes in like a lamb and out like a lion, while if it’s windy at the start of the month the opposite, in like a lion out like a lamb tends to be the case.

Low pressure

Posted on February 9, 2024February 9, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Barometer, changeable, Cold, Low pressure, much rain, Rain, Warm, Weather, Wet, winter weather2 Comments

Low pressure over us, the barometer fell last night from changeable to much rain, and rain it did this morning. There is flooding in the English midlands and snow melt has added to the problem.

I tapped the barometer again this morning and the indicator didn’t move. The weather just hasn’t been good, it’s cold and wet. But the temperature has risen a bit from the freezing conditions we had a few days ago. I hope the barometer goes back up again soon.

Mallaband-Brown

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