End of the rainbow

Posted on July 3, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Clouds, dark sky, Life, Memory, Rain, Rainbow, Sketching, Sunlight, Time, Water, Weather4 Comments

I just read a post on Facebook about a rainbow and it bought back memories from the 1980s.

I was outside on a sunny day when dark clouds piled up as a shower passed by. I noticed a rainbow forming and unbelievably the end came down just up the street from where I was, about fifty yards away. I walked forward and it moved away. I tried jogging, but it kept the same distance away, then gradually faded as the sunlight was blocked by clouds behind me. I really think this is a real memory, not imagined…

Threatening rain

Posted on June 26, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Air pressure, Barometer, celcius, Hot, House, humidity, Ice cream, Life, Rain, WarmLeave a comment

Cooled down and gone overcast. The temperature is now 23.2°C, the screen is showing rain and a barometer reading of 1006 millibars. I think it is hotter outside.

My friend is experiencing 26°C where he lives which is about 100 miles north east of here. I think the worst thing is the humidity. I feel like I’m sitting in a sauna. Hopefully it will cool down and feel more comfortable as the evening goes on. I’m very tempted to eat another ice cream, but I’ve already had one today!

My poor bench!

Posted on June 25, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bench, Garden, hole, Life, Moss, Photo, Plants, potting bench, Rain, rotten, Time, weatheredLeave a comment

The sitting bench became a potting bench. Now it’s become a rotting bench! Moss covered and with holes. It was never varnished and the rain over a few years just got to it. One day I will try and replace it with something more solid. Sad demise of an old friend. Hubby used to sit and read the paper on it.

Hanging baskets need water

Posted on June 23, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Hanging baskets, Heat, Poem, Poetry, Rain, sunnier, switched over, Weather, WiltingLeave a comment

The weather is hot

Plants wilt in summer sun

Someone turned a switch

Never ending rain… Ended

Next year I shall buy

Hanging baskets earlier

They seem to have changed

The weather to sunnier!

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.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Rain