Quiet day

Posted on June 5, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Heating, Hospital, Life, Nap, Nodding off, Parking, Raining, shivering, Tired, WetLeave a comment

After a few hectic days I was going to do more today, but after messing about trying to get a parking space at the hospital early this morning so I could get a blood test, I came home and collapsed in a heap (metaphorically not literally). I’m OK.

Just shattered. I’d got wet in heavy rain and I hadn’t taken a raincoat, so I was soaked. I wanted to warm up because I was shivering.

I’m trying to save on heating costs so I didn’t put it on. But I relented tonight and switched on my electric heater.

Basically I ended up nodding off and napping a few times. I sat in front of my television and watched a few programmes which merged into each other.

Basically that was my day off.

Guttering

Posted on February 4, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 20 years, drip, Grass, guttering, ivy leaves, Overgrown, Raining, Roof, Tiles, Time, work manLeave a comment

My guttering around the house has been dripping on me. When I finally looked up I could see grass protruding from the gutter above the front door. Every time I went out in the rain I got wet.

Luckily the neighbours recommend a workman who would clean it out. He came today to do the work, it literally took 10 minutes, including putting the ladder up to the roof, but it’s worth having it done. He bought down a bucket full of moss, leaves and grass. Hopefully it is now sorted out. He asked me how long it’s been since I’ve had the guttering cleared and I had to admit it must be over twenty years. That means the cost was a few pence for every year I have lived here!

Beach (and surroundings)

Posted on November 25, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Beach, boot, caves, Cliff, costal paths, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2130, Hills, pennines, puddles, Raining, rock pools, trig point, Wet4 Comments

Beach or mountains? Which do you prefer? Why?

Only because I’m not good at climbing. The worst walk I ever went on was a steep hill in the pennines. First the sole of one of my boots came unglued and started flapping around. We were only halfway up the hill. I solved it by tying it back on with my laces, but that made the bit round my ankle loose!

Then when we got to the top it was raining sideways and foggy. We sheltered behind the trig point at the top. This was two walls in a cross shape, so whatever direction the wind was blowing you could get out of it. When we decided to walk down we walked over the plateau at the top, only to find it was another side of the hill with a twenty foot drop and no path down!

Luckily we managed to find our way back across the top. By the time we started down the rain was making puddles on my glasses, the water was seeping through my coat, I was freezing cold and my boot sole was flapping about again….

That’s why I prefer beaches. Not lying on them, but exploring rock pools and caves. Visiting seaside cafes, and walking along coastal paths, as long as they aren’t at the top of cliffs!

Blooming

Posted on July 26, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blooming, Flowers, Gardening, Life, Mediterranean, Plants, Raining, Weather, Wet, wildfires2 Comments

Well the plants are getting well watered by the rain that has poured down here from the start of July after a hot June.

I wish I could send some of this rain south East towards the Mediterranean and its Islands. Plus Portugal and North Africa where there have been more wildfires. People have died. Meanwhile we are dripping wet.

I’m not complaining, as things go I prefer a cooler summer but I’m not sure how the climate will change in the future. We has grass fires here last year…. I would like to think if we can get our act together climate disaster can be avoided

Wet cat!

Posted on July 26, 2023 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Life, like an otter, Poem, Poetry, Raining, Soaked, sopping wet, Wet2 Comments

He’s just come in

Soaking wet

Sopping, dripping

Like an otter

His coat sparkles

With water droplets

Now a wash, licking up

A bowl of water almost

In his coat.

How long will his tongue

Take to towel himself dry?

Skyscape

Posted on July 8, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, Heat, Hot, July, pouring, Rain, Raining, Saint Swithens day, skyscape, Sunshine, WeatherLeave a comment

When the wind blows the sky changes. Heat is coming and clouds may be fleeing this weekend. Warnings of temperatures above 30`C are expected. High UV is predicted.

The British don’t really do ‘heat’, we go abroad for it, but we are more used to summers of wet weather, music festivals in mud, Wimbledon or cricket rained off. A summer can last a day as far as we are concerned. We even have Saint Swithens day. A day in July? If it rains on that day we can expect continuous rain for the next forty days and nights… And sometimes that seems to come true! One year I joked with friends that we should build an ark on high ground it rained so much….. Sunshine, nice for a day or two, but Britain appear to appreciate clouds. X

Storm Arwen

Posted on November 26, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Arwen, Cold, north east, north sea, Raining, Scotland, Storm, Weather, winteryLeave a comment

When you see a bad weather report like this you think it might effect your home. In this case its to the north of us up in Scotland and The North East of England. Still the wind is roaring past the house and rattling our wheelie bins. But that’s about it. We don’t appear to be getting flooding at the moment, but there may be on the North Sea coast.

We did have our power supply flickering a few times. But up north thousands of peoples homes have lost power. Trains are stranded. Its all relative I guess.

Autumn is going.

Posted on December 3, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Garden, Leaves, Life, Memories, Raining, Sky, Wet, WinterLeave a comment

Most of the leaves have fallen. Now we are at the start of winter there is a bit more to see. The Holly Bush is getting in the way though. The bright sunshine and blue sky have gone. Today there is persistent rain gushing down from the sky with threats of snow. As far as I’m concerned I would sleep through winter and wake up in the spring if it stays as bad as this!

Mallaband-Brown

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