Inside out!

Posted on July 25, 2022July 25, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged gusts, inside out, Life, Rain, Staffordshire, Trentham Gardens, Trentham Lake, Umbrella, Weather, WindLeave a comment

The wind was blowing as we walked round Trentham lake today. That was fine, the weather was cool and cloudy but dry. We walked past the reopened miniature railway which had a diesel train running on it with happy children and adults riding on it. We did think about taking a ride but decided to head towards the end of the lake to the cafe to get an ice cream. We noticed strong gusts of wind and the clouds darkening but it wasn’t bad and I had a large umbrella that I was using ad a walking stick.

We sat and had an icecream but felt the patter of rain. So we decided to walk back the way we had came. Then we fought a head on blast of wind and rain! The brolly was being buffeted, twisting in the air. Its handle and stem were bending in the strong gusts of wind. Suddenly it turned inside out! We both fought it back into a sort of shape because it was still raining, but a couple of spokes are hanging down and the cover has pulled away and is sagging. Sadly it was disposed of when we came home… Mm

Hotel view

Posted on July 20, 2022July 20, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged dinghy, Fishing, Humour, Mother, Sea, Short story, Sunset, suspense, Very short story, Weather2 Comments

Looking out from the hotel over the Channel she worried about her son. Where was he? Anxiety weighed like a heavy stone on her heart. What if she never saw him again?

The dinghy had not been seen since sunset, when it had been out on the sandbar fishing for mackerel, but no one had called the lifeboat and they were not that overdue. Still, a mother can have a sense about these things. She knew in her bones… Something was wrong.

A shadow fell across her as the sun started to set again. She turned her head to look. She heard his voice…

‘Mum?’….

‘Can you do my washing this weekend?’

I want thunder and lightning!

Posted on July 20, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, heatwave, Life, Lightning, Rain, Relief, Summer, Thunder, Water, Weather, worldwide temperatureLeave a comment

I want the skies to darken, the winds to rise, I want a swirling storm, dancing leaves. Gusts and gales and the patter of heavy raindrops! I thought we were having that earlier but realised it was water pattering down on the kitchen roof from the hose! Instead of watering the plants he was watering the roof! He thought it would cool the air. Its 15°C cooler today than yesterday! We need relief for humans and the countryside. But not just here, worldwide. The trouble is its not just one country suffering.

Thunderstorms were forecast but haven’t happened yet. I’m watching www.http://blitzortung.org to see where the storms are. They seemed to be concentrated around France and Switzerland earlier on…..

Air Con?

Posted on July 19, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 40°C, air conditioning?, Heat, Heathrow Airport, heatwave, Hot, Life, UK, Weather8 Comments

Three frozen bottles in front of our fan. It’s not air conditioning, but it’s creating a cooling breeze. It got up to 27°C today so far in our living room. Last night it was 24.7°C. I got up at 5am to open up a indow and the back door to achieve that it had been a degree higher. We have the windows shut and the curtains closed. I know this temperature is nothing compared with other places, but I don’t travel to hot places so it’s a bit of a shock to my system.

In other news it is the hottest day in UK history. It is at 40°C at Heathrow Airport.

We are complaining, but wild fires are burning in France, Spain, Portugal and Greece. If you don’t believe in Global Warming think again.

There’s an old song ‘mad dogs and English men go out in the midday sun’. It’s due to cool down tomorrow.

Pet Health Warning as UK Temperatures set to Soar

Posted on July 17, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged cat health, Cats, Heat, Information, Katzenworld, pet health, reblogged, Shared, Temperature, Weather2 Comments

The UK’s leading feline charity has issued urgent advice on keeping pets sun safe as temperatures continue to soar. Following a red warning for extreme heat from the Met Office, Cats Protection is urging people to take extra precautions to protect their pets. Sarah Elliott, Central Veterinary Officer for Cats Protection, said: “White and pale-coloured cats […]
Pet Health Warning as UK Temperatures set to Soar

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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

Wind blows

Posted on July 4, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Bird, Black cat, Cat, Drawing, Life, North, Poem, Poetry, South, Weather, weather vane, WindLeave a comment

Wind blows

and cat knows

Which way the wind is blowing.

Bird flies

And follows

The wind southwards

To find a home to brood

It’s young chicks.

Cat looks North

Bird comes South

May they miss each other

In the windy sky.

It might rain

Posted on June 30, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Brown, Clouds, Cold, Grey, Hail, Rain, Sky, Summer, Sunset, Thunderstorms, Weather, WetLeave a comment

The skies gone a dirty grey brown colour and the forecast is for heavy rain showers or even thunderstorms. The sun won’t be setting for at least another hour, but as they say round here ‘its gone dark over Bill’s mums!’ in other words it’s going to rain soon! In fact as I write this I can hear raindrops drumming against the window. It did try and hail earlier on and there were little grains of ice on the car windscreen.

Rain clouds

Posted on June 25, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clouds, cumulus, Jet stream, Lake district, Lightning, Rain, Sunshine, Thunder, Weather2 Comments

Big puffy cloud seen in Newcastle under Lyme this afternoon. We did get a heavy rain shower afterwards and apparently there was a big thunderstorm a few miles away. The UK sits just in the right place to get weather from the North, South, East and West. With that and the jet stream moving about above us means that we can get ‘a year’s weather in a day’ as the old saying goes. In some places, such as the lake district, where they get a LOT of rain, they even make a joke of it and sell postcards with cartoons about rain and wet sheep on them!

Wet cat

Posted on June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Forecast, Hail, Rain, Snow, Sun, Tuxedo cat, Weather, Wet, Wet cat, WindLeave a comment

Like a stone hung from a chain, I can tell the weather by our cat.

Wet cat, it’s raining

Cat looks white, snowing

Cat covered in white dots? Hailing

Cat hot to the touch? Sunny

Cat in a cloud? Foggy

Cat with hair on end? Windy or angry!

OK, silly post! I wrote it because the cat just came in and he’s as wet as an otter in a stream (exaggeration)! ❤️

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Weather

Inside out!

Hotel view

I want thunder and lightning!

Air Con?

Pet Health Warning as UK Temperatures set to Soar

Skyscape

Wind blows

It might rain

Rain clouds

Wet cat