Il pleut

[caddyman]

I have probably now seen it all.

Outside it is, or has just been, raining. At this actual moment, it’s more of a drizzle (or it may have stopped) but on two separate occasions this afternoon, it has hammered down, albeit briefly.

Other than an odd spit here and there and one corking thunderstorm about a month ago, I can’t really remember any rain since at least February. We seemed to move from an unusually cold and snowy winter directly into drought conditions. April showers signally failed to appear. This means, of course, that with the tear less than half gone and summer not yet fully under way, there are tracts of browning grass in parks everywhere. By August it will be a dustbowl out there unless we get more of this.

The point of this ramble is that for a large proportion of my 52 years, I should have not believed it possible to witness (predominantly) English people in an English office staring excitedly out of the window and commenting happily on the fact it’s raining.

Comments

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

Woah! It's weird having the same weather as someone else on LJ for a change. The Beloved has just gone out into it, brave little thing that she is, to buy popcorn.

[w00hoo.livejournal.com]

As a gardener now, surely you were agreeing with them...

[changeling72.livejournal.com]

We were much the same. Working at Kew, we would rather like some more of the stuff. I can appreciate it when I'm not in it.

[keresaspa.livejournal.com]

It's been raining on and off for a month here, including consistent downpours every few hours for the last week or so. That being said Belfast makes Manchester look like the Sahara in the rain stakes. Must be all those mountains we're surrounded by.