Damp

[caddyman]

Well today could be fun. The Met Office have issued a severe weather alert for London and the South East of England and it seems that we should brace ourselves for persistent thunder and lightning accompanying two months’ worth of rainfall in one day. Various other parts of the country have had it, now it’s our turn.

Two months’ rainfall sounds a lot and the sky is appropriately dull and grey with mist and rain squalls blowing around the place. It is windy and cool but still uncomfortably humid. Pressure must be quite low, too. I have that behind-the-eyes-not-quite-headache feeling. Of course, recent summers in London have been hot and dry, so I assume that we are expecting two months of the seasonal average as two months’ worth of the past two or three summers’ rainfall wouldn’t inconvenience a beetle much less the city.

Part of me is looking forward to the sight of canoes on the streets of London, but moist of me wants to be at home up on the hill when it happens, keeping a – you should excuse the pun – weather eye out for the skylight above the stair well, which leaks at the best of times.

Ah. A brief flash of lightning; it may be starting.

Comments

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

but moist of me wants ...

ROFLMAO

Forbidden word!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

As a typo goes, you can't get better than that!

I think I shall leave it uncorrected.

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

I stayed indoors the whole day in Ilfracombe, only to find it had circled around me, wiping out roads and flooding towns, without a single drop falling on my position.

Dammit, if I hadn't paid attention to the forecast I could have gone to the beach.

Sorry about all the people who lost their homes, obviously.