I seem to be one of the only people I know who actually slept through the earthquake! zombie_thing did too, which is vaguely comforting, but I can't have been asleep for more than half an hour before it happened. I may possibly have dreamt it, but I could just be imaginging it. I did dream about snow, and that my sister lived here and wanted to do her washing ( Read more... )

It's Early. And Cold. And I work up at 4:30, and at most only dozed since. And I have no breakfast except a stale tea cake, which I shall ignore. And nothing to do, because I went online when I got home last night and caught up on lj so now I have an hour till I have to be at work and nothing fun to read ( Read more... )

Anyone else totally freaked out by the storm last night? I've never seen anything like it. As a kid I always thought lightning and thunder were the coolest things ever (... okay, so I still do) but without rain? Is creepy! The whole sky flashing blue every 10-30 seconds, really hot and muggy and dry, and apparently this storm stretched all hte way ( Read more... )

So, house is all sorted. I've got the downstairs room, which is a good thing. Any other thoughts and opinions I had on the subject were rather obliterated by yesterday ( Read more... )

WTF?? It's snowing ( Read more... )

Yahoo news (living in UK):

The mercury is unlikely to rise beyond 3C (37.4F) and it will feel much colder than that because of the sharp east-north-easterly wind.

Temperatures were expected to plunge as low as minus 3C (26.6F) in many parts overnight and as low as minus 10C (14F) in the glens of Scotland.

quatorze's journal (living in finland):

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Skis! Yay ( Read more... )

Snow! Yay ( Read more... )

I am doing a very passable impression of a drowned rat. Went for walk up hill (part of new summer resolution) and got caught on the way back. I figured it wasn't teh type of rain to just stop, but I kept waiting under trees just in case. The result: the rain got heavier. If I'd walked straight home I'd only be marginally damp. Instead, I'm pretty ( Read more... )

I went out to buy: pen, comic, possibly a bday present for Gene ( Read more... )