It's been raining almost solidly for over a week now, with no more than 24 hours' break at a time. When it started, the wheelbarrow in the back garden was empty - this morning, it started overflowing, we've had that much rain. And the ground's full, so things are flooding - fields, paths and roads. This is a picture of the main street in the next ( Read more... )

Must be spring. I'm sitting here with my window open, listening to the birds sing, and I'm not wearing the entirity of the contents of my wardrobe, my heater isn't on full blast (and therefore isn't on at all), and I've not got icicles forming on the end of my nose. Makes a somewhat shocking change ( Read more... )

Snow snow snow snow snow!!! I know it's not nice for the people that want to drive places (fools, why would you drive away from snow on the beach?!), but it's so beautiful. I normally hate my huge windows in winter, because they're either letting all the heat out or burning my eyes with the sunshine, but today I have a panoramic view of the ( Read more... )

Interesting fact of the day: according to whatever sources David uses for his news programme on Durham student radio (which pretty much consist of the BBC website, I think), in order to say that something is scientifically "likely", the probability of it happening must be greater than 66%. Quite how they came up with 66% is a matter for eternal ( Read more... )

It's been incredibly windy for a while here, but today is just ridiculous. It took two of us to push the Arts Centre door open against the force of the wind, car alarms are going off all over the place, and apparently the waves against the seafront have been so strong that some of it's starting to collapse into the sea. So in honour of the extreme ( Read more... )

1. It's been freezing cold today - condensing breath, numb ears, glove-wearing cold... and yet there was a woman walking down the hill in shorts and flip-flops. I don't understand how she wasn't blue ( Read more... )

Right, an update, since I'm going to be working most of the next few weeks and might well not get round to it again for a while! I've been doing... well, not a lot really. Trying to fend off creepy men that attempt to make awkward conversation while I do photocopying for them - especially the one guy who insisted he did the photocopying himself, ( Read more... )

Gah, it may be a bearable temperature today, but all the sunshine's gone away and it's all misty and blah here, and Aber looks so pretty ( Read more... )

If it weren't so bloody hot, today would probably be one of those quietly good days - not a big-bubble-writing, psychedelic "wow, what a fantastically fantastic day" kind of day, but a calm, pretty, sense-of-quiet-contentment kind of day. But it's too hot. Not just averagely too hot either. I'm aware I'm a winter person, and have a somewhat ( Read more... )