I know I have, but worrying about things I can't control helps me stop thinking about the fact that we're Completely Surrounded By Water...oh, and the fact it's meant to PISS it down on Thursday, Friday and Saturday again.
Here we are dry as dry - in fact the back hills have been burning steadily for a couple of weeks now, a pall of smoke of one degree or another pretty much perpetually lurking over the city, little drifts of ash everywhere, while there you are, gurgling your way to work and with your fingers getting all pruny. Oh dear.
It seems to me Ma Nature could have done rather a better balancing act than this. What a shame we can't somehow negotiate a trade!
I'm awfully sorry about your dad's kitty, but I'm glad the other one is okey-dokey!
Webbed feet would have been a really nifty evolutionary development around about Friday last...Darwin wouldn't have been bothered I'm sure.
My brother is also somewhat jealous of the water level. Then again, I don't have people trying to kill me on a daily basis (apart from in the usual, happy-go-lucky manner of motorists everywhere) so for every cloud...
Yes indeed, good and bad news about the respective kits.
My fingernails are stubbier than usual from gnawing on them, and I've bookmarked the BBC online news updates which is tracking the flooding changes. Tried to text you last night, but of course the damn phone won't behave. Just happy you're safe.
Well, we didn't lose power, thanks to the frekkin' INCREDIBLE efforts of the rescue services, but we came within two inches of it when the river peaked at 4am this morning. 2 more inches and half a million people would have been without power, on top of the 350,000 with no clean water. Does not bear thinking about.
And you could call me on the land phone...or we could Skype on Friday and you could listen to me whine while you book your tickets and then you could listen to me being wildly cheered up by this...*nagnagnagnag*
No electrical power is bad, but no clean water? That really is Biblical! My poor Popp! Perhaps the Mary P brolly could be persuaded to take you and Hubster to a better place -- San Francisco, for instance? I can guarantee you an exceptionally warm welcome!
And just a brief note about the animals in pairs: it's supposed to be one from each gender, so let's have none of your animal-slashing on the ark!
Oh, Hubster and I would be there in a twinkling if the bloody brolly wasn't strangely deficient in the transportation department! Do you suppose we could get a replacement one with flight capacity?
And look: you have your Ark, I have mine! And dammit, if I want slashy millipedes, I'm going to have slashy millipedes! It's Geoffery and Keith the hippos I'm getting a little bothered about...
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If you and your ark come by the Thames, give us a wave in passing, eh?
And all the very best for the next few days.
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And thank you for the good wishes. They mean a great deal. It's incredibly surreal at the moment.
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WAAAAAAHHHHH.
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Thanks for the huggles. I need all I can get :(
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Here we are dry as dry - in fact the back hills have been burning steadily for a couple of weeks now, a pall of smoke of one degree or another pretty much perpetually lurking over the city, little drifts of ash everywhere, while there you are, gurgling your way to work and with your fingers getting all pruny. Oh dear.
It seems to me Ma Nature could have done rather a better balancing act than this. What a shame we can't somehow negotiate a trade!
I'm awfully sorry about your dad's kitty, but I'm glad the other one is okey-dokey!
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My brother is also somewhat jealous of the water level. Then again, I don't have people trying to kill me on a daily basis (apart from in the usual, happy-go-lucky manner of motorists everywhere) so for every cloud...
Yes indeed, good and bad news about the respective kits.
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And you could call me on the land phone...or we could Skype on Friday and you could listen to me whine while you book your tickets and then you could listen to me being wildly cheered up by this...*nagnagnagnag*
I so need a bath :(
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Are there any estimates when you'll have fresh running water? You'll probably have to run your lines for a while to clear them.
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*takes poofy sponge and clutches it to chest, rocking gently backwards and forwards*
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And just a brief note about the animals in pairs: it's supposed to be one from each gender, so let's have none of your animal-slashing on the ark!
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And look: you have your Ark, I have mine! And dammit, if I want slashy millipedes, I'm going to have slashy millipedes! It's Geoffery and Keith the hippos I'm getting a little bothered about...
I love you x
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