miserable pissy rain

Wailing against a rainy backdrop both strengthens and weakens my goth credentials but I have to say I prefer the cool dampness of a mausoleum to the sensation of drowning on terra firma.

I've never been to Bruges but during my visit to Brussels I fully understood why the Walloons and Normans have a special word for heavy rain: 'la drache' (pronounced 'drash').

rain is good not bad, also it is sunny now, london pavements are some slippy shit whatever they're made of (apparently* it's the piss)

*i read this on the internet

It was sunny just now for five minutes. Fuck this shit.

so far this is p normal june, it always mainly rains, SMDH everyone skreeking every summer that this is the only bad summer ever

ungood weather for my cat to go missing in

Anyone who knows their Wimbledon forthnight knows this is fairly normal fare.

I think the light has been a touch worse and it has been a touch colder than usual.

xp = oh no! :-(

:(

2xp

Err, 1xp (that was for ogmor, obviously).

so far this is p normal june, it always mainly rains, SMDH everyone skreeking every summer that this is the only bad summer ever

― mark s, Friday, 14 June 2019 11:14 (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah. i've definitely spoken of the new june monsoon season before somewhere

hopefully ogmor's cat will rock up and bring the sun along too

The last two Junes have been incredible weather-wise so they've lulled us into a false sense of security. It's usually pissing it down.

where "incredible" means hot and horrible, keep that nasty stuff out of my lovely month

fascism knifecrime island but at least it rains a lot

I long for 30°+.

here it was written: Is this the worst (britishes) summer ever?

the last two junes have bucked the trend but it was a trend

It’s always humid as fuck here when it’s hot though and it’s disgusting

hot is bad, when is the gulf stream conveyor turning off, fuck brexit i want hard glaciation

be nice with huge anoxic stinking pond next to us!

mad for it

I'm probably getting mixed up with what happened in the permian "best summer ever" period there, but shutdown of thermohaline circulation probably would cause areas of anoxic death in the atlantic, but maybe not that bad.

at least wins would get a good long break from these pesky harvests as well!

back to the egg:

https://assets.sutori.com/user-uploads/image/a848c5dc-4d1a-48d3-b816-26e8af82efad/a1acbed0e130f8853f8a3905891ceed8.jpeg

Hovering between -15 and -30 for months on end teaches you to embrace the jungle. 30+ becomes desirable even when it's humid out.

after spending the morning imagining my cat bedraggled and forlorn or worse I cycled home at lunch to find her meowing up a ruckus outside. she then did this celebration wriggle

http://imgur.com/pT339za
http://imgur.com/qXrmj2l

Boo

https://i.imgur.com/qXrmj2lh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pT339za.jpg

lol

also hurrah the return

It hasn't been raining much in Scotland, strangely.

that's awesome ogmor. i find myself desiring to wriggle like that sometimes.

NV, Bruges is great. Not that great when it rains, but even then it's still p great.

please tell me you tickled that beautiful cat’s belly

sunny on the south coast today

xp always. she's normally a quiet cat but she wouldn't shut up when I found her. her brother was doing little subdued mournful meows this morning and looking for her under the sofa, thankfully he can go back to terrorising her now.

miserable pussy reign

lol

this BBC guy in Wainfleet is standing next to flooded street and every time he's on camera he says something bewildering:
- "it's like looking at a lake, you see the perfect reflections of the houses" : what!?
- "270 tons of sandbags! To give you an idea, a polar bear weighs one ton." : WHAT!?

I knew Gove (or "Govey" as a farmer refereed to him on the Farming Today earlier) was promoting an environmental policy to deploy a limited number of beavers to strengthen natural flood defenses, it clearly didn't work. So perhaps now he's trying polar bears?

These local reporters have very few chances to get on national television - particularly if you're stuck out somewhere where nothing happens, like Lincolnshire - so they have to make the most of it in in the (usually vain) hope that they'll impress someone in London who will rescue from a life of reporting on overflowing slurry pits just outside Spalding.

Fuck's sake. I can only remember one day in the last 20 when it hasn't pissed down. As someone who cycles to and from work in my work clothes and has to leave my bike uncovered all day long, this is stretching my patience. Just checked the forecast and it says it's going to rain continuously from this morning until Sunday evening. Great.

this is exactly the thread I'd expect to see this morning, feeling a bit Ill and god does it look grim out there

I can guarantee that it's going to stop raining because I've just bought a new waterproof jacket online.

yeah this is OTT. it's not usually this bad this time of year

i haven’t been minding the rain, but that is at least in part because i’ve stopped cycling into work regularly. I would feel a lot closer to NBS’s mood otherwise.

I'll take a sunny -20 in January over this, thank you very much.

i remember from my time in poland that -20 is pushing it a bit for me. but clear winter’s days are wonderful.

however i do love the autumn damps and fogs.

I like it as well, there's just a bit too much of it here, and the dearth of stark contrasts is killing me. I suppose it all comes down to habit.

that’s interesting about the stark contrasts and its true grey skies and dull/coolish/mild days happen all year round.

but one of the things i miss about the countryside is the stronger sense of seasonal variation than you get in the city. smell of leaf mulch at this time of year, evaporating dew on early summer mornings, light dustings of snow on iron hard ground. those fogs, mists, drizzles and drears. the slightly brittle sense of warmth and emergent life in spring etc. dead, miserable february and early march.

that's beautiful fizzles and it almost makes me want to live in the countryside

Seconded!

I'm halfway there (or so it seems to me), but it's not quite the same.