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The more it snows, Tiddley-Pom...
Apr. 6th, 2008 08:50 pmDear Mother Nature:
Please look up the term 'Temperate Climate'. Then kindly look up 'April'.
Got that?
Excellent.
Well, perhaps now you'd like to explain why it is that we came home to a thick blanket of snow this afternoon, and why it continued to snow for the rest of the day. It is APRIL! We left Canterbury on Friday night, when it was clear and sunny and so balmy that at gone 7pm I still didn't need a jacket. It has now turned to Midwinter, only Midwinter with blossoms and leaves on the trees, and flowers everywhere. Very bizzare.
Yes, so we had a fleeting visit to Cambridge this weekend, to see our friends Anna & Russ, who were as delightful and hospitable as always. They filled us with cheese and chocolate, and took us to a farm where we could all have a very cold ride on a wagon pulled by giant Shire Horses, point at the baby lambs (which must be very cold tonight) and where Vi could spend forever trying to pick up gravel and staring at the roosters. Violet also had fun pestering A&R's cat, chasing the poor creature around, delightedly crying 'Puss! Puss!' and throwing up twice on their carpets. Poor Anna & Russel. Much fun was had last night watching New Who ( spoilers ) as well as The Breakfast Club, which neither of us had ever seen before, which was cool apart from the silly ending (what was with all the sudden Coupling Up? And I thought that weird girl looked much better with scary eyeliner, black baggy clothes and trainers than after she'd been made-over. 'OMGSHE'SBEAUTIFULAFTERALL Movie Makeovers - blecch. And where did she get the clothes, hmm?) and Judd Nelson playing a teenager when he had GREY FRICKIN HAIR! Our comedy guestimates of his real age got increasingly older as the film wore on. We then watched the first half hour of the Buffy movie before we all gave up and went to beddy.
And we saw Ian & Sadie too, who only have 6 weeks to go til they're due - eee!
...And then we came back to the snow.
And a completely knackered freezer, for no apparent reason. Luckily we only had a tenner if that worth of food in there, and the stuff I wanted to use tonight was still useable, but hmm. Very odd!
Please look up the term 'Temperate Climate'. Then kindly look up 'April'.
Got that?
Excellent.
Well, perhaps now you'd like to explain why it is that we came home to a thick blanket of snow this afternoon, and why it continued to snow for the rest of the day. It is APRIL! We left Canterbury on Friday night, when it was clear and sunny and so balmy that at gone 7pm I still didn't need a jacket. It has now turned to Midwinter, only Midwinter with blossoms and leaves on the trees, and flowers everywhere. Very bizzare.
Yes, so we had a fleeting visit to Cambridge this weekend, to see our friends Anna & Russ, who were as delightful and hospitable as always. They filled us with cheese and chocolate, and took us to a farm where we could all have a very cold ride on a wagon pulled by giant Shire Horses, point at the baby lambs (which must be very cold tonight) and where Vi could spend forever trying to pick up gravel and staring at the roosters. Violet also had fun pestering A&R's cat, chasing the poor creature around, delightedly crying 'Puss! Puss!' and throwing up twice on their carpets. Poor Anna & Russel. Much fun was had last night watching New Who ( spoilers ) as well as The Breakfast Club, which neither of us had ever seen before, which was cool apart from the silly ending (what was with all the sudden Coupling Up? And I thought that weird girl looked much better with scary eyeliner, black baggy clothes and trainers than after she'd been made-over. 'OMGSHE'SBEAUTIFULAFTERALL Movie Makeovers - blecch. And where did she get the clothes, hmm?) and Judd Nelson playing a teenager when he had GREY FRICKIN HAIR! Our comedy guestimates of his real age got increasingly older as the film wore on. We then watched the first half hour of the Buffy movie before we all gave up and went to beddy.
And we saw Ian & Sadie too, who only have 6 weeks to go til they're due - eee!
...And then we came back to the snow.
And a completely knackered freezer, for no apparent reason. Luckily we only had a tenner if that worth of food in there, and the stuff I wanted to use tonight was still useable, but hmm. Very odd!
