Since 11 am yesterday the rain has been pelting down ...and here I am at 0844 this morning and it still is .... and it is forecast to ease off a bit at 11 am..... that's 24 hours of it. And here's what it looks like ....38mm of rain in 21 hours. And that's on top of days and weeks of it. February Fill-Dyke ,as the country wisdom has it. Mr. G is a great proponent of ... " There's no such thing as bad weather .... just inadequate clothing." But I say .. Tripe ! But that's Geography teachers for you. I've never liked Geography ever since Shuttleworth set fire to my hair in a Geography lesson. He was sitting behind me, and just decide on a whim to put a match to it. And when it got a bit out of hand, he tried to put it out by bashing me on the back of my head with a rather hefty atlas with such force that it slammed my face onto the desk and caused a rather spectacular nose-bleed. Ah yes, those good old schooldays eh ! I got a detention for that. Not Shuttleworth .... just me. And I've hated Geography ever since. Mr. G's motto is ... Geography is going places. And I say ... Astronomy is looking up Geology is on the rocks Mountaineering is on the up. Helter-skelters are on a downward spiral. Learning Latin is declining. Sexual intercourse is conjugating. Fishermen are just spinning a line. Meteorology is all airy-fairy. Taxidermy can get stuffed... And Ornithology is for the birds. But now ..a deeply sad but lovely song by the inimitable Death Cab for Cutie ... .and now you can get even sadder by singing along to the words video... in English and/or Spanish.. There you are then ... meteorology, mischief ,mottoes and music all in one short missive. Marvellous and memorable, miraculously ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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