The weather's grim out there. The garden's looking like a pile of soggy rags. Bleurgh!
Time to dig out some suitable clothing for the commute to work...
...like Precious Wilson and her boys!
Keep dry, dear reader.
Showing posts with label I Can't Stand The Rain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label I Can't Stand The Rain. Show all posts
Thursday, 12 January 2023
Sunday, 27 April 2014
The girl with the big voice
As the spring weather continues playing tricks on us - one minute sunshine, gloom and showers the next - let us mark the birthday today of Miss Ann Peebles with a most appropriate number.
It's the lady's most memorable hit, I Can't Stand the Rain:
Ann Peebles (born 27th April 1947)
Read a recent interview with the great lady in The Guardian
Friday, 13 July 2012
Phew! Glad that drought's over!
As Britain - already suffering under one of the worst summers on record - braces itself for another few more weeks of torrential rain, so the water companies have finally declared that the hosepipe ban (still in place because this was "the wrong kind of rain" apparently) is lifted.
Leave it to The Daily Mash to mark this auspicious occasion as only it can:
Thousands of relieved gardeners are finally able to water the swamp-like areas attached to their houses, as the hosepipe ban is lifted.Read more.
Many homeowners had been concerned that, unless the ban was lifted soon, they would be unable to keep their lawns submerged to the depth required to support larger marine life like catfish and snapping turtles.
Accountant and keen gardener Nathan Muir said: “With only 38 inches of rainfall since January, the mangrove region of our garden, which I navigate with a type of one-man hovercraft, was beginning to dry out very slightly and the alligators which arrived in February were getting a little bit irritable."
An appropriate song, methinks:
Ann Peebles
Friday, 10 September 2010
Against my window
Typical. It is Friday, and we are planning our picnic tomorrow for the grand finalé of the "Summer Season", Proms in the Park. And what is predicted? Rain, of course...
Being from Wales, I suppose I should be used to eating damp sandwiches while wearing a cagoule (that's what trips to Barry Island were usually like when I was a kid), but not at my venerable age! Ho hum...
Nevertheless - thank Disco It's Friday!
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