Stormy Weather

[doversoul1]

I had a letter (well, an email) from a friend in Japan who moaned that, due to the electricity shortage, she had to keep her office air conditioning (I think the system controls the humidity too) at 28 (about 80F, marthe). I said I couldn’t keep my heating to that…

I miss the burning sun, the smell of hot grass, the sound of cicadas and straw hat, and a water melon cooled in the well… All gone now. Ah well.

Saly #1964
Couldn’t agree more.

[BBMmk2]

Mahlerie, your doig looks great!! It's a good idea of vets having doggie socialising classes(noise polluition levels? :) )

[salymap]

Stillhot and humid. 'It's either too hot or too cold' sung to the tune of 'They're either too young or too old'Anyone got the other words.? I'm going to try to sleep.

[2LO]

Just read yours, Salymap. I just love hot, still, humid nights; the sound of midnight waves gently brushing the shore, nightjars, cicadas, people walking up and down my suburban London street talking to their mobiles, car alarms, beat-boxes in cars, police sirens... 'night everyone, sleep well.

[mercia]

waves gently brushing the shore

you can hear that in London? global warming must be worse than I thought

[doversoul1]

you can hear that in London? global warming must be worse than I thought

…and cicadas? AND in the night?

Good morning saly
I hope you slept well. The weather looks better here at this end of Kent. The air is warm but not so humid (not yet so far). My catalpa tree is flowering but the weather cools down too soon for it to grow seeds (the beans) properly. Poor thing.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

morning .... sunny and blue skies in middle kingdom and i swear the hollyhock is over 12ft high and is in abundant bloom ... think i it might just get hot, has the feel of a hot day this morning ...

[salymap]

Afternoon, doversoul. I wish I could sleep well but no. We had a heavy shower earlier but it was very brief, not enough for the plants though.

Quite pleasant now, must get my 15 minutes in the garden before lunch.

[Serial_Apologist]

Afternoon all!

Really humid, almost stifling in Brixton just now - Argos and Tesco's check-out staff not their normal bubbly selves at all. Talk just now of "monsoonian rains" on Thursday down here. Nothing quite like a newly concocted adjective to cheer things up, eh!

[BBMmk2]

Very humid here to near Brighton & Hove. Suppose to cool down by Thursday!!

[2LO]

Mercia and Doversoul, . . .well the lapping waves, cicadas and nightjars were only in my head, I fear. Odd shirtless characters wandering around chatting on their 'phones and police sirens in the distance were all too real. Bit of rain (heavy apparently) on Thursday'll put paid to all this casual behaviour. London was never built for the tropics.

[marthe]

It's still hot and dry here. My plants are wilting, and so am I.

[salymap]

I'm wilting too marthe and the thought of a physio trying to get me to do my balance and bone strengthening exercises later is too much for me. I AM grateful to the NHS but want a rain check today please.

[Lateralthinking1]

Good morning to everyone, even those for whom it isn't morning. Surely your time will come.

A burst water main in the Gatwick area the evening before last disrupted the railway south of London for more than a day. Sardines in cans on what has been among the hottest spells of the year. How I miss the old journey with its ongoing decades of promised improvements.

But my main reason for writing? The 153 on Platform 3 at 8am today. Am I just slightly more alert this breakfast time or is this very unusual? (............and 193 at 9am!)

(..........erm, 307 at 9.17am - has something happened internationally that I am unaware of?)

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

pardon my ignorance Lat but to what do the numbers refer? just hosed the plants and yard so i am soaking for about three minutes ... not a day for too much moving salymap! i hope your physio is merciful