Stormy Weather

[marthe]

I'll trade any of you one of your rainy days for one of our sunny days. My garden is dry and even the ferns in the shade garden are drooping their heads! @saly, I'm still here but have had schedule overload this past week. Today is my day off so I'm catching up. Musn't grumble about the weather because it's the "perfect summer weather" beloved by tourists who don't like to have their holiday spoiled by rain. I'm hoping this glorious, but dry, weather finds its way across the water to all of you who are enduring the wet and grey.

[BBMmk2]

Well our weather, so the experts say, be here to the end of this year! Thanks to the Jetstream!

[teamsaint]

When i was doing jury service, and I am not making this up, we had a forensic witness called Dr Dabbs.

I was helpless with laughter, in an otherwise silent courtroom.

[Nick Armstrong]

When i was doing jury service, and I am not making this up, we had a forensic witness called Dr Dabbs.

I was helpless with laughter, in an otherwise silent courtroom.

Classic!

There's a phrase for this: Nominative Determinism.

Other examples:

The maintenance manager at British Waterways is called Lee King.

The CEO of the UK Border Agency is called Rob Whiteman.

A sommelier with Kimpton Hotel Group is called Emily Wines.

And one for history buffs:

The expert sent by the Lord Chamberlain's office to police the nude revue at the Windmill Theatre, Soho, in the 1930s was called George Titman.

[Nick Armstrong]

PS it can work, of course, for entities rather than individuals.... I fell about when I first saw a rather annoying letter a colleague received from a firm of solicitors called Wright Hassall

http://www.wrighthassall.co.uk/

[Nick Armstrong]

PS2 Quite nice weather in London today (desperate attempt to atone for helping derail this thread )

[Petrushka]

PS it can work, of course, for entities rather than individuals.... I fell about when I first saw a rather annoying letter a colleague received from a firm of solicitors called Wright Hassall

http://www.wrighthassall.co.uk/

Sort of on topic, one of the local TV weather forecasters here on BBC Midlands Today is Sara Blizzard.

After horrendous rain on Friday and Saturday we are now promised........more horrendous rain tomorrow, and Wednesday , and Thursday ...

I think this surely has to rank as the worst summer in my 58 years. Some have been bad such as those in the mid 1980s but 2012 comfortably sees off all challengers. Bookies have slashed the odds of rain on the opening night of the Olympics to even money.

[Nick Armstrong]

one of the local TV weather forecasters here on BBC Midlands Today is Sara Blizzard.

[mercia]

Saw things very black and white...

<doh> !

[salymap]

Order,order! Sun is out here at the moment. I hope it is shining where you are, whoops, it's gone.

[BBMmk2]

That yellow round thing that is up in the sky? What's it called again...............?

[amateur51]

Order,order! Sun is out here at the moment. I hope it is shining where you are, whoops, it's gone.

It was sunny here at 09:00 - now we've got rain & hail

[Serial_Apologist]

It was sunny here at 09:00 - now we've got rain & hail

We missed the hail here in sarf Lunnun but got thunder and lightning - so I s'pose that's 2 out of 3 to feel glad about.

[salymap]

I thought we was sort of considered as sarf Lunnun these 'ere days, but, like, ain't had no thunder and lightning.Like.

Half an hour later, we have now - the lot, am switching this off.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Heavy showers on the way to work this morning: clear skies, bright sunshine now - one might almost think it were Summer!