Stormy Weather

[EdgeleyRob]

you be hausled up and be scrutinised

Don't knock it til you've tried it.

Get well soon Salymap.

[Nick Armstrong]

Don't knock it til you've tried it.

I did. I still can't sit down...

[Petrushka]

Office colleagues may moan when you pass on your cold to them but fact is if you took time off sick for a cold you'd be a laughing stock and a wimp etc. It's one of those no-win situations really.

[Serial_Apologist]

Office colleagues may moan when you pass on your cold to them but fact is if you took time off sick for a cold you'd be a laughing stock and a wimp etc. It's one of those no-win situations really.

Exactly!

I couldn't wait to retire; and yet, many people seem to regard the whole meaning of their lives as revolving around the job they do.

Techology is supposed to reduce work and allow more leisure time. Tell that to the fairies.

[eighthobstruction]

called King of the Fairies

[BBMmk2]

called King of the Fairies

Since thye advent of technology, the workload of office people has certainly increased, also in education.

[Flay]

Since thye advent of technology, the workload of office people has certainly increased, also in education.

And vastly so in medicine. This also comes with an inescapable audit trail so there is no chance to cover up for ones sins (as Dr Shipman discovered eventually)

[Serial_Apologist]

Since thye advent of technology, the workload of office people has certainly increased, also in education.

So multifarious are the means, offers, credit arrangements and qualifications that nowadays perpetually slow down procedures, it also takes much longer to pass through supermarket check-outs than was their original intention - unless like me you just...... pay.

[BBMmk2]

Indeed, SA!

Rather overcast and dull today!

[Flosshilde]

Raining here today - Spring's arrived!

Seriously, we could do with some rain after a couple of very dry months, & if the temperature rises a bit things might start growing.

[Serial_Apologist]

Raining here today - Spring's arrived!

Reminds me of when I worked in Switzerland, where snow began falling in October. One day, mid-March, I just happened to remark on a tiny trickle of moisture emanating from long-frozen mounds of acumumulated gunk lining the roads everywhere. "Ah!", exclaimed one of my colleagues, "that means the spring has arrived!" - - as indeed it had. Seasons are it seemed more-clear-cut in Switzerland: they do things more tidily there.

Seriously, we could do with some rain after a couple of very dry months, & if the temperature rises a bit things might start growing.

As I was saying the other day about drought soon being on the agenda, , and, yes, above + 8 C growth starts among the native vegetations. 20 C was being predicted somewhere in the E Midlands/E Anglia for Sunday, but I now see it's not expected to rise above 16 C here in S London on that day - and with a stiff breeze to take the edge off. But never mind - winds are going around to south-westerly, from which quadrant they will predominantly be arriving for some time to come.

Great, just great!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

we are all panting for 20c in the middle kingdom ..... and must report that the great inland sea has never been so full, all previous high water marks have been surpassed by the melted snow ...

[BBMmk2]

That's saying something Jazzy!! It's supposed to be 19C down here on Sunday!

[Serial_Apologist]

That's saying something Jazzy!! It's supposed to be 19C down here on Sunday!

Wot, with all that air coming off of the sea? No chance, bruv!

I thought Brummie Simon's prediction of 23 C for Peterboro' on Sunday a tad optimistic at the time!

[Serial_Apologist]

Has Caliban been washed away? We had a thundery downpour over London half an hour ago, since when nothing has been heard of him!