Stormy Weather

[Pabmusic]

...Very glad to hear that things are not likely to be as bad as your recent upheaval, Pabs

Thanks, all. We've had a couple of typhoons since, but both were category 2 - not much different from anything we're used to in Britain (strong winds and heavy rain). It's now the summer - a comparative term really, meaning a bit hotter than usual (32-36 degrees C; 'usual' is perhaps 28-34 degrees) and very little rain. We are now missing the rain and everything's dusty - each morning my brother-in-law draws water from our well and damps down the road that passes his store.

But it rained a little last night, so the atmosphere is cleaner this morning.

[BBMmk2]

Great day today!! :)

[Serial_Apologist]

Great day today!! :)

I should say!!! - Brilliant viz, almost cloudless all day, gentle breeze, and with temperatures around 13 C just right for the Marathon, or in my case a 16-odd miles cycle ride I've just returned from, to a welcome cup of lemon tea.

[vinteuil]

... perfect. Gentle walk in the Chilterns - view for miles and miles over the Oxford vale - bluebells much in evidence but will be better in a week or so - back to London for first lunch in the garden this year - cloudless sky - bottle of fizz to celebrate the engagement of Mme V's elder daughter -mow the lawn - brief siesta - Bach Passion ...

[Richard Tarleton]

First orange tip today! Swallows have arrived in force...

[BBMmk2]

First orange tip today! Swallows have arrived in force...

[Petrushka]

Sunny and dry here but a keen wind blowing and that's taking the temperature down a few degrees so heating still on.

[marthe]

Same here, Petrushka. It's sunny and dry but the wind is damp and chilly. Bit by bit spring makes its presence felt if only by the increasing strength of the sunlight. The poet Elinor Wylie describes New England spring as "That spring, briefer than apple-blossom's breath,..."

[BBMmk2]

Another brilliant day today, it looks like!! :)

[Pabmusic]

It's rained most of the day (26 degrees C). Wonderful!

[amateur51]

It's rained most of the day (26 degrees C). Wonderful!

Do they play cricket out your way, Pabs?

PS: I'm informed that the Edmund Crispin that you recommended to me is on its way

[Pabmusic]

Do they play cricket out your way, Pabs?

PS: I'm informed that the Edmund Crispin that you recommended to me is on its way

Apparently, the British captured Manila from the Spanish in 1763 (7 Years' War) but gave it back as part of the peace treaty. So we didn't have it long enough for cricket to get established. However, the Purser aboard the British flagship was (apparently) a direct ancestor of Hubert Parry, which makes up for it a bit!

I defy anyone not to enjoy the Crispin, which is so obviously autobiographical (well...up to a point).

[marthe]

Stormy weather in Newport,RI today. It's raining and blowing a gale with winds coming from the south and east. Moonrise last night was quite dramatic as the full Easter Moon rose through scattered clouds. The total eclipse of the moon, in the early hours of this morning, was blanked out by cloud cover.

[amateur51]

Stormy weather in Newport,RI today. It's raining and blowing a gale with winds coming from the south and east. Moonrise last night was quite dramatic as the full Easter Moon rose through scattered clouds. The total eclipse of the moon, in the early hours of this morning, was blanked out by cloud cover.

Hang on to your hat (and on to HH of course ) marthe - I hope that you & yours come out safely the other side

[marthe]

Thanks ams. HH and I are safely home. The wind and rain are intensifying as I type. The sun will shine tomorrow which is a good thing as I'm going on a guides' (as in museum guides not girl) field trip to visit the Davis Museum at Wellesley College tomorrow.