Quail, puny mortals!

[nineveh_uk]

A great gold fire burns in the sky! Surely our doom is upon us as the flaming meteor plunges towards earth.

News just in, apparently it's the sun, deciding to turn up after several months absence. I have also learned this weekend that sky is not always white or grey-coloured and wet, but can also do blue and dry. It is all very cheering.

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[ironed_orchid]

Will happily swap with you. Much as I love blue skies, they get monotonous after 3 months.

[nineveh_uk]

We could split, half and half.

[ironed_orchid]

Even a couple of weeks in the middle would break the monotony.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I think I caught a glimpse of that thing for an hour or so this afternoon too. No need to panic it's gone now :) But there's only patches of snow left and the snowdrops are out!

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

The emergence of snowdrops is greatly cheering. As is the disappearance of snow (though I want it to hang on in Lapland for a while yet since I am going there in a week and a half).

[snorkackcatcher]

It'll never catch on.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

It hasn't!

[widsidh.livejournal.com]

Don't jinx it...

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Too late!

[mobile-alh.livejournal.com]

I am reminded of an old Bill Cosby routine about the reaction of Seattle denizens to a similar phenomenon: "Was our town bad?"

What a lovely surprise for you!

[sonetka.livejournal.com]

I live in Seattle and Cosby spoke God's honest truth with that one. It was nice and sunny today and people were going on like they'd just found a winning lottery ticket.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I am fond of the joke about Bergen, in which a tourist stops a boy and asks him if it ever stops raining. "I don't know," the boy replies, "I'm only nine."

[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

There's a line in Ghosts - Osvald, just back from Paris, exclaims "God, does it never stop raining!" which always raises a huge laugh when it's played in Manchester, especially since Ghosts opening in Manchester seems to be a signal for the monsoon to start.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I shall be going to Ghosts on Friday - I shall listen out for it!

When I was at school, the signal for the monsoon was singing "When I Needed a Neighbour" in assembly.

[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

September 1989. Apparently I am that rare thing, a tourist who has photos of Bergen from the top of Blåmannen in which you can actually see Bergen.

A friend who deals with EU project funding on Exmoor said that her meeting of women farmers the other week, a new arrival recently moved from Kent said all the neighbours kept coming round to see how she was coping with the weather. Mind you, I don't think Kent has been much better in the past few months.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I am sure that Bergen looks lovely when you can see it...

At least people in Kent get the fun of snow on occasion.

[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

I had three clear days of brilliant sun the only time I was ever in Seattle, and I suspect the locals thought someone on the conference - it was INTA - had been practising necromancy. This routine was repeated over and over:

DELEGATE: My God, what an absolutely amazing view, how can any of you ever get any work done with that to look at?
LOCAL: We don't usually get to see it.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Reliable cloud seeding technology cannot come soon enough for western coasts...

[sonetka.livejournal.com]

"The mountain is out today" is how we say that the weather is exceptionally good. It's like the god Rainier has smiled upon us and consented to show his face, until we anger him once more.

You can get used to good views pretty fast, though. When I lived in Salt Lake, all I had to do was walk ten minutes uphill and I could take postcard-like photos of the surrounding mountains and the lake with no trouble. The result was that after a few months I stopped noticing it (until I had to move -- I missed it then).

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

That is an excellent joke.

It was very nice - my parents were visiting and the last few times they've been here or I've been with them, the weather has been very poor.

[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

Well it's gone again now. *grump*

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I am looking at the forecast and feeling deeply unimpressed.

[tree_and_leaf]

We had it last week - but it's gone again.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

They were talking about snow on the forecast this evening, though not for here...