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The Seventh Day.
Remember what I wrote on December 1? I said that I’d not mind it being cold, if it snowed, but please, no rain. Guess what. Every single day so far: sometimes stormy, sometimes just drizzle but rain...
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Time To Build?
Day 16: two wombats, a pair of lamas and a couple of elephants came to the front door today asking whether we still had room for a few more passengers. Yes, it is still raining here. Perhaps I ought to...
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Not Happening.
Just to let you all know, this is what is not happening around here. It is raining for the 23rd day in a row. No white Christmas for me. Love & Kisses, Viki Graphic Source: Tumblr. The post Not...
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I don’t know what the weather is like where you are, but we’ve got a little hint of coldness in the air now. In Thuringia it is estimated at -25°C for the coming night, we will have a fairly...
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Warming Thoughts.
It’s cold. In fact, if we’re going to use words to describe the weather at the moment, it is absolutely freezing. Quite literally. A few nights ago we had -25°C here, and during the day it has...
View ArticleAn Eleventh Thing!
Having given you ten things about bus travel yesterday, another sprang into my mind this afternoon which I thought, just for fun, I might share with you all. People who get into the bus, wrapped up to...
View ArticleMixtures.
Hard to say what sort of a day it was today. It began cold, then the sun came out with long, hot patches between the shadows. Then the clouds began to form and, as the day progressed, darken. Late...
View ArticleWatching Rainclouds.
Sporadic sunshine, and then thick clouds. The rain hit us hard today; not flood type rain, not monsoon rain, but rain enough. I watched it from the bus as we drove back towards my home. The dark clouds...
View ArticleSlipping And Sliding
The days of snow are drawing to a close. Last night it rained, then froze, and that meant the streets were like an ice rink this morning. Not the best start to a Monday morning, but the thought of...
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Soon….
It’s that time of year again. Thanksgiving and Christmas are behind us, the winter sales have emptied our pockets – what was left over after paying for all those presents and parties – and we’re...
View ArticleDangerous Driving
I don’t know whether you’ve read about any accidents on the road recently involving drivers who have been using their smartphones to surf the Internet, to write on Twitter, update their Facebook status...
View ArticleSad Sight
I’m not sure whether this person is just sad and lonely or sad – in a not particularly nice way – but today I saw a four foot high plastic snowman in someone’s front garden. As if we hadn’t enough of...
View ArticleNot Good
I have discovered something interesting. Now, for most of you it will probably be an absolute nothing, but it amused me on the way out earlier for an evening with friends. As we walked over to the car,...
View ArticleSo Much For…
.. the summer and sun! Whilst other people and areas have been plagued with too much water from rivers, we are being drowned by rain. The summer, it seems, is simply not going to appear this year, and...
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Throttling The Frog
I’ve come across some weird names in my time, as I am sure we all have when looking at celebrities children, but the German term for a weather forecaster just about takes all job titles. They’re called...
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Cold!
Today is definitely one of those days when I want to stay in bed and just cuddle up beneath the covers, especially when I look out of the window and see what the weather is like and hear on the news...
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Obvious?
Just in case anyone hasn’t noticed, not that it’s been in the news or packing punches across social media for the last week or so, but it’s cold outside. Luckily for me, it’s cold outside elsewhere....
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Sprung Spring
I could almost say finally, but it hasn’t been all that bad this year. Spring, judging by what I see, is finally here: flowers are beginning to show their heads, buds are on the trees, the birds are...
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Sunny Spells With A Chance Of Rain
I shouldn’t complain, it has been a mild winter and a good spring so far, so a little rain now and then is hardly a bad thing. Not that everyone sees it that way: when it is cold everyone complains and...
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It Rains In Paradise Too
This morning I had the dubious pleasure of seeing that nothing is really what it seems, nothing is always constant. We had a storm last night. That is, we had a very brief, heavy rain storm which swept...
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A Rush For The Exit
Soaring temperatures, sunny weather and a long weekend. Exactly the right time to be out and enjoying some of the leisure activities a town or city has to offer. Here in Germany such activities take...
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Dreaming Of Sunshine
You know those days when you just want to drop everything and get out there: into the garden, on to the beach, anywhere where you can just stretch out, relax and enjoy the sun? Photo Credit: 樹/Tatsuru...
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Summer Sun And Bellybuttons
If the sun would just come on out for more than an hour at a time, and not be broken up in its visits by rain, we could almost claim that the summer is here. And with the summer we’d see the end of...
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Claiming The Glory, Unearned
If you reads through the m,any posts here, you will notice that I do not take any one particular side when it comes to politics, whether it be US or European. Unlike many, if not most, politicians, I...
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2016: First Snow, But No Chaos!
It snowed overnight. Light flakes of cold snow fell and covered everything outside, creating a wonderful vision which, for many, would have been more welcome over Christmas, but at least it is finally...
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Sudden Snow: Winter Takes Its Toll
It seems as if the winter weather, the sudden fall of snow, did catch more people by surprise than I had thought. Convinced that the bad weather falling on a Sunday morning would have a more positive...
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Snowed In? How To Pass The Time
As the threat of an all-covering blizzard threatens, and the first snowflakes fall across the States, it is time to seriously consider what you are doing with your life. Here you are, stocked up with...
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Taking Dress Codes To Extremes
You think you’ve got it bad with Dress Codes? Short skirts, low-cut tops, judges and teachers who have no sensibility whatsoever? Let me introduce you to the man who knows a thing about Dress Codes and...
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Stuff Your Global Warming
It’s the start of spring over here, and we have had several hours of sunshine to prove it. Everywhere the flowers are beginning to bloom, the trees are taking on the first of many shades of green and...
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Seriously Guys: A Snowflake!
It’s easy to understand those who make fun of the panic which arises every single year during the surprise outbreak of winter. You’d think most people had managed to grasp the concept of seasons, how...
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