Regular readers might have noticed that the site has been quiet since the weekend. It’s been quiet because I’ve been somewhat busy moving house: one of the most stressful things you can do in life, or so everyone always says. The previous post was written whilst I was surrounded by removal men trying to pack everything up into well-padded boxes. A strange experience, sitting in a corner of your front room trying to keep yourself occupied as all around you all your stuff is picked up and handled and wrapped and boxed away.
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Keyword noise: Cymru, Wales, Casnewydd, Newport, moving house, rain, countryside, afon, river, railway, rheilffordd, Brecon & Merthyr Railway.
In which we are not as wet as we might have been
Published at 10:31 pm on May 29th, 2008
Filed under: Dear Diary.
Last weekend, feeling like we needed a holiday, we went away and pitched the tent. And it rained. The tent, fortunately, didn’t leak, but we ended up with great puddles round the door, a wading trip whenever we wanted to go in or out. Our last morning, we looked out to see ducks sitting and paddling in the water.
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Keyword noise: camping, Cheddar, ducks, flooding, holiday, rain, Somerset, weather.
In which we remember how cold it was in Wales
Published at 9:01 pm on April 3rd, 2008
Filed under: Dear Diary, Photobloggery.
All of a sudden, this week, summer seems to be on the way. It can’t just be that we’re doing everything an hour later than we were a week ago. There’s something particular about a cool summer morning, or a drowsy summer evening, that this week has in spades.
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Keyword noise: Blaenau Ffestiniog, Caernarfon, Eryri, Ffestiniog, Llechwedd, Afon Menai, Menai Strait, Cymru, Gogledd Cymru, North Wales, photography, rain, seasons, Snowdonia, Wales, weather.
In which we’re weatherbeaten
Published at 9:54 pm on March 27th, 2008
Filed under: Dear Diary.
Yes, typical. I write something about how unreliable the long-range weather forecast is, and what happens? It’s right for once. And the short term forecast – no snow in Wales – was wrong, too. We had a weekend of rain, sleet, snow, hail, wind. When I started to put the tent up, and was engulfed in a cloud of hail, I should have known it was a bad sign.
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Keyword noise: Cymru, tywydd, camping, hail, holiday, rain, snow, Wales, weather, wind.
In which we worry about the weather
Published at 10:49 pm on March 19th, 2008
Filed under: Dear Diary, Geekery.
In which we think about flooding and chance
Published at 10:56 pm on January 21st, 2008
Filed under: Geekery, Political.
In the summer, we had big floods up here, worse floods than anyone in this village could remember. It was, apparently, a once in fifty years event.
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Keyword noise: climate change, flooding, Hull, probability, rain, statistics, weather.
In which there is a flood, and the flood sirens stay silent as per specification
Published at 8:51 am on June 16th, 2007
Filed under: Dear Diary, Political.
A few months back now, the famously low-quality Local Council decided to spend lots and lots of money on flood warning equipment. They picked the most advanced flood warning system they could find, and erected enormous, giant-scale towers around the town, with large banks of speakers on top. They published maps of the town, with circles spattered over them, looking rather like those 1980s maps of nuclear blast radius,* so everyone knew which areas would be able to hear the flood sirens.
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Keyword noise: alarm, flood warning, flooding, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, rain, siren, weather.
Or, postcards from Cornwall
Published at 1:35 pm on May 28th, 2007
Filed under: Dear Diary.
In which we know it’s winter
Published at 10:27 pm on January 21st, 2007
Filed under: Dear Diary.
It’s not only Friday again, but it’s my last day in the office until July. Hurrah! Come Sunday, I’m off down to London for a week, to mooch around museums, go to a Shimura Curves gig, do some geek-shopping, and generally get up to nefarious stuff. I’ve already arranged to meet a few intimidating internet people, who, I suspect, are not to be trifled with; but if anyone else would like to stalk meet me, get in touch.
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Keyword noise: Big Dave, campaigning, camping, congratulations, gig, holiday, London, music, rain, Shimura Curves, travel, weather.
In which we are over-optimistic about it being beach weather
Published at 10:29 pm on April 5th, 2006
Filed under: Dear Diary.
Driving to work this morning: the sun was warm, and the sky blue. Leaving the office at lunch time: the car was hot, and I zoomed along with the windows down.* “Lovely,” I thought, “why not go to the beach?”
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Keyword noise: beach, lunch, rain, sea, seaside, summer, weather.
In which we want to snuggle up by the fire
Published at 9:47 pm on March 27th, 2006
Filed under: Dear Diary.
In which the city makes me think of music
Published at 3:21 pm on July 20th, 2002
Filed under: The Old Blog, Dear Diary.
Of course, in the end we didn’t discuss Festival stuff at all, just drank ate and gossipped. After that, we wandered round the New Town looking for ideal places for our next Picnic (next Saturday), and looking in people’s front windows.
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Keyword noise: Edinburgh, The Clientele, rain, weather.
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