In which we have a trip out by train
Published at 5:50 pm on June 1st, 2010
Filed under: Dear Diary, Geekery, Trains.
Never mind “Spring Bank Holiday”: it’s June, and it feels like it’s summer already: last weekend, we had a day at the beach, and both ended up horribly sunburned. As shorts aren’t an option for work, I winced every time I moved my legs. Yesterday: a bank holiday weekend, and beautiful sunshine again, so we went off for a cream tea and a steam train ride.
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Keyword noise: Buckfastleigh, countryside, Devon, railway, River Dart, rural, seasons, South Devon Railway, Staverton, steam, steam train, summer, Totnes, travel, weather.
In which things get sweaty
Published at 10:27 pm on July 2nd, 2009
Filed under: Dear Diary.
I had hoped that a thunderstorm would clear the air, get rid of some of the humidity, cool things down a bit. Unfortunately, nothing changed. We had the thunderstorm, and half an hour later the ground was dry and the weather was still hot, muggy, and sticky to the touch. Oh well. Summer isn’t nice when it’s too hot to think.
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Keyword noise: art, Ashton Gate, Bristol, Bristol City, Easton, Easton Arts Trail, heat, hot, July, seasons, summer, Tesco, weather.
In which I don't like the weather
Published at 5:01 pm on May 31st, 2009
Filed under: Dear Diary.
No, really. I never thought I’d say that, and the regular readers all probably thought they’d never hear it too. But, yes, the past couple of days have made me glad to be British?
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Keyword noise: heat, seasons, summer, sun, weather.
In which we celebrate a milestone
Published at 1:38 pm on March 17th, 2009
Filed under: Dear Diary.
It’s nearly six months, now, since we moved house, and we seem to have made it through the winter. By next week the days will be longer than the nights; and this morning, when we left the house, the sky was blue and the sun shone down on us. Astronomically we might be at the start of spring; outside, it feels as if spring is already verging on summer.
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Keyword noise: anniversary, equinox, seasons, spring, summer, weather.
In which we visit Cornwall
Published at 9:05 am on December 5th, 2008
Filed under: Photobloggery.
This week, still from my summer holiday uploads: castles and derelict mineshafts.
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Keyword noise: castles, Chapel Porth, Cornwall, Haunters Of The Deep, holiday, mineshaft, photography, Restormel Castle, St Agnes, summer, Towanroath.
In which it's still summer
Published at 4:06 pm on November 21st, 2008
Filed under: Photobloggery.
As it’s Friday again, some more summer photos.
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Keyword noise: boats, Cornwall, dogs, fog horn, Goonhilly, holiday, lifeboat, lighthouse, Lizard, photography, Polpeor Cove, satellite dish, sleepy, St Ives, summer, tourists.
In which we photograph the deep blue sea
Published at 9:32 am on November 14th, 2008
Filed under: Photobloggery, The Family.
I grew up not far from the sea. I didn’t go down to the beach or the seafront very often, but I was close enough that you could see out to sea from the top deck of my school bus. I’ve always felt good by the sea.*
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Keyword noise: art, boats, Carrick Roads, Cornwall, Falmouth, feedback, fishermen, genealogy, Gyllyngvase, harbour, holiday, Pete Dolby, photography, Porthminster, sea, smugglers, St Ives, summer, water.
Not only have I been behind on updating this site, I’ve been getting behind on posting photos online. I generally stick to posting 6 to 8 photos per day, partly because uploading them is such a slow and tedious job that I can’t be bothered doing any more. This, however, means that I’m still only at the start of posting photos of our summer camping trip, down to Cornwall. That was: August. It’s now: November. That’s some delay. Here, though, are some examples, of hot, sunny, summer Cornish weather.
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Keyword noise: Carrick Roads, cathedral, Cornwall, Falmouth, harbour, holiday, photography, summer, Truro.
In which things get hot and sticky
Published at 9:06 pm on July 31st, 2008
Filed under: Meta.
Was I saying how nice summer is? I’m regretting it. It’s hot, sticky, damp and humid, with a constant light drizzle which isn’t at all refreshing. Every so often there’s a flash of summer lightning in the sky, so far away the thunder can’t even be heard. The world is quiet, and I have the desire to do something creative but not the energy to do it. I can picture any number of opening scenes in my head, but lack the power to describe. Time for the third cold shower of the day. I can picture a closing scene, but don’t know how to reach it.
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Keyword noise: hot, humid, summer, thunder, weather.
In which we relax
Published at 11:48 am on July 29th, 2008
Filed under: Dear Diary, Meta.
Yes, things have been a little quiet recently. This is because things are happening. Not necessarily good things, not necessarily bad things, not necessarily either. For that matter, not everything is by any means one or the other.
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Keyword noise: Brandon Hill, Bristol, hiatus, relaxation, summer.
In which we relax in a park
Published at 11:57 am on September 15th, 2007
Filed under: Photobloggery.
Photos from the Jardin du Luxembourg on a Sunday morning. Old men playing chess under a canopy. Hidden away in the groves of trees, a man practises moving a sword around. People sit on benches in the shade, enjoying the last weekend of the August holiday.
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Keyword noise: August, chess, holiday, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, park, summer, swordsman, trees.
In which we can see the weather coming
Published at 3:22 pm on August 10th, 2007
Filed under: Dear Diary.
In which summer breaks through the fog
Published at 6:32 pm on March 27th, 2007
Filed under: Dear Diary.
When I write posts on here, I normally write the title first, then ramble on about it.
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Keyword noise: driving, British Summer Time, daylight savings time, fog, Hull, Humber Bridge, seasons, summer, weather, Yorkshire.
In which it is probably Midsummer
Published at 9:48 am on June 21st, 2006
Filed under: Dear Diary, Unbelievable.
I was thinking: really, I should post something newsworthy, or political, because there hasn’t been much of that on here lately. Nothing in the news has caught my eye, though – it’s all been football-related, and I really couldn’t care one way or the other about it. Then, though, I remembered that today is the summer solstice.*
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Keyword noise: annual, astronomy, End Of The Year, ephemeris, festival, midsummer, seasons, solstice, summer, summer solstice.
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 it feels like summer
Published at 9:23 pm on March 25th, 2006
Filed under: Dear Diary.