Goose!
These guys were behind a farm shop we visited today. There’s something…I dunno. Surreal about this picture. Maybe because they’re all looking in different directions. I can imagine some kind of dialogue of the absurd going on here. With geese!
The weather in our little corner of the realm has been gorgeous. Relentlessly, mercilessly, unflinchingly gorgeous. Since about the second week in February, it’s been sunny and in the fifties every damn day. It’s rained maybe twice. Uncle B is going nuts watering stuff in the garden.
Everybody says they don’t remember a Spring like it, ever.
This is not the English weather I signed on for.
I’m telling you, folks, all this frolicking in the sunshine is wearing me the hell out.
April 23, 2009 — 7:45 pm
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Do you know why the Brits talk about the weather so much?
Because their weather is fucking psychotic, that’s why.
I was minding my own business, weeding the driveway (my driveway is BRICK! Hahaha! But it hasn’t been weeded in a thousand years). It was sunny, warm, if a bit windy.
And then this spooky bastard blew up, pelted me with hail for five minutes, and flew off again.
I was like, “WTF?! Did anybody get the number on that bus?”
Then it was sunny again. Stupid England.
Happy Friday, everyone! (Yeah, funny that. Even when you’re unemployed, it matters).
March 27, 2009 — 8:47 pm
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Snow day!
Fat balls for everyone!
There must be something in the avian metabolism that says, “eat! Eat like the wind!” when the snows come, because I have never seen so many little featherheaded bastards in my life, all jostling, squeaking and flapping around my leftovers. I had to bring them seconds and thirds or there was gonna be murder. Murder in my garden.
I reckon we got about four inches down here. No big, but enough to grind local commerce to a halt. London, they shut down part of the Underground (“part of it isn’t under ground,” Uncle B explained). That’s more than Hitler managed.
The Daily Mail is full of ZOMG and freakout, but that’s their job. Our local forecast looks like it’s all going over to rain tonight.
Pity. It was beautiful while it lasted.
February 2, 2009 — 8:42 pm
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