a haori habit
Jul. 10th, 2012 01:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incandescensA quiet, grey sort of day today. I took a just-acquired-off-ebay haori into work to show some of my coworkers, who had been curious. Two of them ended up asking me to give me the name of the ebay seller who'd provided it. I will be interested to see what comes of that.
(I have a bit of a haori habit.)
No actual huge rainstorms in the immediate area today, though a bit of drizzle while on the way home. The news and newspapers can't stop talking about the weather. Amusing bit in one article from the Independent:
After the wettest June on record, Britain is now on course to challenge the rain-lashed Edwardian summer of 1912 – the year when Scott was beaten to the Antarctic, the Titanic sank and 384.4mm of rain fell to make it the soggiest on record.
However, the good news for Ms Spelman [the Environment Secretary], who has already announced a further £2bn to boost flood defences in the wake of the continuing deluge, is that there is still some way to go before 2012 rivals 1816 – the notorious "year without a summer". Then, before the advent of reliable data, summer frosts and 142 days of near continuous rain between May and September led to hunger and rioting.
So let's hope that we don't have an 1816 of a year.
Even if it might persuade people to buy my quilts on etsy.
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The rain it raineth every day
Upon the just and unjust fella,
But more upon the just, because
The unjust has the just's umbrella.
-- Anon
(I have a bit of a haori habit.)
No actual huge rainstorms in the immediate area today, though a bit of drizzle while on the way home. The news and newspapers can't stop talking about the weather. Amusing bit in one article from the Independent:
After the wettest June on record, Britain is now on course to challenge the rain-lashed Edwardian summer of 1912 – the year when Scott was beaten to the Antarctic, the Titanic sank and 384.4mm of rain fell to make it the soggiest on record.
However, the good news for Ms Spelman [the Environment Secretary], who has already announced a further £2bn to boost flood defences in the wake of the continuing deluge, is that there is still some way to go before 2012 rivals 1816 – the notorious "year without a summer". Then, before the advent of reliable data, summer frosts and 142 days of near continuous rain between May and September led to hunger and rioting.
So let's hope that we don't have an 1816 of a year.
Even if it might persuade people to buy my quilts on etsy.
---
The rain it raineth every day
Upon the just and unjust fella,
But more upon the just, because
The unjust has the just's umbrella.
-- Anon
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Date: 2012-07-10 02:46 am (UTC)I'll take some of that rain if you want!
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Date: 2012-07-10 08:59 am (UTC)Alas that even Beta or Barrayar don't have weather-sharing technology.