unpromising

[incandescens]

Bloody weather. It's now turned cool enough that I'm sitting here with a shawl round my shoulders, and several people at work today were wearing cardigans.

It's particularly galling when I compare it to my memories of this time last year. When I went to the Great Northern Quilt Show then, it was a beautifully sunny day at the beginning of September, and I had a nice stroll between the bus stop and the show location, thinking happy thoughts about the lovely weather and the glorious sun and the nicely cooling breeze. I have the impression that this year (on Saturday) I'll be lucky if I get to have happy thoughts about the grey cloudy sky and how nice it is that it's not raining. If it is actively raining, a taxi may be indicated. (The quilt show is in a large area called the Great Yorkshire Show Grounds, which has a number of roofed pavilions for inside exhibits, and a lot of open ground for outside exhibits: getting to the specific roofed pavilion where the quilt show is being held may require a certain amount of travel over the open ground where it is not being held, so to speak. There are proper roads which criss-cross the area: unfortunately, the bus route does not.)

But then . . . quilt show. (rubs hands together)

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I don’t want you to agree with me; I want you to use your misplaced acorn of a brain before the squirrel comes looking for it again.

-- Red Seas Under Red Skies, Scott Lynch

Comments

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I am sorry for your cold and rainy. Would gladly swap you our hot and muggy sun.

[incandescens]

The sun has actually come out this morning, though it's still cool. Would gladly share it if I could.

[archangelbeth]

Good luck with the quilt part... We're alternating some nice weather with a touch-hot, so far...

[incandescens]

But will it be snowing again by the time that I visit? :)

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

Yes, I will happily swap you some hot-humid for some of that cold-wet. It was upper 90's yesterday with about 90% humidity. Just brutal. It was rather funny watching all the Republicans down in Tampa at the convention - it was even more hot and humid down there, and they were all sweating up a storm, every time they were interviewed. ^__^

Enjoy the quilt show!

[incandescens]

I did enjoy the show, thank you! And the weather actually turned quite nice by the end of the day, and was cool but sunny, so I really can't complain. ;)