Is it shining? No, it's not
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incandescensWork was quiet but busy today -- that is, not too noisy, but full of work. Looks (touch wood) as if we've made the crossmapping deadline, which is excellent.
Have put in a request for a week off in mid-late August, and for the end of October/beginning of November for the American holiday. Must investigate plane tickets tomorrow.
14.5K/25K done. Must try to buck up my ideas.
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A Song of the Weather
January brings the snow
Makes your feet and fingers glow
February's ice and sleet
Freeze the toes right off your feet
Welcome March with wintry wind
Would thou wer't not so unkind
April brings the sweet spring showers
On and on for hours and hours
Farmers fear unkindly May
Frost by night and hail by day
June just rains and never stops
Thirty days and spoils the crops
In July the sun is hot
Is it shining? No, it's not
August cold, and dank, and wet
Brings more rain than any yet
Bleak September's mist and mud
Is enough to chill the blood
Then October adds a gale
Wind and slush and rain and hail
Dark November brings the fog
Should not do it to a dog
Freezing wet December then:
Bloody January again!
(January brings the snow
Makes your feet and fingers glow).
-- Michael Flanders
Have put in a request for a week off in mid-late August, and for the end of October/beginning of November for the American holiday. Must investigate plane tickets tomorrow.
14.5K/25K done. Must try to buck up my ideas.
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A Song of the Weather
January brings the snow
Makes your feet and fingers glow
February's ice and sleet
Freeze the toes right off your feet
Welcome March with wintry wind
Would thou wer't not so unkind
April brings the sweet spring showers
On and on for hours and hours
Farmers fear unkindly May
Frost by night and hail by day
June just rains and never stops
Thirty days and spoils the crops
In July the sun is hot
Is it shining? No, it's not
August cold, and dank, and wet
Brings more rain than any yet
Bleak September's mist and mud
Is enough to chill the blood
Then October adds a gale
Wind and slush and rain and hail
Dark November brings the fog
Should not do it to a dog
Freezing wet December then:
Bloody January again!
(January brings the snow
Makes your feet and fingers glow).
-- Michael Flanders
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Date: 2007-07-14 08:40 am (UTC)That poem is the best description of British weather I have ever heard. *beams*
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Date: 2007-07-14 09:41 pm (UTC)And the poem's by Flanders of "Flanders & Swann" fame, if you know them?
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Date: 2007-07-16 10:14 am (UTC)Take pictures!I don't, ackcherly. Are they a Gilbert & Sullivan sort of thing?
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Date: 2007-07-16 01:39 pm (UTC)She was young, she was pure, she was new, she was nice
She was fair, she was sweet seventeen
He was old, he was vile, and no stranger to vice
He was base, he was bad, he was mean
He had slyly inveigled her up to his flat
To view his collection of stamps
And he said as he hastened to put out the cat
The wine, his cigar and the lamps . . .
http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/havesome.htm