Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 06, 2017

Dreich weather and a sonnet: Argyll Weather

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I haven't written a sonnet for 37 years. At that time, I thought I might be halfway through my allotted life span and wrote my first att...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

A kind of madness ...

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It's a sort of madness, I suppose. This need to be out of doors, preferably away from streets and cars and - if I'm honest - other...
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Saturday, June 21, 2014

Cloudy morning

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I started writing this before the current spell of dry weather, when I was longing for it to look and feel like summer. As the solstice is r...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Stormy anticipation

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It's more or less dark now, this Christmas Eve, and I can no longer see the waves crashing over the pavement of the East Bay in Dunoon...
Saturday, May 19, 2012

Grey May thoughts

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The weather remains thoroughly and dispiritingly wintry - for winter in these maritime parts is just like this: raw winds, smirring rain wit...
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Back to the stone age?

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Photo: Campbell Bryson I'm indebted to (brave/foolhardy/dedicated) local photographer Campbell Bryson for the photo that  I'm too...
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Friday, February 25, 2011

Out of the dark ...

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It's amazing how a sudden change in the weather can make such a difference to life. Perhaps I should qualify that. When I lived in the ...
Thursday, February 03, 2011

Wild things

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This wild and wooly day happened to coincide with a fairly long-standing arrangement to visit Edinburgh, so having chipped the ice from the ...
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Thursday, July 08, 2010

Offspring of a poem

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The poem that grew out of writing the previous one is now here on frankenstina.
Thursday, June 04, 2009

Cool!

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It certainly is a distant land, this Eastern realm. We left Dunoon yesterday in 21º of warmth, and two hours later the car said 13º in the s...
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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Take action

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This jolly little map indicates that we're having interesting weather. In fact, the red - which the astute will notice extends over the ...
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Friday, January 16, 2009

Evensong

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T he gloom has descended again. The rain has returned, and the wind is already driving the sea over the prom in great white flourishes. Acco...
Saturday, January 10, 2009

Sic transit dies ...

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I'm glad today has darkened into evening - it's barely been more than crepuscular all day and after the fun of watching the waves dr...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Compost and survive?

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I was thinking about recycling this morning. How it has changed our lives! The government have just produced green guidelines, and I was re...
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Friday, June 15, 2007

Purging dead blogs

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The sharp-eyed will notice I've at last got round to updating my blogroll. There are other blogs I read sporadically, but at least I...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Sun!

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Look! "They" were right - it is a beautiful day. The sun is shining and there is no wind. Everyone is walking about with sapsy sm...
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Monday, January 15, 2007

A landmark

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I notice from my stats that blethers is within 50 visits of its ten thousandth visitor. It'd be pleasing if this landmark could be reach...
Saturday, January 13, 2007

Salt sea foam

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The stygian gloom and the gales are still with us, and the sea looks nothing like the pic I posted yesterday. Rather, it is a grey, turbulen...
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