On a summer holiday. And it's been snowing today. Temperature at noon? 4 celsius. Apparently this is not normal - but normal weather is becoming quite hard to find nowadays. Not that we have sat around bemoaning our lot. Oh no. We had a Big Adventure with the hire car, involving a mysteriously locked boot, a hitherto unnoticed rubber button which had locked the boot while unlocking the rear windscreen - bet you never thought of that - and a phone call to the redoubtable Semple of Inveraray to find out what to do. (Remember - we are in Austria.) Apart from that we went swimming (indoors) and had a brisk walk up the hill behind the house, where I took the photo with the snowy mountains in the background. And Martin has just won at cards. Again. A misspent youth, I fear. And I don't think there will be any meteorological miracles tomorrow. Ah well.
"Blether - n. foolish chatter. - v.intr. chatter foolishly [ME blather, f. ON blathra talk nonsense f. blathr nonsense]" - Concise Oxford Dictionary.
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
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On a summer holiday. And it's been snowing today. Temperature at noon? 4 celsius. Apparently this is not normal - but normal weather is becoming quite hard to find nowadays. Not that we have sat around bemoaning our lot. Oh no. We had a Big Adventure with the hire car, involving a mysteriously locked boot, a hitherto unnoticed rubber button which had locked the boot while unlocking the rear windscreen - bet you never thought of that - and a phone call to the redoubtable Semple of Inveraray to find out what to do. (Remember - we are in Austria.) Apart from that we went swimming (indoors) and had a brisk walk up the hill behind the house, where I took the photo with the snowy mountains in the background. And Martin has just won at cards. Again. A misspent youth, I fear. And I don't think there will be any meteorological miracles tomorrow. Ah well.
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Snow sounds fun! It's warm here but not particularly sunny. What card games have you let Martin beat you at?
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