w.atching the w.orld unw.ind

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"I wonder what we'll play for you tonight
Something heavy or something light
Something to set your soul alight
I wonder how we'll answer when you say
"We don't like you - go away,
"Come back when you've learnt to play."

The Adverts: "One Chord Wonders"
From the album: "Crossing the Red Sea"

Not sure if there is such a word, but that's how it feels this morning, having arrived at the office with soaking-wet trouser bottoms which will flap coldly around my ankles until they eventually dry out.

Not that it's any consolation, but judging from the OB presenters on the various news items this morning, the wet stuff is UK-wide?

Hey Ho, enjoy your weekends, y'all

Labels: Climatology

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"Come down off your throne and leave your body alone.
Somebody must change.
You are the reason I've been waiting so long.
Somebody holds the key."

Eric Clapton/Steve Winwood: "Can't find my way home"
From the album: "Backtrackin'"

Grey. It's just grey out there.

It should be either bright, cold blue skies or white.

But it's just grey.

Labels: Climatology

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"I don't mind about people's fears
Authority no longer hears
Send a social engineer
And I don't mind at all."

Bob Geldof: "The Great Song of Indifference"
From the album: "The Vegetarians of Love"

Apparently - weather-wise - there's a sky full of skunksh1t headed our way this weekend.

A good excuse to open a(nother) bottle of red and feet up?

Enjoy yours, y'all..

Labels: Climatology

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"Close your legs, open your mind
Leave those compliments well behind
Dig a little deeper into yourself
And you may find..

Come over here just sit right down
Needn't comb your hair, needn't pout or frown
I hear you've turned our young men
Into dribbling clowns."

The Beautiful South: "36D"
From the album: "Carry on up the charts"

Against some bright sunshine, there are some really heavy clouds building out there.

There's gonna be some spectacular precipitation, I reckon...

Labels: Climatology

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"Over the nights and through the fires, we went surging down the wires
Through the towns and on the highways
Through the storms in all their thundering
In the blue August moon
In the cool August moon."

Brian Eno: "St. Elmo's Fire"
From the album: "Another green world"

Number One Son returns home from a few days in Kernowland tomorrow.

We are expecting resemblance to a drown'ed rat..

Labels: Climatology

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"Summertime withers as the sun descends
He wants to kiss you. Will you condescend?
Before you wake and find a chill within your bones
Under a fine canopy of lover's dust and humorous bones."

Elvis Costello: "The birds will still be singing"

From the album: "The Juliet Letters"

Watched an interesting programme on C5 last night, which posited the impact on the UK's eastern coast of a nightmare North Sea storm, coinciding on its arrival with the peak of a Spring high tide.

Goodbye (again) Canvey Island.

But also goodbye Thames Barrier (been on that), the Underground and Canary Wharf, so the capitol's main transport system, financial centre - and global confidence in London as a trading centre - washed away in hours.

Selfishly, I hope never to live through such an event occurring, but professionally, I was staggered at the easy destruction of millions of lives and homes and businesses.

In some ways it brought home the devastation of the Indonesian tsunami even more graphically, because you could actually relate to such an event, rather than reacting to the two-dimensional images of catastrophe depicted on tv which, though obviously shocking and distressing in their own right, were sometimes too 'remote' to have the full impact which such a disaster merited.

Labels: Climatology, Observation

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"I hate the army an' I hate the R.A.F.
I don't wanna go fighting in the tropical heat
I hate the Civil Service rules
And I won't open letter bombs for you."

The Clash: "Career opportunities"
From the album: "The Clash"

The Army had to fire
'Cos he got higher and higher.
So a short, sharp, shocking spell in the Army would sort out the hooded druggies, eh?

Now either they've already been inducted (result for society, bad news for this once-proud nation) or the Recruiting Office is just setting out its stall to entice them off the streets?

Meteorological Capitol Update:
Slight sleet. Sleeight?

Labels: Climatology, Wryness

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"Along winding streets, we walked hand in hand
And how I long for that sharp wind to take my breath away
I'd run my fingers through your hair - hair like a wheatfield,
I'd run through
That I'd run through -

And I miss you so
I miss you so
Now you're gone, I feel so alone
I miss you so."

Paul Weller: "Sunflower"
From the album: "Wild wood"

Beautiful, clear, pale blue Mediterranean sky over the capitol this morning.

Shame it's so feckin' cold...

Labels: Climatology