When in Rome (or Britain)....
I know I've been here too long. I almost constantly and enthusiastically talk about
'The Weather'.
It's fantastic! You don't have to discuss your feelings or talk about anything relevant to your job, and can avoid all confrontation by immediately switching to what the weather is doing.
This is particularly good for Scotland, where the best piece of advice (given to me by an Irishwoman!, nice one Liz) was "If you don't like the weather in Scotland, wait 5 mins".
My how true. You get 'proper' weather in this part of the globe. So it may only hang about for 5 mins, but hell, it's a spectacular 5 mins. So I guess this will be a regular feature of this blog.
So, it's Autumn in north-east Scotland. Today was grey, but 'close'. Close is a great word the Scots use to describe the sticky/muggy/humidity of the air. It's fab. (Talking about language must also wait for another blog). So 'close' like your t-shirt will stick to you, that slightly clammy feeling. Yesterday however, was an absolute stunner, one out of the box, bright blue autumnal skies with the golden hues of the trees reflected by the honey sun. I stared out the window yesterday for about 20mins, just watching the trees literally change colour before my eyes.
a few days last week however, you may has well not have bothered to get out of bed. It was dark and grey, lights on allday type affair, and a steady drizzle of rain pattered down (well, apart from short 5 mins periods of blazing sunshine, but only about 3 of those in the day). Well and truly was a 'drookit' day. Another fab scottish word. The scots are just as good at describing weather as the Irish. I remember when i was in ireland there were at least 11 different words to describe rain, and all forms of it. But that's stereotyping. Must avoid that. I had some great long sunny days in dublin. it rained no more than Auckland. Explains why everything's so green.
Look at that! i'm so proud of myself. A massive long paragraph talking bout the weather.
must away before i get onto other proper things. Daylight savings goes into winter time the end of this month.....1 day before i bugger off to the bright light of South Africa. Ha! suckers.....
'The Weather'.
It's fantastic! You don't have to discuss your feelings or talk about anything relevant to your job, and can avoid all confrontation by immediately switching to what the weather is doing.
This is particularly good for Scotland, where the best piece of advice (given to me by an Irishwoman!, nice one Liz) was "If you don't like the weather in Scotland, wait 5 mins".
My how true. You get 'proper' weather in this part of the globe. So it may only hang about for 5 mins, but hell, it's a spectacular 5 mins. So I guess this will be a regular feature of this blog.
So, it's Autumn in north-east Scotland. Today was grey, but 'close'. Close is a great word the Scots use to describe the sticky/muggy/humidity of the air. It's fab. (Talking about language must also wait for another blog). So 'close' like your t-shirt will stick to you, that slightly clammy feeling. Yesterday however, was an absolute stunner, one out of the box, bright blue autumnal skies with the golden hues of the trees reflected by the honey sun. I stared out the window yesterday for about 20mins, just watching the trees literally change colour before my eyes.
a few days last week however, you may has well not have bothered to get out of bed. It was dark and grey, lights on allday type affair, and a steady drizzle of rain pattered down (well, apart from short 5 mins periods of blazing sunshine, but only about 3 of those in the day). Well and truly was a 'drookit' day. Another fab scottish word. The scots are just as good at describing weather as the Irish. I remember when i was in ireland there were at least 11 different words to describe rain, and all forms of it. But that's stereotyping. Must avoid that. I had some great long sunny days in dublin. it rained no more than Auckland. Explains why everything's so green.
Look at that! i'm so proud of myself. A massive long paragraph talking bout the weather.
must away before i get onto other proper things. Daylight savings goes into winter time the end of this month.....1 day before i bugger off to the bright light of South Africa. Ha! suckers.....
posted by Rosa at 7:05 pm
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