Summer? Wazzat?

edited August 2008 in Chit chat
It's been raining cats and dogs for the better part of the past 5 days in the Netherlands.
Isn't it supposed to be summer by now, rather than autumn? :(
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  • edited July 2008
    mheide wrote: »
    It's been raining cats and dogs for the better part of the past 5 days in the Netherlands.
    Isn't it supposed to be summer by now, rather than autumn? :(

    Join the club. It's been just as shocking here.
  • edited July 2008
    It's in the lower 30s here ... hot and humid ... I'll take half your rain-days and you can have half my sunnybasteffinpoohindays.
  • edited July 2008
    Summer (noun) : That time of year where it rains incessantly for several weeks. Come back Winter, all is forgiven. :)
  • edited July 2008
    I've just found Holland on the map.

    Bugger, I thought that was going to be further south, but it's about on level with Norfolk!

    Now watching the daily, weekly, 10-day and monthly weather forecasts for Amsterdam like a hawk...
  • edited July 2008
    The sky leaked in South West London most of the day :(
    Which made me realise that this dude's house's guttering's blocked and turned the garden into a swimming pool so I'll have to go up there tomorrow after work pending non-sky-pissage.
  • edited July 2008
    When I am dictator of Britain, I am going to put "Operation Flush" into play.

    Everyone in the U.K will flush their lavatory at exactly the same time, and sink Holland, unless a ransom is paid. :D
  • edited July 2008
    thx1138 wrote: »
    When I am dictator of Britain, I am going to put "Operation Flush" into play.

    Everyone in the U.K will flush their lavatory at exactly the same time, and sink Holland, unless a ransom is paid. :D

    That sounds more like extortion than ransoming (right?)
  • edited July 2008
    thx1138 wrote: »
    When I am dictator of Britain, I am going to put "Operation Flush" into play.
    Everyone in the U.K will flush their lavatory at exactly the same time, and sink Holland, unless a ransom is paid. :D
    :D
    But we also need to put a giant fan in the sky for cloud removal and blow it at FRANCE.
  • edited July 2008
    Vertigo wrote: »
    :D
    But we also need to put a giant fan in the sky for cloud removal and blow it at FRANCE.

    Aren't they themselves supposed to be full of hot air, thereby rendering your idea useless?
  • edited July 2008
    Bloody hell, all this talk of weather, WOS is getting as bad as #spin...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • edited July 2008
    Netherlands will change the national anthem, to the Hawaii Five O theme tune soon.
  • edited July 2008
    It rains very heavily around 4pm for an hour every day here. Luckily, sunshine abounds at other times.
    I stole it off a space ship.
  • edited July 2008
    We are gonna have 41 Celsius today in Athens...we will be fried.
    I cannot wait for my vacations..agrrrr
  • edited July 2008
    aowen wrote: »
    Which reminds me, I've seen nicer weather in the south of Australia at this time of year
    I miss Perth :( A couple of months of 'Winter' which is around 8 degrees C if you're really unlucky and some rain. Then 6-7 months of fantastic sun. Bah!
  • edited July 2008
    Apparently it has been sunny here, but since I work nights I've slept through most of it.

    Have seen plenty of rain though.

    Many a thunderstorm round here recently, and looking outside it's going to happen again sometime today.
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited July 2008
    lol, i would pip in and boast, however, it's been raining 'ere in melbourne for a week solid pretty much now!,
    and, 3 degrees outside this morning too, some places have had their coldest night in 13 years!

    there'll be snow on the local hills here this weekend!, rarely happens apparently!
  • edited July 2008
    bleugh wrote: »
    lol, i would pip in and boast, however, it's been raining 'ere in melbourne for a week solid pretty much now!
    :D It always rains in Melbourne. Neighbours always being sunny is a LIE!

    It is sunny, it's just that there are clouds in the way. That's most infuriating thing, know that the sun is actually up there, just this bastard vapour* is clogging up the sky.

    *A vapour that is a bastard, not vapourised bastards, although the effect would probably be similar. Could also be taken to mean a really aggressive fart, where the farter would be accused of being a bastard by anyone within noseshot.
  • edited July 2008
    Vertigo wrote: »
    Could also be taken to mean a really aggressive fart, where the farter would be accused of being a bastard by anyone within noseshot.

    Which is the norm these days
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited July 2008
    I thought it was going to be tons of rain today but so far the huge rainclouds dont seem to have hit the north, Manchesters still okay but expecting a big downpour perhaps later today.

    The weather forecast yesterday had a huge raincloud coming over most of the UK but so far it seems okay, whats it like down south ?
  • edited July 2008
    psj3809 wrote: »
    whats it like down south ?

    Bloody miserable today... hasn't stopped raining round my neck of the woods. My tortoise usually hides away from the rain, but today he's loving it for some reason... just sitting there, soaking it all up!!
  • edited July 2008
    GreenCard wrote: »
    Bloody miserable today... hasn't stopped raining round my neck of the woods. My tortoise usually hides away from the rain, but today he's loving it for some reason... just sitting there, soaking it all up!!

    you talking about your cock?
  • edited July 2008
    mile wrote: »
    you talking about your cock?

    :lol:

    No, you dirty bugger... My tortoise!! Starsky, his name is. Yes, my tortoise!!
  • edited July 2008
    GreenCard wrote: »
    :lol:

    No, you dirty bugger... My tortoise!! Starsky, his name is. Yes, my tortoise!!

    do you take him for walks down the park?
  • edited July 2008
    psj3809 wrote: »
    I thought it was going to be tons of rain today but so far the huge rainclouds dont seem to have hit the north, Manchesters still okay but expecting a big downpour perhaps later today.

    The weather forecast yesterday had a huge raincloud coming over most of the UK but so far it seems okay, whats it like down south ?
    I heard on the news that just for once the weather's heading northwards instead of coming off the Atlantic, so apparently you'll get it all later, the middle of England will float off again, insurance market will crash and we'll carry on sending billions of pounds worth of aid into the pockets of foreign dictators. Fair play :)
  • edited July 2008
    mile wrote: »
    do you take him for walks down the park?

    He he, no... he's perfectly happy trotting (slowly) around my garden.

    Here he is (might have to be logged into Facebook to see it):
    http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3781&id=1066328611
  • edited July 2008
    GreenCard wrote: »
    He he, no... he's perfectly happy trotting (slowly) around my garden.

    watch out for owls, they will swoop down and carry him off for their tea. it happened to my cousin. we haven't seen him since.
  • edited July 2008
    mile wrote: »
    watch out for owls, they will swoop down and carry him off for their tea. it happened to my cousin. we haven't seen him since.

    Foxes are my main worry... Starsky sleeps under the shed, and I've seen scuff-marks in front of it where foxes have tried to get at him. Last night he kipped out on the lawn, so I was worrying about him all night... but I don't like waking him to move him, and usually when you move him, he gets the hump and just goes straight back to where you got him from!! Little blighter!!
  • edited July 2008
    GreenCard wrote: »
    Foxes are my main worry... Starsky sleeps under the shed, and I've seen scuff-marks in front of it where foxes have tried to get at him. Last night he kipped out on the lawn, so I was worrying about him all night... but I don't like waking him to move him, and usually when you move him, he gets the hump and just goes straight back to where you got him from!! Little blighter!!

    can't you glue nails or razor blades to his back, make him into a moblie death machine.

    but yeah leaving him out side all night isn't the best thing i would have thought, a cat could wee on him!!
  • edited July 2008
    Tortoises are cool, my uncle used to have some. Very relaxing just watching those fellas move slowly around munching on some lettuce. Can go quite fast if they need to. Pity they dont do much else though !
  • edited July 2008
    psj3809 wrote: »
    Tortoises are cool, my uncle used to have some. Very relaxing just watching those fellas move slowly around munching on some lettuce. Can go quite fast if they need to. Pity they dont do much else though !

    a bit like grandparents.
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