Weather 2008

[Martin Baxendale]

Martin, the trouble is not with swimming in the rain it is getting changed under the weather.
Paddy

If I have time, Paddy,  I'll have to draw a quick cartoon of you running to the beach with just swimming trunks on under your mac, closely followed by the local constabulary.

[Martin Baxendale]

Martin,

You're only a young fellow. We celebrated our 29th wedding anniversary last Saturday.

Enjoy the casserole.

Paddy

Second marriage, Paddy 

[Paddy Tobin]

Ah, another victory for optimism over experience.

(Just joking!)

Paddy

[Maggi Young]

Paddy, fond best wishes to you and to Mary for your anniversary 

Suggest you send recipes to Ian... he is doing lots of cooking lately....it's the celebrity chef syndrome I think 

[Martin Baxendale]

Maggi, how's the labyrinthitis? Any better? I was tempted when Ian first posted about it to say that I hoped you'd find your way out soon,  but thought you might not appreciate jokes about it at that point. Assuming you're now feeling better, I've reverted to my usual insensitivity.

[Lesley Cox]

Paddy I'm sure your cookery skills are waisted(!) in Ireland. How about a visit down under, before we waste away.

Martin, 68 corydalis seedlings up so far.

[SueG]

Paddy, I have had a bowl of rice krispies for my supper.... I do not appreciate your tales of gastronomic goodies at this time.... at the very least, send me the leftovers! Not that I suppose there are any of those.... tsk! 

Maggie
what with rice crispies and the weetabix, I'm organising a (real) food parcel as I type to prove there is more to life on a very wet day than breakfast cereals
Sue

[David Nicholson]

10th day of August and we have had rain on 9 of them.

Correction: 11th of August and rain on 10!

UPDATE:

12th and 11. Who was this St Swithen guy?

[annew]

Over the last few days I've progressed from my 'welly shoes', to proper wellies and with the monsoon continuing outside I'm thinking of breaking out the waders.

[annew]

Mind you, it does save me having to water things. 

[Paul T]

Anne,

By the sound of it you should start planning a boat purchase.  We could do with a bit of a flood here to refill some dams and groundwater.  At least there is no danger of my place ever flooding from river overflow or anything like that.... it'd have to be flooding of biblical proportions, and most of the city would be underwater before I was. 

Good luck with it not getting TOO waterlogged.

[Martin Baxendale]

Martin, 68 corydalis seedlings up so far.

A testament to your skill as a seed raiser, Lesley! I struggle to raise them from seed in pots and do better sowing them in the garden. Anyway, glad they're germinating okay.   

[Maggi Young]

Sue, you have a heart of gold, dear.......much more of this and I will be a shadow of my former self. Well, no, not really, that would takes months of starvation.....

Martin, thank you for your usual kind wishes ........ when I told someone at the BBC what had been ailing me, he thought it was "one of my jokes"   
I am able to see the funny side of things again now, though still seeing quite a lot of things from very funny sides indeed.... nausea has gone so only slightly dizzy now and I'm getting used to that.
Much more of this and I will be admirably suited to life on the ocean wave 

[Martin Baxendale]

Martin, thank you for your usual kind wishes 

Maggi, sorry to hear you're still not 100%, and apologies for the rubbish joke - I get a little stir-crazy when I'm here on my own for a month with no-one to talk to but the cat (who knows nothing about current affairs, by the way, and only wants to gossip about what's happening in the bloody awful Big Brother House). Hope it clears up soon.

[Maggi Young]

Martin, it is rubbish jokes that keep me going, I assure you.... they're usually the best kind... especially if they are bad enough to warrant a chocolate fine

Sorry to hear cat is such a duff conversationalist.....one down the road witters on about the price of fish all the time