WELL it was only a matter of time before I started talking about the weather wasn’t it? After all I am British!
As I write this, I’m watching our neighbour leave their house (accompanied by their ever flashing security light that seems to think it’s a strobe and is currently working in time to the beat of Mambo No. 5). He is bedecked in something that might have been appropriate for some sort of Alaskan extreme fishing escapade, but I think he might just be popping to the chippy!
Our neighbours are great! They camp, they ski, their teenage sons do Duke of Edinburgh awards and I think may still be scouts, let’s just say, they are always prepared. I however am not.
When Erin is with me, she will always be appropriately attired for the weather conditions, but I have often been known to head out in snow with just a chunky knit cardigan and a token scarf, or been out in the middle of summer in my knee-high boots and (probably the same) chunky knit cardigan!
This evening for example, when we leave the house, I am pretty certain I will not be dressed for extreme rain and wind, and I know I’m just jumping in and out of a car, but still I should probably be dressed for that ‘car breaks down on a busy road’ scenario, or even the ‘can’t park close enough to the restaurant’ situation!
To be fair, when we’re doing work on the house I become Met Office material I monitor the weather so closely, even taking head of those old wives’ tales about the ‘red sky at night’.
But in normal day-to-day life I don’t pay much attention to it, which is probably why I looked as surprised as Erin the other day when we got out the car at nursery and it was snowing buckets (for about 10 minutes, but still it definitely was!)
Despite my reasonable indifference, you can guarantee when I’m in a taxi, or at the tram stop next to someone, or with someone I don’t know very well and I’m just looking for conversation, the first thing I’ll say will be something along the lines of: “Ooh isn’t it cold today?” or the classic “the weather doesn’t know what it wants to do does it?”..what sort of inane drivel is that?! But we all do it! Well at least I hope we do, otherwise I’m just the strange woman on the bus who talks to people randomly about the weather.
Anyway I’m off to brave the tornado outside, “eee it looks right windy out there!”
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