Friday 25 January 2013

Global Warming, a large muddy hole and a master craftsman


It’s a funny old world; there I was all ready to go off to school and ponder global warming, which is always very hard when you need to be taken to school on the back of a snow plough wearing tennis rackets on your feet and a woolly hat with pointy ears.  We should be contemplating global warming in the summer when it is hot, OK wet and cold . . . . . . . . . I know it’s all very complicated but I am hoping we might just get some of that greenhouse effect on the Welsh English border this year. Anyway as I was saying there I was in my school uniform with tennis rackets on my feet and a woolly hat with pointy ears and a knitted duck on the front when I was suddenly excused school by dad and thrown into the cold wet muddy hole in the garden. It was a bit of a shock, but luckily I found I was not alone as our good friend and master craftsman Chris the Builder was also in the hole. He was very pleased to see me and asked me straight away why have you got tennis rackets attached to your feet, I did try to explain they were snow shoes but I got the impression he thought I was mad. Still as Chris found out snow shoes also make good mud shoes as we pondered the hole and what to do I notice he was getting shorter all the time not ideal when you are already standing in the middle of a muddy hole.

Then after much scratching of heads digging of mud, pointing and shaking out heads for a bit leaning on shovels and a few cups of tea we hatched a plan, we will look at the hole again in a few weeks.

Home 27th May 2012


The result of all this standing and getting wet and cold in a large muddy hole plus the fact that at school I would have been writing my thesis on the environmental side effects of global warming made me wonder about when we last had some decent hot weather. One of the great advantages of writing a daily diary observing the world and my place in it in great detail without elaborating on the truth, is that I can look back and say with certainty what happened when. So I can say that back on the twenty seventh of May we were in the middle of a few days of extreme heat, and I even have photographic evidence and by the 2nd June it started to rain.  One thing that is clear from this is that it should have stopped raining or snowing by now because six to seven moths of it is just not fair. Oddly back on the 27th May I was complaining about the heat and how it was far to hot and by the 3rd June I was complaining about rain and cold and what this proves conclusively is that I am genetically British, Only the British complain about the weather this much regardless of what the weather is………..  

And please note that I think all is sorted with making comments again on the Blog . . . . . .PHEW

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12 comments:

  1. It was a considered a drought back then. We really don't know how to handle weather in this country.

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    1. Yes that is very true, and as I type on the news it appears many are stuck in heavy snow while other are battling floods. I think a heat wave would be much appreciated for a few days

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  2. I think that blogs were given the wrong name. Since they are so much about who, what, where, why, when and how, I think a better speLLing would be 'whogs', with an initial w sound.

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    1. That WHOGS would be a tricky one over here in the UK as it is going to sound like an abusive term used againt Asians, and my black friends would sort of beat me up loads so I think a rethink may be needed. It is interesting because I think there are many words that do not transpose well between countries.

      It is a complicated thing language , full of pitfalls and ways to upset folk by accident. Luckily I avoid this by confusing everyone and adding the word smile and happy from time to time

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    2. Interesting. I guess if the g and s were silent, it would be pronounced "Who" and could be an Abbott & Costello, Whogs Is On First?

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    3. Indeed it could I had forgotten that sketch entirely but then it was a long time ago.

      or HOGS on the Bridge

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTCQBBsid_U

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  3. I popped over from Lily's blog. Nice to meet ya. You gave a great visual with that hat with the pointy ears and the tennis rackets on your feet. I really like your understated sense of humor. Very British. Guess I'm gonna have to sign on as a follower and see what else you'll be coming up with.

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    1. Very kind words I am always pleased to see a new visitor. Miss Lily writes a very classic British witty blog. Mine is a little more on the eccentric confused side but again I would say classic British and being a classic British chap I never mention the sex word . . . . .DAMN I did but it will not be mentioned again.

      Thanks for following.

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    2. Classic British Blog?? The Brits don't seem to think so, most of my stats come from America. But it was still lovely of you to say so.

      Two points to make, 1. June 3rd was my birthday. I was 21, which makes it about the 10th year running. 2. Why pray tell, was Chris the builder in a muddy hole? Which is not really a point but a question. So ignore my points...somehow that seem to come out wrong...

      Glad comments are working again. :)

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    3. Congratulations on being twenty one again Miss Lily I think it has rained since your birthday which is not ideal my birthday is in August and it has, rained since then to.

      The muddy hole is not nice, you see we live in the country and at times in the country things that folk take for granted in town are not always available in an ideal form. There are still houses in the sticks (not many ) who do not have mains power or water or sewage commented or gas. Of these we don't have gas or mains sewage as neither is anywhere near us. But we do have water and electric PHEW. But our sewage is dealt with by an old three chamber part concrete soak-away. These things normally work OK but someone had let a huge willow tree grow three feet away from the last chamber. So it is full of roots, big roots that need to be cut out with a saw. So guess what the muddy hole is . . . . . . . . . .I am being good and not going into detail although there is little we can do until the willow is dealt with correctly, the ground around the soakaway is cleared and the weather improves a bit, there are some things men should not have to stand in . . . . . . . .YUCK

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    4. Oh my! Whoever's job it is to deal with that, isn't being paid enough!!

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    5. I quite agree Miss Lily but it is me . . . . . . . . . .DAMN . . . .NOT FAIR.

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