Well as I sit typing away
in the security of my little office (well sort of office) the wild winds are
now blowing overhead as the second named storm of the year has arrived. It is
something of a novelty in Britain
to have named storms because in general we don’t get anything bad enough to be
worth naming. But I think the National Weather Centre (the Met Office as in
Metrological) in a cunning bid to keep their hands on the BBC weather forecast
franchise have decided folk like names. And that is indeed true we all like a
storm with a cute name, the first one was last week and was called Abigail and
now we have Barney, which implies an alphabetical theme going on I suspect. As
far as I can tell from here, Barney is blowing harder than Abigail was so I am hoping
to see Barney Blow a stone wall over so I can point and say . . . . . Look it’s
a pile of Barney Rubble . . . HAH AHAh ah ah a hah ah ahaha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha . . . . . . Sadly we do not have any flint stone walls in this
part of the world which would make that even better.
The other thing I noticed
is that they say there is a small chance of power cuts which means typing away on a device that needs power is like a game of Russian roulette for writers. I
was planning on saying failed writers but actually I write loads of stuff it is
just that no one actually reads much of it, that is not quite the same thing as
being someone who has written stuff read by loads of folk but who no longer
writes stuff. A bit like that Shakespeare chap, although to be fair he has
quite a good reason for no longer writing much. I mean I would be disheartened
if a load of monkeys turned up and we able to write you entire works without
ever reading it in the first place, Its
like that chicken and egg problem . . . . . Which can first the Monkey or
Shakespeare. . . . Well plainly in that case it’s the monkeys which can only
mean Shakespeare copied the complete works of the monkeys
OOOOoooooo I have just
lost a paragraph due to a power cut, see I was not kidding it is getting windy
out there. So it might well be time to run off and hide for a while . . . .
. OK then chaps head for the fortified
bunker, make sure your heads are wrapped in kitchen foil and you have your
trusty pointy stick and inflatable Hedgehog (sorry life raft).
I have Just had to go out to save one of the Robots and all I can say is BLOODY HELL. . .
Good Luck Mr H I hope all is well with you
OK that's it powering down and running away. . . .
OK that's it powering down and running away. . . .
Well that was a night with some bouncy winds in it but I'm still here and all is well. I think a few trees came down not too far away, but nothing was damaged around us.
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