miserable pissy rain

http://brightcove.vo.llnwd.net/d8/unsecured/media/47628790001/47628790001_60668723001_5099922767950-01-001-still.jpg?pubId=47628790001

http://i2.listal.com/image/1665959/600full-blade-runner-screenshot.jpg

(basically I love torrential rain in a big city, because I can pretend that I'm an extra in Blade Runner)

I'll bet you walk around with your neon umbrella don't you

It's back (after various alarms and excursions in the UK media about an alleged drought).

Just came back in from a walk outside during a brief let up in the rain.

Basically it's going to rain continously throughout Christmas, and you're going to be stuck. inside. with. your. family. for. days. UUURGHRGHH.

hoping it rains so much between now and tomorrow that the entire railway line between london and the sticks collapses and i am unable to get home at all

Train passengers have been urged not to travel in parts of south-west England due to problems caused by heavy rain.

not to travel further west than Taunton

BOLLOCKS not far enough

Fucking slashing it down in Manchester, and has been all day. Made a trip to the recycling centre with a carload of old skirting boards and bags of hardened plaster/rubble a real treat, I can tell you.

yeah I'm near Manchester (warrington) and been raining all day. I don't mind it too much, it's very warm right now though so might go for a walk in the drizzle.

This must be the wettest year ever

Er, Bob, do you work for the Daily Mail? We were in a drought until it starting raining lots. Funny that.

We were in a potential water collection and distribution problem.

Achieving a 'drought' in the water-logged British Isles is basically a plea for incompetency and long-term under-investment by the water infrastructure bodies.

Jesus Christ will this ever end? I can't remember a time when it wasn't raining. Got to go further south west tomorrow...

I think you answered my question Bob. But you are right it's not a "drought" by other countries definitions.

My solution? Just use less water. I can't believe how wasteful some people, and by extension I’m sure Industry, can be.

Put a brick in your toilet.

I do that every sunday morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MicuK_tgXqg

It was drier in Newcastle!

Thanks to miserable pissy rain since yesterday, J. gets 3 days off!

Cold pissy rain falling on the snow still on the ground as the blackbirds take over my yard.

i know it's winter, but this weather has got to fucking go.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/31/wettest-year-ends-with-downpours

2012 can fuck right off

What gets to me isn't the rain, but how dark it is in the mornings when it rains like this, even at 10 o'clock.

Wettest December and January ever...

Warmest too?

yeah in london there has been only one day this winter that didn't reach 5c by my recollection

so long as you didn't have a tree fall on your house/car and you don't live right next to a river it's not been a bad winter

It's been bloody cold out here in the sticks. Only a few days with actual ice, but the combo of wind and rain has been very unpleasant.

so long as you didn't have a tree fall on your house/car and you don't live right next to a river it's not been a bad winter

Depends what you're looking for really. As a cyclist, I could really do without the endless rain and gale force winds. I'd happily take temperatures 3 degrees lower if it meant blue skies and no wind.

swings and roundabouts huh

admittedly im not into outdoorsy type shit but there hasnt been a total lack of sunlight, in between the rainshowers

its not been constant rain, just that when it has rained it has rained really fucking heavily

it's yet another freakish winter though, like last year's which went on until april, another sense that the climate is going to shit and thank fuck i dont own a house on the somerset levels

April 2012-April 2013 was the most miserable year's worth of weather imaginable. The last couple of months or so have been pretty shit (obviously worse down in the south-west), but I haven't given up hope that it's going to get better. One day.

the climate change predictions for northwest europe dont seem that consistent, some suggesting cooler some suggesting that it will just be like taking 5 degrees of latitude away so we get warmish weather while spain turns into algeria

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72975000/jpg/_72975037_021079372-1.jpg

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72965000/jpg/_72965159_021072732-1.jpg

apparently those earthbanks didn't stop the water getting in:

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2014/02/even-this-mans-10k-fortress-cant-defend-his-home-from-flooding/

in the comments there (suicideneil) there are some pictures of people in america doing the same thing

'i come from a rain planet'

'did you like it there?'

'we didn't know any better'

Bank Holiday: workers' playday washout in London.

Play inside.

Aargh

soggy

Aargh, again.....I'm impatient for Spring to start properly here in London.

soggy again

first cricket match of the season today, so of course

so many Bank Holiday options

I've gone back to 'pretending I'm an extra in Blade Runner' mode.

(x-post)

Good to put a few moments aside to celebrate the dignity of labour on International Workers Day

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa175/Inoljt/taiwan-may-1-international-workers-day-demonstrations-protests-08-600x400.jpg

she looks like how i feel about going to the shops right now