Blue Saturday

Bit of my fence has blown down, that's fun

I am in Corbynland, we are sheltered from storms by our preening self-righteousness.

Blew Sunday

It’s taken me from 11.15am to get from Bath to the outskirts of London, and I’m still approaching Paddington now. But the unusual weather, Blitz spirit and trusting to fate nature of the journey have been quite entertaining in their way.

LOL, the storm has definitely reached Islington.

xp ironic that it's slowed you down heading east, apparently a passenger jet broke the subsonic transatlantic record today thanks to the storm

I was hoping it would reach France in time to cancel the Six Nations match so I could sit in the pub quietly without the advertised big screen blaring and tossers in rugby shirts elbowing me at the bar - match went ahead but it did stop anyone else turning up except one other couple who also weren't watching, so the sound was thankfully on mute and no injuries were sustained

(apologies to those of you who actually enjoy that stuff)

some hefty lower branches of the tree out front have come down, hope the council won't take this as an excuse to cut the whole thing down, they already cut down a row of mature trees opposite

Fence tipped over here too, and the recycling bins with it. One for the Real England thread? Or so I like to picture it.

those Hebden Bridge pics/vids from today are grim watching. Glad I live on top of a huge mountain, well sort of a hill but locals call it a mountain.

^^ Calder Valley suffers every single time. It was really bad in Mytholmroyd, too.

In Todmorden they were using ww2 air raid sirens as a flood warning!

I need to change the litter trays and I am not looking forward to it!

I love that this is turning into the de facto Storm Ciara thread

its pronounced ciara

apparently extensive draining of grouse moors so toffs can go shooting is one of the factors that has worsened Calder Valley flooding. Maybe because Hebden Bridge is such a bohemian mecca for gays, eccentrics and lefties this is another front on the culture/class wars battlefield!

In Todmorden they were using ww2 air raid sirens as a flood warning!

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In H B as well iirc. I never had to hear them when I lived there, thankfully. Well and also, like you, living up on a hill helps a lot.

xp lol

Wind has died down here but still a bit rainy - waiting to see before I go out and try to avoid getting cat litter blown everywhere.

i was gonna say before Hebden Bridge is like the Portland of England, maybe the flood water is being deliberately targeted

Hebden Bridge's reputation as incredible edible hippy nirvana is way bigger than what it's actually like there tbf (though the chai latte places do their part to amplify the stereotype). It's a good sell I suppose. Still don't wish them people any harm though. Well not most of them anyway.

oh i don't wish them harm, i was thinking of the ill intent of local landowners/county councillors

Oh I see, yeah. I've not been keeping close track on if the millions that were promised this to counter this were paid out, and what they did with it.

I went out in the worst yesterday, and was rewarded by one of the few people in Homebase being the LOTO - unsurprisingly he's got a good line in waterproofs, not clear whether it includes the cap.

it is easy to laugh at people in waterproofs but it sure beats the hell out of getting drenched!

I could imagine him having very good advice on the best affordable brands of outdoor gear.

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article6921467.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Labour-party-leader-Jeremy-Corbyn.jpg please say he was wearing something like this

No, but there was a respectable amount of red!

Red Sunday

green monday

apparently so

Grey grey grey.

after the weekend storm updates itt I hope someone will have some snow to report

just refreshing https://uksnowmap.com/ repeatedly, I am bored and require fluffy white things to look at

Kinda looks like Corbz has pissed himself there, poor auld fella.

all I want is legal soma, is that so much to ask?

Sorry, wrong thread (wouldn’t joke about this behind your back to your face, so to speak):


The new government will have your back on that

In which case I welcome our alpha overlords

Lately I'm forgotten here
Isolated, feeling queer
When you were looking in the mirror
Did you see the future's lies
They march right on in time
And straight into the pool
Oh so quick and cool

I want to die. I don't want to die.

Don’t die, you’ll miss awful people dying.

The wanting to die gets its bluff called when my DTs convince me my heart or brain are stopping. But my life is a wreck and I'd be one of the awful people so on the whole Canada is a land of contrasts.

Thanatos & Eros 4 eva and eva

You really think you compare to Kissinger or Blair or Murdoch? Come on, you know you’re not awful.

Every day is like traipsing around some endless shitty golf course in the rain, hole after fucking hole, doesn't matter if you play well or badly there's always another dismal grey fairway stretching out in front of you. Whole game is run by people you hate, the clubhouse is a nightmare but you never manage to reach it anyway. Is that your new BMW in the car park? asked no-one of you ever. you have no idea why you're here but you're either too stubborn or vain to quit, even though you're completely uninterested in the sport and you're fucking rubbish at it anyway. Lie down in a bunker, press your face into that cold wet sand, feels so real, so inarguable, and yet it may as well be on another planet to that other nauseating reality of the thoughts and feelings burgeoning inside you like some hot and troublesome bowelful of shit. I regret typing this stupid nonsense already, cos all I really wanted to say really is that I hear you. Solidarity nv!

If only Camus was a golfer 😊

I guess really awful people murder others, I just disappoint them. Counselling tomorrow thank fuck. Nearly forgot cos I'm not sure what day it is.

Just had a vivid flashback to being a teenager and the claustrophobia crossed with vertigo nearly finished me off.

I hear you too NV, existence is terrible but we have to carry on together, if only to spite those who hate us

everyone otm <3

welp it's that day

that’s right babey it’s the 36th anniversary of the day pierre trudeau announced his retirement as liberal party leader and prime minister of canada

pouring one several out

it's not me, it's me