Category Archives: weather

Water Time To Be Alive

Posted on November 1, 2022 by S

This is your November Is Happening Now warning. Be careful out there. People will burn things and send explodey, colourful missiles into the sky. Men will grow moustaches. Warmth will stop visiting as often as it did in October. Shops … Continue reading →

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The Name Game

Posted on October 1, 2022 by S

In an unavoidable example of nominative determinism Trevor Noah is to step down from hosting The Daily Show to spend the rest of his earthly days building (and presumably then sailing) an ark. Apparently his only other career choice was … Continue reading →

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You Must Fall

Posted on September 24, 2022 by S

Autumn is happening now. The guardians of the seasons kicked down Autumn’s front door, shouted it awake and dragged it reluctantly out to start doing its job of making people with respiratory diseases, like me, miserable because all too soon … Continue reading →

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We Had Joy, We Had Fun, We Had Tottenham On The Run…

Posted on September 1, 2022 by S

Oh oh, there’s a September happening. Which also means oh oh, there’s an autumn lurking. And what does autumn mean? Prizes. No, not prizes, less warmy sun niceness and more stinky old cold. And if you live with a respiratory … Continue reading →

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Like A New Emotion

Posted on August 15, 2022 by S

Hey, what’s all this dribbly wet coming from above? Rain? I think I remember rain. Yes, there was a time, before the scorched Earth policy of scorching the Earth so that they can grow olives in Glasgow, when dribbly wet … Continue reading →

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Modern Times

Posted on July 27, 2022 by S

Such times we’re living in. The England Women’s football team are through to the final of the European Championships after beating 4-0 last night, the pick of the goals being an audacious back heel from a 23 year old substitute … Continue reading →

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Tweet, Tweet My Lovely

Posted on July 25, 2022 by S

Bird noises! Bird noises are happening in the outside at half of the fives in this morning. Bird noises, I tells you. Whoever Dawn is, her chorus has been pretty darn loud this morning. I don’t remember such loud bird … Continue reading →

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Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot

Posted on July 18, 2022 by S

Martha Reeves warned us about this in the sixties, her and her Vandellas being so keyed in to climate issues that their song Heat Wave was the first to tell us we would all eventually burn to a crisp because … Continue reading →

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I Mean It Must Be High Or Low

Posted on June 29, 2022 by S

“If you can remember it you weren’t there.” That’s what they say about the Great Gumboot Sale of 1873, which never actually happened because it’s yet another piece of bullshit history I’ve just invented. But they did also say that … Continue reading →

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Tutti Frutti

Posted on June 23, 2022 by S

After a covid-enforced three year delay, Britain’s biggest and bestest outdoorsy event kicks off today. Gladstone’s Berry Festival has been going for more than fifty years now yet we Brittos never tire of dressing up like a Victorian prime minister … Continue reading →

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