How was your day? (Random off topic chat)

A good Welsh Storm, something I strangely miss now I live in London but didn’t care for much when I lived on a mountainside in Snowdonia.

The feeling that the roof is about to blow off and the noise of the rain against the window are now a fond memory.

Why can I never make it to half term without the little snot buckets giving me their bubbling lurgies? Actually, to be strictly truthful, this time they've taken something instead - my voice. 

Mr Tibs is clearly delighted. Waggy Tibs not responding too well to sign language.

There was a cow incident today?

Was walking through a field with 4 other people and a dog on a lead, there were I don't know maybe 20 young bullocks at the end of the field which we had permission to walk through from the farmer. The cows were maybe 50-60 yards away and watching us cross towards but not directly at them in a vaguely interested way and i'm thinking what beautiful marking some of them have. So far so good. Few cows start to mooch down the field, cows being cows they follow each other. Cows start to run in a circling pattern towards us. There's that moment of thinking 'oh crap'. Cows turn away from us. Hurrah. A few of the cows suddenly start leaping about in what I think of as cows in a thunder storm fashion (past incident where cows and a thunderstorm resulted in my mum suddenly finding she could run faster than she thought). Few cows experiment with 4 feet off ground leaping. Not bad for a cow. Lead cow decides in defiance of logic to jump into fence and keep going, few other cows think this is good larks follow suit and fence collapse, rest of cows follow and last seen heading round race track. We stand then in some bemusement as to what happened in a few seconds and making 'oh s**t' type responses.


In case of concerns, farmer was informed, cows were all fine.


Lessons learnt. One, next time I come across cows I might not think they slightly scare me so I should not turn round but should walk quietly past because it's good to test yourself. And two I think despite what my mother says cows can't 'identify country people from the colour of their wellies and will not chase them (allowing for caveat of thunderstorms'

Retracting my previous post about Welsh Storms, maybe we haven’t got the high winds but the rainfall today is definitely reminiscent.

At least I will be able to experience the Theatre equivalent of standing on a Welsh mountainside in the rain, a groundling on the last performance of the Globe summer season.

No such thing as bad weather only inappropriate clothing, full waterproofs it is then, Goretex walking shoes will have to substitute for wellies and I have managed to remember where I stored my waterproof trousers.

I've stayed up that way and I've seen plenty of good weather. Some days it didn't rain for several hours and it was even possible to walk into the wind.

I used to live on Anglesey where we were blessed with entirely different weather from the mainland - I’d to stand in my garden in the sunshine watching the rain sweep across the distant mountains on the other side of the Strait (if I could even see them, that is)!

I am an American who currently lives in the U.K. due too work. In the post today I got my mail-in ballot in vote in the America midterms so I'll be working on that for the rest of the day/tomorrow. Hopefully it will get back to my home precinct by November 6th so it can be counted.

If there's a more boring, tedious, bum-numbing film around than the acclaimed First Man, I sure don't want to see it. Though nothing is likely - thank goodness - to match Round Midnight in that respect.

My frail 91 year old father broke his hip a couple of months ago. He was lucky that it broke where they could fix it by hip replacement. He still uses a walker but he should have been using one all along. It took him quite awhile to get all the meds out of his system but he is so much better now. And with the walker he gets around better than he did before the fall.

Best of luck to you and yours.

Thank you sherriebythesea Father-in-law really should have been using at least a walking stick but wouldn't - he even refused to have an ambulance called but the guy who ran to help when M-i-L couldn't pick him up insisted. Still awaiting news, but it's kind of you to share your father's experience.

Go home. You have a chest infection, you need to rest up - plus you'll give it to your co-workers. And you can't do any work without a computer anyway.