Another Friday ~ Another Front

There is an old song by Flanders and Swan (a cabaret duet who sang humorous songs back in the sixties over here in the UK) called "A Song of the Weather."

January brings the snow
Makes your feet and fingers glow

February's Ice and sleet
Freeze the toes right off your feet

Welcome March with wintry wind
Would thou wer't not so unkind

April brings the sweet spring showers
On and on for hours and hours

Farmers fear unkindly May
Frost by night and hail by day

June just rains and never stops
Thirty days and spoils the crops

In July the sun is hot
Is it shining? No, it's not

August cold, and dank, and wet
Brings more rain than any yet

Bleak September's mist and mud
Is enough to chill the blood

Then October adds a gale
Wind and slush and rain and hail

Dark November brings the fog
Should not do it to a dog

Freezing wet December then:
Bloody January again!

It's meant to be humorous, but it is an interesting commentary on the weather here. The fall has certainly started. The fronts come through about one per day, marching like the Third Reich across Europe. Bringing with them sudden showers and strong winds.

But it does make cycling more interesting (as if the wankers with cars here don't do enough on that account)!

I hope wherever you are today you have an excellent day with great weather!

Don Bergquist - 20 October 2006 - Thames Ditton, Surrey, UK