As I was brushing the front path this morning a neighbour stopped by and asked if I noticed anything odd about the sky. Apart from being a deep azure blue, I couldn't figure anything out of the ordinary, that is, until he pointed out that there were no jet vapour trails zigzagging over the heavens! (pic from the front garden)"It's the Iceland volcano" he explained excitedly " there is a toxic cloud coming our way and all planes have been grounded!" (yes, it did sound all very 2012 !!!) Now I did have visions of the villagers, with hankies tied around the faces battling a Pompeii type ash cloud, which I thank goodness will not materialise (after all, I had just washed the cottage windows!!!), but I have found the whole unfolding story quite fascinating.
I think that the only effects we will feel here in Trelawnyd, is reportedly a "lavender" sunset
Off to the pictures with Hazel this evening to see No One Knows About Persian Cats, review later
There you go John! Time to write a book, call it Lavender Sunset and have it all about how the villagers react to this beginning of then. HeeHee!
ReplyDeleteHave a most lovely day and enjoy the movie!
I meant to say the end, not then, argh!
ReplyDeleteMy dear mother rang me this morning and said something along the lines of.....
ReplyDelete"theres a huge volcanic dust cloud coming from iceland if the skies start going dark quickly get all your chickens inside, but make sure you wrap something round your face as its toxic, shut the doors and windows and stay inside, don't bother hanging any washing out either"
Bless her she's like a harbinger of the 4 horsemen.
xx
jess...
ReplyDeletewhen chenobyl; occurred I remember my mother (admittedly after a couple of gins) telling me just to eat canned goods!!!!
I was thinking about you this morning after I turned on the television. WOW, it's a huge eruption. Take more pictures. I will have my sons stay tuned for their science classes.
ReplyDeleteOK, so I didn't watch the news..... This could be more serious than a person might think.
ReplyDeleteI remember when Mt. St. Helen did it's thing and we had "fallout" clear in MN. I had ash get in the clothes hanging on the lines outside. The sky was full of ash and though it didn't blot out the sun or anything, it was a different kind of haze than I was used to. Probably not good for people with respiratory problems.
If it isn't one thing, it's two...
J n J
Of course, there's a conspiracy theory or two to be made of this...
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PS. Re. Chernobyl. I was living in Cumbria at the time, and the area was badly affected by the fallout. There are still nuclear 'hot spots' on some of the fells where livestock farming is still not allowed. Heaven knows how much radioactive fallout we breathed in.
PPS. 'Chernobyl' is, I understand, the Ukrainian word for mugwort (although some sources claim incorrectly it's wormwood). Mugwort has dream-inducing, soporific qualties, and is associated with magic in European folklaw. A lovely idea.
Years ago, a jet flying from India to Japur (I think) kept losing engines (use of). When the plane lost altitude and the pilots were desperately trying to restart the engines, when they reached a certain altitude the engines would restart. When the plane reached its original altitude the engines went out again. They were sucking volcanic ash into their engines. As matter of fact, I think it was British Air.
ReplyDeleteI'm feeling on the low side this afternoon. I'm sure all will be well with the volcano. I shall try to get an e-mail out to you tomorrow.
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We had a huge fire about 2 hours from here last year. It burned about 45,000 acres. The winds blew the smoke inland and we were having to rush extra cylinders of different types of breathing gases to the hospitals. It was really affecting people's breathing. It wasn't dark, dark here, but you could certainly tell there was a fire, and I could smell the smoke indoors.
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we dont really have fire problems here......( except one neighbour who lights a big bonfire once a year!!)
ReplyDeleteI guess we just dont experience the big environmental issues here as you do in the US Randy
Did you know that airline pilots get the highest dosage of radiation in any industry due to the proximity of the sun when they are flying.
ReplyDeleteJust in case "yawn"
When we lived in Alaska a volcano erupted and dropped ash all over everything--Our house had a large lilac bush that had never bloomed, and the next year after the eruption, it did.
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