I had jobs planned today but with Ophelia sneaking up on us and with the prospect of the coastal trains being stopped the Prof has taken the car to work.
The sky is presently an odd shade of pale yellow and it feels somewhat strange outside so much so that two sets of passing walkers have already commented on it as they saw me cutting the last of the decent flowers in the garden.
It does feel that a storm is on its way
I am having one of my Jane Asher days today.
Cutting flowers, mowing the lawn,making banana bread, washing clothes, making a broccoli and broad bean tagine.
It's all go here.
Take it easy. Survey the unfolding scene with your camera later. Be an heroic rainswept windswept storm surge reporter!
ReplyDeleteMaybe that big ship on the beach will refloat itself. And break its chains and head off into the eye.
Here too John; I have a sudden boost of energy and I'm doing a few things in the house that I have been neglecting!
ReplyDeleteYour flower arrangements are so pretty!
Greetings Maria x
Thank you Maria x
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ReplyDeleteStay safe, enjoy the journey
ReplyDeleteYour wifely duties sound so onerous, but I bet you enjoy doing them.
ReplyDeleteSo many veiled insults in one short sentence
DeleteMoroccans would weep at that tagine
ReplyDeleteTypical hurricane weather: pressure drops and humidity surges. Get ready for the rain.
ReplyDeleteThe sky is very pinky yellow here too. Watched Ophelia drowning only last week, and Benedict Cucumberpatch made a rather good fist of Hamlet, much to my pleasant suprise. Stay safe x
ReplyDeleteStrange yellow light in Sheffield too... and today we are having a new front door fitted! Blow ye winds!
ReplyDeleteIt's yellow here in France too. Someone thought it might be dust from the Sahara. It sure gets around.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy being Jane Asher (although I first read Jane Austin and thought you might be feeling dramatic!).x
Hope you are all safe and sound.
ReplyDeleteLooking on the bright side ...
ReplyDeleteAustralia is looking forward to season called 'Spring' .... the season of re-birth and renewal.
The season of .. erk "Hope springs eternal" .. meh.
erk ... is Fortinbras alive?
ReplyDeleteEssex is very warm and sunny, not looking forward to the wind and rain.
ReplyDeleteWe are in the South East and the storm is supposed to miss us but we too have a really strange yellow light. It was 22 degrees at lunch time and now the temperature has dramatically dropped and the sky is a strange yellow/grey.
ReplyDeleteStay safe...
ReplyDeleteAt about 1300 hrs a black hue tinged with yellow, as you say, descended on us here at the South Coast too, with just enough wind to make small trees gently sway and leaves swirl. It's ok now. Back to normal blue sky.
ReplyDeleteShould you run out of things to do, John, here is an idea what to write on: Earlier today I read some opinion piece in connection with the new film "Call me by your name". Among other questions, one posed was whether it's ok that straight actors play gay guys. Who better than Disasterfilm and its resident film buff to comment, I thought to myself.
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I'm not precious about gays playing gays . They are actors arnt they?
DeleteRight now, here on the Sussex coast, it's got eerily and even menacingly, dark (3.20 p.m ., more like 8.p.m.) Street lights have come on. Might well be an 'Ophelia effect' - it looks end-of-world stuff. Last time I experienced something like this was 50 years ago almost exactly, on the north-east coast Whooooooo!
ReplyDeleteIt really was a weird light this morning wasn't it, that is when it finally GOT light. Rather weirdly half of my chickens were out mooching about in the dark, most unusual for them ... maybe they were a bit spooked too.
ReplyDeleteThe winds are definitely rolling in now, time to batten down the hatches and cross my fingers for the polytunnel methinks :-)
I hope the storm doesn't do any damage.
ReplyDeleteI apologize for my American ignorance in advance, but I had no idea hurricanes ever hit Wales.
ReplyDeletemeh ... heh ...
DeleteWhether the Northern Hemisphere warlords like it or not ... everything is 'upside down" in the the southern hemisphere on this planet.
DeleteBelieve me, there are, actually, intelligent human beings ... south of the equator ....
They don't really it's a storm with " hurricane " winds
DeleteI think Ophelia is or was a real tropical hurricane. I watch the hurricane weather now after H Sandy, and Ophelia was listed and watched, but very rare to go northeast to the UK.
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Just a small factoid from where I live. When a tornado is coming, the sky looks green.
ReplyDeleteI've just read that the strange sky we had this morning was due to Sarhara dust being flung at us from the storm front
DeleteWhen I worked for Hallmark in Kansas City, we artist were up on a top floor, the sky turned green and then turned black with just a bit a light at the bottom. It was 10 am. It was so weird.
DeleteHere's hoping the rest of the day goes well enough.
ReplyDeleteHope you have bolted down the farmyard against the winds.
ReplyDeleteI'm having a wait and do it again kind of day here.
We've been talking about it here, too. The light was VERY strange this afternoon.
ReplyDeleteJust heard the words "Ophelia" and "Cardiff" in the same sentence on a weather report here in Austria. Hope the flood barrier works!
ReplyDeletemeh .. am sure 'british' engineering has a plan to defeat the floods ...
DeleteDid you do your hurricane prep? Here that means buying many cases of bottled water, loaves of icky white bread, and canned foods like beans and hash that no one would ever eat..,OR filling up the car's gas tank and planning to evacuate. Yellow skies usually mean tornadoes not hurricane. I hope Ophelia is a fizzle!
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That tagine sounds very vegan.
ReplyDeleteWindy as fuck too
DeleteI'm talking about the tagine
DeleteBroccoli and broad beans together? You're in for windy night without Ophelia !
ReplyDeleteLovely flower arrangement - very country kitchen.
I hadn't thought of that. An ironic name for the storm.
ReplyDeleteJust heard there have been several deaths in Ireland due to the storm, definitely not a time to be flippant about it.
ReplyDeleteI didn't mean to sound flippant
DeleteI didn't mean you John. Flippant is a word that wouldn't describe you!
DeleteGlad you didn't have any adverse effects from Ophelia, here in the north west of England we had high winds but thankfully no damage where we are.
Here John the sky went a deep black at around ten this morning, the fog came down and it was deathly still and quite eerie. All the cars had their headlights on and all the shops were lit up. At about two this afternoon in the space of ten minutes or so it all disappeared and the sun shone. Very odd.
ReplyDeleteSahara sand and smoke from the Spanish fires pushed forward by the storm was to blame
DeleteI hope you and the fluffy gang with be safe. Withe the storm passing you by. Must look up your dinner on WW page.
ReplyDeleteWeather is so bad all over.
The news of California burning down is hard for me. All the towns where I have friends or I have visited. The deaths and loss of homes brings back such awful memories.
October 27, 1993 is when my home burned down, in a wildfire when I lived in Laguna Beach.
cheers, parsnip
The Prof's University was shut at midday. I have just come in 10 pm after a night out and it's blowy but generally ok
DeleteThat is so good to know.
DeleteMy home was in the Hollywood Hills .. an old Southern California/Spanish style house built into the hill ... I always think of that house and wonder if it is still there, when California has its fires and earthquakes. such a beautiful place, but ...
ReplyDeleteOphelia hitting you all was as much a surprise to us as it is to you.
ReplyDeleteThe churchyard trees just ten feet away from the cottage have taken a battering
DeleteStrange sky and then a squall blew through for 10minutes banging open doors and windows then silence about 4pm. 6pm all still on my hillside but you could hear wind roaring at high air altitude very strange, cat retrieved from garage roof. Mid evening at the pub in a hollow, wind blowing 2feet high conifers and the leaves one way and then surprisingly back again. Mr Tescos 10.30pm blustery and just that sense of a storm somewhere near must be the air pressure and now at 1am it is blowing a gale in great sweeping whooshes like an ocean. Cat has retired to the back of the top shelf of the wardrobe his most secret hiding place;) Feel very worried for all the Irish folk and the Isle of Man and hope everything is nailed down in Scotland We are not so used to this in England at least not in recent years. Hang on in there Wales.
ReplyDeleteErk, view from a different perspective (and with reference to the Bard ...
ReplyDelete"much ado about nothing" ... if uncomfortable with British weather - you could all migrate to an 'idyllic' Island in the Caribbean ...
Puerto Rico, perhaps ???
Ophelia hitting you all was as much a surprise to us as it is to you.
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