We have a rainfall and wind warning at the minute
Soooo I went to look at the rainfall radar
The one at Shannon is currently offline
We looked outside and decided the radar is flooded!
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Having cursed Sainsbury’s above, I should at least give them credit for stopping selling fireworks. I’m not usually one to call for things to be Banned! Immediately! Think of the Children!, but I do wish private persons could not buy fireworks. The doltish residents hereabouts are letting off huge and very noisy things, unsuited to the small gardens in this little network of roads. I can hear two dogs up tae high doh, obviously extremely distressed. The Oaf has come in and shot upstairs to his nice safe bed, sensible chap.
I hope the idiot perpetrators burn their own faces off and melt their (entirely superfluous as I see it) children. And there’s tomorrow. And Sunday, no doubt. Then 5th November proper and probably next weekend as well.
Grrrrr. And gah.
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I was a peeler in West Belfast
Lots of bangy things
The usual approach was a survey
Legs 2
Arms 2
Torso 1
Head 1
Ergo I am alive SOOO
Now to pacify the poor wee childer in squaddie uniforms
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A greeting gesture among pyrotechnicians is to wave ten fingers and stroke the beard (if available).
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Was stroking someone else’s beard permissible, or would that just have been seen as weird?
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Most of 'em that I knew had either a beard or fluffy inflammable-looking hair.
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god forgive me, I don’t actually hope that at all. Have never forgotten the baby in a side room when I was in hospital once - horribly burned, poor thing. And even if I hadn’t encountered that, I have an imagination. If I upset anyone, I am sorry.
But something like the childer’s hair being singed off - especially the princessy female brats’ - and them being traumatised and waking up screaming for weeks to inconvenience their imbecilic parents seems fitting. Other animals are being terrified, after all.
I do reserve the right to continue to wish baroque - nay, rococo - horrors on fictional characters, however.
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Thank goodness for that, I’d miss it dreadfully if you stopped.
On a totally different subject, I have a question for the cellar: How long is a scarf?
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About six inches more than that?
I’d say at a working minimum it has to be able to go round the neck and dangle at both ends.
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At a minimum, the span of your laterally extended arms, finger-tip to finger-tip. That would be a shortish scarf. 65-70" for a longish one. Unless you are excessively tiny, in which case ask your spouse and soulmate if he would be able to find you in it…
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Now there you disagree with TFD, he said about a foot longer than that.
But I’m not sure he’s right.
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Aha! A useful reply, ta. Probably about 60" for me then as I am quite tiny, in which case the Dunnock was right, another 6 inches.
(But how did the Dunnock know?)
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You don’t want to, dere. It’s some form of reverse augury wivva bit of introspective haruspication thrown in and is Not To Be Tried At Home
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You knew I’d have to look that up, didn’t you? Great word though, I’m glad to have learned it.
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glad to be of use, dere. Been good for feck-all else this evening
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Ow?
I suppose one could forecast events from one’s borborygms after a fine dinner. I mean, it wouldn’t be any less accurate…
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Just don’t try it after a truly dreadful dinner. That could be risky.
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Oh, the Sacred Birds need to be fed an extra-fine dinner.
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Sossinges have been cooked here
Steps smartly aside…
Discussions via Email & Messages with The Junior Darlings re the timing of the Cemetery Visit.
It looks as though it will be next weekend, as they have a lot on, & The Lad has come home with a swollen face & it is looking like an abscess
Sigh
Carinthia.xx
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Here Yon Bull has been a 
He has made mounts for two lights for the chimney breast and attached them and the lights
All possible thanks to some calculus I am told
Gus dear
Seeing a burns patient is horrible
Have t a hug or ten
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