Published on 12, July, 2020
Anyone else have this?
Where most look forward to ever more daylight, it's around now that I start to miss in advance the clear delineation between day and night. That first evening leaving work and it's still daylight depresses me profoundly in a way I can't quite explain. The aggressive insistence of Spring I suppose.
I'm really going to miss my 4.30 pm twilights, but I suppose if we had our personal favourite seasons (autumn/winter in my case) all year round we'd never appreciate them to the extent we do.
Anyone else understand/have this reversal of the more conventional form of SAD? It's not that I won't get *something* out of the warmer months of flourishing nature, but witnessing Spring's birthpains is like an assault on the senses. Daffodils kind of disgust me - they're so raw, the early shock troops of the season, forced out of the soil into cold harsh misery and screaming in pain. Crocuses too. Like the visual equivalent of being near chopped raw onions or something. Snowdrops at least look more pleasant and delicate, but they're so impertinently 'early' - can we just have winter for now please, thanks? Anyone get this, or am I just sounding insane?
Great poem but I do love the spring. I love gardening so it’s good! All the best.
I note that you aren't taking my imminent demise very seriously. Wot a loss my def wil bee to Litteratcha!! My toy cats and dogs will be orphans, and possibly turn into social outcasts...like Batman or Matt Hancock.
More seriously: Thanks for helping me understand the weather page.
When a pun takes priority over conversational logic!
I have no idea what I meant by that.
You can’t spell twister without twit.
If my tatty abode flies away like that house in The Wizard of Oz, I shall blame YOU for misleading me!
Yours sincerely,
Ima Twit,
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40’s kind of nice - a bit of lightly howling wind to feel cosy being in from, but nothing that’s going to put livestock through your window
I think so yes. Strength and direction. Maybe 40 isn’t too bad - it’s just next to twenty it looks dramatic. Gale force is upwards of 60 I think
Scary Weather Screenshot ahoy:
Am I right/wrong in thinking that the two black circles (with the number 40 inside) represent the strength of the wind?
Batten down the hatches! I'm sure it's a mistake
It could be that. Do you mind if I send you a link to the BBC page, mate?
Think someone's done a typo there! The modern equivalent of Michael Fish sticking up a magnetic 'GOF' on the live broadcast. Although there are weather warnings, nothing seems too extreme.
I'm really worried about tonight's weather but I might've misunderstood. I find it hard to understand the BBC weather pages. Normally, what I *think* is the symbol that shows the strength of the wind reads from, say, 9 up to something like 17 (which is very windy) in my area; but tonight from twelve o'clock it reads 40(!) Surely I must have got this wrong? - there's only a Met Office weather-warning in place for rain, not wind.
I'm only seeing this now! Nobody's ever written a poem about me (and my deranged thinking), I'm as touched as I am amused. Thank you!
It’s one of those things though isn’t it? We know that there’ll be a specific day and time of year that we’ll shuffle off. Will it be one of our favourite days of the week or the opposite? Will we care? Or be able to? Will it be a cool autumnal or winter evening in a warm room or a stifling humid day in summer? I think to go, peaceful and cosy, on a Winter Friday after dark in a snowy December and at home would be the ideal. Bit of a lottery win scenario though! I suppose I can see why some choose their own time and place rather than let the fares decide.
I’ll swap cocoa for tea but otherwise… same
Sounds great!
When I'm an old lady I want to go in my sleep on one of those perfect winters nights, hot cocoa next to me and a fire crackling peacefully. I mean in a nice way like sleep not disease or heart attack lol.
I'd like to die in Winter... but not because of it
Ah, yes I remember now. Buffalo!