And Then It Rained...

What could possibly come after a few days of horrendous snow that basically shut down Britain for a few days? Torrential downpours that seem to be doing more or less the same thing. I have to say, they really know how to do annoying weather here. Not like in Canada, where when it snows, it SNOWS and people are more or less used to it and get on with life (for most of the country that is, disregard Vancouver in this).














So now we have slightly melted snow combined with huge amounts of rain clogging drains and flooding roads and houses - not as bad as 2007, but pretty bad. It was really bucketing down last night to the point where the kiddos didn't even want to go outside, not that I can really blame them.

The best part of the rain is the way the British media goes way overboard with its reporting - the British media are nothing if not extreme - a few headlines which greeted us this morning:

"Evacuations planned as driving rain brings 65 flood warnings"

"A severe storm is sweeping Britain, bringing heavy rain, fierce winds and treacherous driving conditions."

On an unrelated note, I've been having a nice hot bowl of porridge for my breakfast lately. Normally I put a bit of nutmeg and allspice in the milk as I heat it on the stove (we don't have a microwave, everything has to be done on the hob). This morning I was a bit tired and feeling a bit out of it due to my cold - instead of allspice, I grabbed the tin of cayenne pepper and dumped a whole load of it in. I wouldn't recommend trying this.