08-02-2012, 08:18 PM
Jeez, in what is one of the most depressing times of my life, you, pog, has just made my day! (or night!)
Mary, none of us can do anything about the weather. I come from a country whose culture is to moan about the weather no matter what. If it's good they'll moan about how it wasn't forecast. If it's bad they'll moan about how it wasn't forecast. At the end of the day they go out to a pub and exchange moans about the weather and love it, but in the end accept it, it's just the way it is. I spent seven years living in a place that had its own micro-climate. Cold, cloudy and drizzled all the time, the stuff that made you wet through but wasn't heavy rain but you were just so miserably cold and wet anything would be better. Even when the rest of the country had the most spectacularly cold winter that everywhere was covered in snow, and a beautiful sight it was, it drizzled cold and body-infusing wetness where I was. A walk back from the pub was done quickly to avoid hypothermia or at the very least avoid your umbrella being torn to pieces by 50-mph winds. And yet it still drizzled. At 50-mph, so was also quite painful...
I'm going back there for a few days because I miss the place, but not because I want to experience the weather again. The people there were special, that's what I want to experience again.
Make friends, enjoy the quirkiness and uniqueness of this island, have fun with your new friends and just learn to live with what nature throws at us. It's a good attitude to have here and will serve you well.
Tom
http://apacificview.blogspot.com/
Mary, none of us can do anything about the weather. I come from a country whose culture is to moan about the weather no matter what. If it's good they'll moan about how it wasn't forecast. If it's bad they'll moan about how it wasn't forecast. At the end of the day they go out to a pub and exchange moans about the weather and love it, but in the end accept it, it's just the way it is. I spent seven years living in a place that had its own micro-climate. Cold, cloudy and drizzled all the time, the stuff that made you wet through but wasn't heavy rain but you were just so miserably cold and wet anything would be better. Even when the rest of the country had the most spectacularly cold winter that everywhere was covered in snow, and a beautiful sight it was, it drizzled cold and body-infusing wetness where I was. A walk back from the pub was done quickly to avoid hypothermia or at the very least avoid your umbrella being torn to pieces by 50-mph winds. And yet it still drizzled. At 50-mph, so was also quite painful...
I'm going back there for a few days because I miss the place, but not because I want to experience the weather again. The people there were special, that's what I want to experience again.
Make friends, enjoy the quirkiness and uniqueness of this island, have fun with your new friends and just learn to live with what nature throws at us. It's a good attitude to have here and will serve you well.
Tom
http://apacificview.blogspot.com/