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Dina:
--- Quote from: Dina on July 22, 2024, 08:17:18 PM ---Enjoy "your" vacations then! The pleasure to sleep in...
This week in "crazy weather" it is forecasted that there will be high, spring-like temperatures. Then we are surprised when people gets a cold or even the flu, it is difficult to know how to dress.
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Update. I've been deceived like a little girl. The weather had been awful. The temperature was not as high as predicted but much worse was the fact that we were sourrounded by fog all day. We barely see the heaven a little while. It was a very good London impersonation. In the morning I tried to imagine I was on a Double Decker :)
Regenbogen:
@Dina. So you were deceived by the weather. LOL
When I was in Ireland with friends a long time ago, I wanted to show them some beautiful sights, but there was fog. So we spent the day driving around in the fog, seeing nothing but the foggy road. But we still had fun. I told them for example: "if you look to your left, you could see the ocean behind the meadow. If there wasn't the fog. And here to our right behind the fog, there would be some sheep, up ahead some beautiful mountains with a stunning view of the fog.
At the end of the day it started raining and storming. But at least we could see some ruins that way and run through the rain to get to them.
On the other hand, when I was in England as a student, there was an unexpected heat wave. Most locals said this wasn't common. Heat yes, but not for such an extended time. It hadn't been raining for several weeks and every green was brown.
LOL, and here we are talking about the weather. We had a saying in my youth that if you can't think about anything to talk aboit and don't want to be silent either, just talk about the weather. There is always something to talk about. If you have nothing in common with the person next to you, the weather is the only thing you both experience.
So of course we made fun of it. Every time there was a pause in conversation, someone would throw in a "and hey, what about the weather?".
I would like to travel to England next year. I need to have new passports made for the kids and myself. With the ones we currently have we would not be allowed in. Only other EU countries and some others.
I want to see London again and maybe do some travelling around.
Dina:
--- Quote from: Regenbogen on July 24, 2024, 03:48:44 PM ---@Dina. So you were deceived by the weather. LOL
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Or at least by the weather people :)
Today is a little rainy and warm, both of what had been forecasted. So this time they got it right. It is not a nice weather but at least I was not deceived. Honest climate :)
We also have that saying about the weather, and our cliché phrase is "tiempo loco, eh?". It means, "Crazy time" and it is used specially for when one day is very different of the next one, or for one day begins sunny and ends in rain or the other way around. But sometimes it is used just for conversation, no matter if the weather is actually crazy or not. It is very important to say it with the "eh?" in the end. Otherwise it would sound fake.
Speaking of the weather is a good thing here in the forum though, as we have such different weathers. I do remember one day here in the forums. It was raining at the same time in USA (Philadelphia, I think), Argentina (Buenos Aires), UK (two or three different cities) and Russia (I do not remember the city). It was super fun. The forumite in Russia is a woman from USA who was working there for a time. She was in a couple of cities, one was Moscow but I do not remember the others. I miss her. Once she went back to USA she was very busy and slowly stopped coming here.
Your story about Ireland is hilarious, I did not know you had studied in England. Did you spend a long time there?
I've only been in London once, but I loved it. I think it is a beautiful city. Also, I hope it is easy to have your passsports done.
Regenbogen:
Ah, sorry. I think I caused a misunderstanding. I did not study in England. I was there on a language exchange during my time as a student. It was just two weeks with a group of other students. It was fun.
I like talking about the weather. It's an interesting topic.
On Monday our Da Vinci was missing. He just came back today in the morning. Now he is at home sleeping. Someone must have fed him, he wasn't hungry when he came home. But he was very keen on being petted a lot. Usually he is afraid of other people. He always hides when we have visitors. I am so happy he is alive and well. He is such a sweety.
Dina:
Aw, I am so glad he is back. And of course he is sleeping, it is their way to cope with stress, beyond the normal energy recovery thing.
It's ok. 2 weeks in England count as "studying in England" for me. I bet it was super fun being there with other young people!
If you go to London again when you get your passport, you must go to Forbidden Planet, a comic book and other pop-culture related store. We have similar things here but none so big. I bought a Dresden book there and a Doctor Who t-shirt. And my forum friends bought me a birthday present there :)
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