To quote my then 3 year old granddaughter as she kicked her boots across the kitchen “Its fucking raining again”! I ws driving just now and had to slow as windscreen wipers on steroids could not keep up. OK it was short – but is adding to our above average for the year (reached at end of September. That is 850-900mm p.a. . (861mm was recorded in Bristol to the end of Sept). So 3 months to go and we have had a lot this month too!
You know you are old when !-
-You remember spam in tins with a wind key to open; Money back on lemonade bottles; Having a co-op number; Green Shield Stamps; England winning the football men’s World Cup; Dixon of Dock Green = Black and White Minstrel show, Z-Cars,Softly Softly, Grandstand; Mrs.Dales diary (I can’t actually remember but know my mum listened; Clitheroe Kid? Crackerjack; National anthem at end of film in cinema; Wearing Sunday best clothes to go out (probably did not last long!); buses with platforms at the back! Typhoid scares; having to wear short trousers to school aged 6!; smoking in lectures at Law School; Ladybird sweat shirts for children – mine was yellow;