rain (heavy)

wet day

(1) It is going to be an incredibly wet day apparently. Brace for it (if you live in Victoria). I woke up just in time to get the washing off the line. The first lot of washing was quite dry and by the time I got to the last bit it was quite damp. Hope our roof doesn't leak further - it may.

(2):

it rained today

You would not believe the rain today. I was up late last night writing a lecture and so I didn't get to work until 11:30. On the way in (I was driving the Honda, which leaks - or at least it hasn't leaked for years, because it hasn't been in the rain for years) a thunderstorm hit. I guess I have said this more and more lately because we have had a bit of precipitation, but it's still true - people still don't remember how to behave in rain! So when I got to campus people were running hither and thither with genuine fear and confusion on their faces; I heard one girl say 'my shoes!' Personally once again I had cause to appreciate the value of sloth; I had left a raincoat in the back of the car about a year ago. My feet still got wet though ('my shoes!') because of course the drains are all backed up with old leaves and so on so the roads become rivers. Anyway, it was all pretty nice. Didn't seem to do much for the water tank mind. But it's supposed to rain all week, on and off.

greetings from a watery grave

Can you believe this weather I say to myself and no-one else because one minute I am just on the sunshine coast saying goodbye to my colleagues as we drift back mainly southwards, next thing I know the mongoose is upon us (to quote Pete n Dud), and it is absolutely pouring so much so that me, still so unused to like rain, drive the car to the library and get out and run in and by the time I get there (20 seconds max) it is like I bathed in my clothes, no-one here in the Caloundra library is particularly impressed or interested by the deluge however so I am keeping my panic under wraps.

It's a good library, the Caloundra Library, built in 1986. Known as the John L. Beausang Library. I have also spent time in the Stan Tutt Heritage Room.

See you again soon, or on the other side if I am washed away.