Solitude

I can't remember when I last vocalised anything today (apart from singing along to "That's What Makes You Beautiful" but that kind of ruins my point). This morning I went to the gym, did my thang and came back to an empty house where I have been pottering around, finishing my book, eating spoonfuls of nutella, then changing to peanut butter, watching youtube videos, then changing back to nutella, ironing (note to mum- very subtle leaving the ironing board out for me to trip over). I will never understand when people don't like their own company, sure you get the occasional odd look when you're in coffee shops by yourself, reading the paper in the middle of the day, but to me there's something calming about spending the day with nothing more than the slurp of tea, the tip tap of keyboard keys, the sound of a page turning and your own insanity.

Rain, kindly bugger off

dreich- a combination of dull, overcast, drizzly, cold, misty and miserable weather.

Here in Britain we are somewhat fixated by the weather. The clichés are endless and you know that a conversation isn’t going anywhere when it turns to the climate, and yet this post is going to be just about that- weather. I’m usually all for the weather in Britain, we get ridiculously excited when the sun shines and everybody flocks to the nearest beer garden, pubs sell out of cider and there are entirely too many pasty beer bellies on show. Despite this I am here to say: Mother Nature will you please get a grip, it’s July and I am having to stuff my soggy shoes with newspaper. 

despite appearances I do not live on the banks of a river

Tonight I had to cancel plans because I couldn’t find a way to navigate the flooded roads, what is this madness? In July I would like to be peeling myself off of leather seats outside and consuming my bodyweight in ice cream please. The rain is currently at the point where if you stood outside for five seconds you would get wetter than if you jumped in a swimming pool fully clothed, and that’s pretty wet. Now, does anyone going to a sunnier clime happen to have space in their suitcase?