Walking home yesterday I passed a couple of people having a “heated discussion” about who had ” shovelled snow onto my car, man! ”
100 yards on and I met another fellow. He was shouldering 2 snow shovels and walking along Columbus Heights, calling:”Anyone need help to get their car out?” I’d like to clone him.
In an hour or so TC Yasi is going to make landfall.
Makes 3′ of yellow snow on your doorstep a lesser thing. Unless, of course, you’re the one who has to shovel it!
It’s a hard time to be far away from home. But even harder to have to face something like this!
So I’m doing what I always do in tough situations -‘avin’ a bit of laugh.
And this lady is always guaranteed for a chuckle chez Dinahmow.
And for pudding (I’m English -we say pudding, not dessert!), try this
Enjoy.
February 2, 2011 at 9:18 am
The Ballad of Barry and Freda! Brilliant brilliant lyrics… I ‘d forgotten just how funny it is.
Hope your home, family and friends stay safe over the next 24 hours… Queensland really doesn’t need this storm after those horrendous floods. I love Aus… and would love to go back for another visit. I know down-to-earth Aussies won’t be beat, but the forces of nature are unforgiving and indiscriminate in what they destroy.
Celia
x
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February 2, 2011 at 9:25 am
I think I know which Celia you are! 🙂 Thankyou.
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February 2, 2011 at 9:22 am
Sorrrry! OH has been playing with my studio ‘pooter again!
Sending good wishes to the snowy east of the US and Queensland
from ‘a bit damp and chilly’ Suffolk*
Celia
* we don’t dew ‘extreme weather’ ‘ere boiy!
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February 2, 2011 at 9:30 am
Yes! You are “that” Celia! Thankyou again. OH is not going to be allowed to play with this toy! 😉
I’m going through the Victoria Wood Collection.
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February 2, 2011 at 10:33 am
I love the beard beanie!
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February 2, 2011 at 12:08 pm
He could have had an ordinary balaclava, but… 🙂
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February 2, 2011 at 11:22 am
How’d you like the mess that greeted you THIS morning?! We are being tested.
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February 2, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Ice-skating down Atlantic Ave? The stems on the roses seem encased in clear plastic sleeving. Where’s that guy with the shovels now! 😉
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February 2, 2011 at 12:59 pm
Yasi sounds so tame…I mean, the name, Yasi. I’d give dem big bad winds names of big, bad people. Or use adjectives from various cultures.
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February 2, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Maybe “yasi” means something very rude in another language?
AT least they are no longer always given feminine names!
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February 3, 2011 at 1:14 am
In spite of looking at nothing else but Yasi all day yesterday and this morning, I hadn’t seen that comparison-with-the-world article. Just amazing. Good VW is able to add a light touch to some worrying days.
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February 3, 2011 at 1:19 am
Yes, she’s very clever. Maybe we should have something like that piped into evac. centres? Oh, wait! They have no power!
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February 4, 2011 at 4:51 am
Hope The Man and G & S are weathering Yasi. Yikes! You stay warm, Dinahmow!
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February 4, 2011 at 7:52 am
Mackay was lucky; ferocious wind but very little damage.
I’m making the most of sunny days before the next icy rain blows in! 🙂
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February 4, 2011 at 10:00 am
the bits about beat me on the bottom with a Woman’s Weekly and bending over the Hostess trolley just crack me up. . . she is so talented!!
(-:
watched that terrible storm on the news – such a relief that noone was hurt altho the damage done is utterly dreadful
)-:
just so glad you’re having a fab time in NY!!
XXX
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February 4, 2011 at 9:08 pm
That staid old Womens Weekly, famous only for knitting patterns. Who knew?
🙂
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February 4, 2011 at 11:25 pm
We aren’t seeing much on our news about Yasi, are we? That bothers me. We and the Middle East are not the only news to report and I get mad that we don’t see more of what goes on anywhere else. I do hope there is not too much devastaion in your country.
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February 5, 2011 at 3:27 am
Yes, Kate, sometimes the news boys only chase what’s close to the pay cheques!
Yasi did some terrible damage to several northern towns, but Mackay was lucky. Flooding further south will be the next worry as waters flow down.
But Aussies are pretty good at getting back on their feet.
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February 5, 2011 at 8:01 am
You’ve put me in the mood for getting my old Victoria Wood videos out… just got to remember how to work the video now…
Sx
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February 5, 2011 at 9:48 am
Well, if your video technique’s vanished, Youtube has a lot of Victoria clips. Including some of the slightly rude ones! 🙂
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February 6, 2011 at 6:26 pm
Watch out where the huskies go.
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February 6, 2011 at 10:17 pm
Woof!
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