Things that fall out of the sky

[shewhomust]

One day, I asked my Finnish teacher if it was true that her language had 30 different words for snow. She fixed me with her big, blinky eyes.

"No, you poor deluded fool," she sighed. "We Finns only have one word for ‘snow’. The trouble is, you English think that everything white that falls out of the sky is ‘snow’."

Jonathan Clements, Schoolgirl Milky Crisis

Similarly that cold wet stuff falling out of the sky right now cannot be rain, because the forecast told us that it would not rain north of Middlesbrough.

(I think I'd have noticed if they'd moved Middlesbrough.)

Comments

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Rakastan shewhomust, you may have moved into the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodka belt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_belts_of_Europe by way of global warnings unheeded but for absolute beginners, there is always Popular Music from Vittula http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jul/20/fiction.features1

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the comment--headachy here, and posted it in wrong journal.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

You rescued it so fast I never saw it - so, (literally) no problem!

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

That's a very good story!

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Ah, you English...

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

Of course they moved Middlesbrough.

It's still winter here, even though it's spring. This is one of those seasonal turns that are refusing to happen.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Garden of Englandsville is unseasonably damp- very unseasonably damp indeed!

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Hey, we talk about the weather. What'ya gonna do about it?

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Whereas here, it seems to be autumn (two weeks before I set off on my summer holiday...).

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Nothing unseasonal about Bank Holiday rain!

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

But fairly continuous rain for days either side on the other hand..........

Sun's finally back today! :o)