Bah! and Yay!

[karohemd]

Bah:
Yesterday morning started out wonderfully gloomy so I thought "perfect for taking spooky pictures tonight" but I didn't want to do it during torrential rain.
Obviously, it's bright and sunny this morning.

What often surprises me is that a country that's so used to rain and water can't build roads with proper drainage. After a few minutes of rain, there are deep puddles everywhere and hardly a gutter where the water doesn't stand.

Yay:
I'm going to Synthetic Culture tonight. It's a fiver when you turn up dressed as a pirate.
Anyone else going?

Comments

[the-laydee.livejournal.com]

There's about 30 or 40 of us going from down here. It's a friends birthday. I'm heading to Ginnie's afterwards. I might actually see you this time!

[blue-cat.livejournal.com]

"a country that's so used to rain and water can't build roads with proper drainage. After a few minutes of rain, there are deep puddles everywhere and hardly a gutter where the water doesn't stand."

But [a] the victorians built it all and it hasn't been updated much since and [b] we are used to it, having all this rain and stuff :D

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Cool! Grab me if I don't recognise you. :o)

I'll be wearing a black flouncy shirt and a black (or leopard print, I haven't decided yet) bandanna.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

"the victorians built it all"
The old bits generally work a lot better than new ones, though. The road past our office building is brand new and one of the worst in Cambridge.

Even after almost ten years in this country I will never understand this "that's the way it's always been, why do something about it" attitude Brits have...

[the-laydee.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! I'll not be dressed as a pirate what with not being arsed and all. Should be wearing a panel skirt. I now have short, red hair instead of a mohawk. Grab me if you see me too.

[astatine210.livejournal.com]

The very fact that Cambridge is there at all is a tribute to drainage :)

[reindeerflotila.livejournal.com]

That is what my canadian ex ranted about at great length too. 'Institutionalised Idiocy' was his phrase of choice.

[nadriel.livejournal.com]

Yarr! Avast! Etc!

I shall indeed be pirating it tonight...