Rain
I don’t know if it’s just me but it seems like it’s always bloody raining in Colchester. Not only that, it seems to rain when I am walking home from the station or, as it did last night, waits a couple of hours for me to be walking about without my umbrella and then drenching me. It’s a well known fact that I hate precipitation in all its forms so I find this propensity to rain all the time quite disturbing. I’ve even checked on the tinterwebnet; it claims (in terms of average rainfall) that I live in an area where there isn’t supposed to be that much. It drizzled on me tonight when I walked home. I do wish it would stop.
Isn’t “Colchester” latin for “miserably cold place where it pisses down constantly?”
Spot the person who doesn’t know their Latin. The ‘cester’, ‘chester’ and ‘caster’ endings come from the Latin castra: a camp. Thus the correct name would be “miserably cold camp where it pisses down”. Incidentally its Celtic name was Camulodunon, meaning ‘the fortress of [the rain god] Camulos’. Also Boudica didn’t so much burn the city to the ground as get a little overenthusiastic when trying to keep warm while waging war with the Romans. Had it not rained (as it does every evening) the fires would not have been lit and the city would not have burned to the ground. All true (and by true, we mean false, which is the greatest form of truth)
My answer is to “go live somewhere hot” .. where the rain, when it does occasionally fall, is a blessed relief .. I fully intend to do this as soon as funds allow me to live the life of Riley!
Actually, living somewhere hot brings its own problems (having living in a number of hot places I can say this from a position of authority
) not least of which is: they tend not to be England. There are things about this country that drive me nuts (the weather, the public transport, the yoof), but there are other things that you miss when you’re not here. Maybe one day I’ll move to Barbados or somewhere, but not yet.
I quite like rain. You know, from the safety of a dry house or office.
Rain is possibly the worst form of precipitation. If it must precipitate then snow is the way forward.
Mmmn, Come to Stamford, come to Stamford, Come to Stamford?
Though I suppose it is raining today, it doesn’t bother so much.