Saturday November 23rd 2024 "Is it raining where YOU are haha?!!!!"

Friends - have you noticed? It's raining today, AND it's also pretty windy out there, to boot, at least here in rural West Worcestershire. 

Worcester News even put their ace cub-reporter Daniel "Scoop" Kelly onto the story, which speaks volumes (unlike Kelly himself, who sums the whole "furore" up in one closely-packed sentence QUOTE Near constant rain is set to arrive in Worcester and the city is bracing itself UNQUOTE (!)). 

What mastery of the English language - nice one, Daniel !!!!

And despite cub reporter Daniel "Scoop" Kelly's somewhat overly-laconic so-called "bombshell" "one-liner report", there's no doubt that this is a storm like no other before it, for, like, a billion reasons...

(1) It's the first storm to be named after a duo, and not any one individual

(2) It's the first storm to honour two beloved Muppet Show / Sesame Street characters

(3) um... that's it!

And as we sip our morning tea in bed, my medium-to-long-suffering wife Lois and I wonder, is it worth getting up at all today? In the event, we do struggle downstairs and spend a couple of hours reading a load of "bumph" about our impending house-move, but then we get back into bed again for the afternoon, listening to the rain still battering against our bedroom window.

And we're not alone, either. Well, to be frank, we're the only two people in THIS bed - as far as we can see - we did a quick "head count" (!), but a lot of people are doing it in other beds, and they're doing it all over the county, according to this morning's Onion News West Worcestershire edition (see page 94).

And in the press generally, "bad weather stories" have been, like, a billion of them today, almost "legion", on some pages of the local Onion News in the "other news" section. Just look at these "doozies", if you don't believe me!

On the plus side, however, what a nice cosy feeling it is to be in a warm bed this afternoon, with the rain battering against the window panes, and it also gives Lois and me a chance to debate the big news stories of the week, like this one from Lois's copy of "The Week", the magazine that gives a digest of the top stories from home and overseas, and which "plopped" through our letter-box yesterday afternoon.

Did you see this "doozy"?

Lois and I, a couple of decades ago, developed our own technique for handling annoying calls, not just from scammers but from salespersons in general, which was just to immediately put our finger on the "stop call" button, and then press it as soon as we realised it wasn't going to be a proper call. Before that, we had originally felt that we had to be polite to these callers, and to reason with them, listing, for instance, the many reasons we didn't want a conservatory or whatever.

But the "AI granny" approach is surely an even more effective response. Could it result in our being "blacklisted" by all these unwelcome callers?

I wonder.....!

21:00 We go to bed on the second programme in comedian Lenny Henry's new series about "Comedy Legends", this one being all about Sally Phillips.

Lois and I have been "gagging for it", and here it is: Sally's iconic scene from "How To Please A Woman", a film all about a woman called Gina, who's learning to be honest with what she wants out of life. And in this scene, Gina, played by Sally, is about to get what she really wants from this half-naked "hunk", who's been summoned to her house.

What madness!!! But at the same time, the most tremendous fun !!!!

And for Sally Phillips, a sophisticated woman with a degree from Oxford University, what would you guess would be the things that never fail to make her laugh?

WRONG!!! It's "dog's bottoms" of course (!).

It's always those simple things, isn't it, and not just for Sally, but for all of us, when it comes down to it.

Will this do?

[Oh just go to bed! - Ed]

22:00 We go to bed  - zzzzzzzz!!!!!