This WEATHER!
Yes yes frightfully English to talk about the weather but how's yours in these unusual times?Spain is hot. Very hot. Extremely hot. Hotter than usual hot. Breaking all previous records hot. No rain. But apart from agreeing with locals it is mucho calor it hasn't been an overworked topic.
This blog was inspired by last night's gusting wind, I was trying to make a voice recording and when I listened back there was talk talk talk whooooooosh bang (door slamming) talk talk whooosh crash (medley of shutters) talk talk whoooosh crash crash crash crash (pot plants relocating) and occasional mutters of oh bugger when I thought I'd paused the recording but hadn't. I haven't even tried again this morning because the hot gusts are ongoing. This morning there was a bright blue washing up bowl on my terrace. I have VERY high walls around my house. Never seen it before, certainly not mine.
BTW my Spanish continues to be a work in progress. I was walking the dog this morning and stopped to talk briefly to a friendly Spanish neighbour who looked puzzled when I remarked on the wind. What I should have said was 'muy ventoso hoy' (she'd probably noticed, but small talk is small talk and my Spanish small talk is miniscule.) What I said was muy ventana hoy. Not so much "very windy today" as "very window today" ...
Tomayto tomahto.
Tell me about rain, tell me about cool breezes, throw in some snow if you've got it, let me live vicariously.
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Since then it's mostly rained, or has been overcast. With whopping great highs of 14C, or sometimes even higher, it's been a muggy summer. I have my fan on almost constantly, especially in the hot, sticky nights where it rarely goes below 10C.
It's rained so much my small gardening projects were a bit of a washout, but I've learned from my mistakes. I think I might get to forage a bumper crop of sweet chestnuts this year, though. What we can grow and where is a global issue if food production is to continue.
Last week my daughter, two of the grandkids and I visited St Fagans, the Museum of Welsh Life. We picked an overcast day to go because it's mostly an outdoors thing, but despite the usually reliable forecast the sun came out, like completely. We went home earlier than we had planned because none of us could handle it.
We've been lucky to have our regular Welsh summer while everywhere else (apart from Ireland) has burned. Today is overcast with highs of 15C, but it's breezy enough to feel quite fresh. My voile curtains are billowing.
Would be leaving for Rome tomorrow and current temperature in Rome is 36’C
Jac
For my ‘Regional Cuisine’ class finals, I chose Wales and cooked Cawl for my chef and my fellow classmates. I also had to do a 10-minute clip on anything Welsh. I got my son to photoshop my face into this….
Everybody loves it!
Jac
For my ‘Regional Cuisine’ class finals, I chose Wales and cooked Cawl for my chef and my fellow classmates. I also had to do a 10-minute clip on anything Welsh. I got my son to photoshop my face into this….
Everybody loves it!
Most people don't know that Wales exists, let alone that we have a language, traditional food and a costume which suits you well.
I like laverbread oatcakes the best, but you might like to try your hand a bara brith.
I managed to pull out my final assignment that I thankfully have saved, from my one drive! Yayyyyy!
Some of the excerpts from my 10-minute PowerPoint presentation.
I would love to try laverbread if I get the chance. During the presentation, I made fun of Welsh Cakes, “It cannot decide what it want to be!”
So, Jac, do you think it’s more of a scone, a cookie or a pancake?
A list of fun facts
Heat..yep. Last week 3 days near a hundred. Broke the record set in 1948! I remembered living in the farmhouse, laying upstairs in bed, bare of anything cloth. Both windows open and the little fan blowing and trying to sleep. Or as a child listening to the fan in my PARENTS bedroom. Or putting up hay in blistering heat.
Right now it is partly cloudy and 75 F.
There is the saying...dont like the weather? Wait five minutes, it will change.
I pin hopes on El Nino. Right now 60 % chance of it forming. And if it does, I can hope for a warmer winter. As opposed to the blizzards and minus 35F I saw growing up.
I am a farmer. So weather is what I get. Like it or lump it. And am lucky to live in the middle of Wisconsin which seems to avoid lots of bad weather.
But, it will be weather..whether I like it or not.
I managed to pull out my final assignment that I thankfully have saved, from my one drive! Yayyyyy!
Some of the excerpts from my 10-minute PowerPoint presentation.
I would love to try laverbread if I get the chance. During the presentation, I made fun of Welsh Cakes, “It cannot decide what it want to be!”
So, Jac, do you think it’s more of a scone, a cookie or a pancake?
A list of fun facts
Laverbread oatcakes (kind of like a veggie burger made of oats, laverbread, plenty of fresh herbs, onions, garlic and seasoning) can be made with any fresh seaweed. They're delicious served on thick wholemeal, buttered toast, sprinkled with sea salt flakes and a generous squeeze of lemon.
As for Welsh Cakes, I personally think they're an abomination along with scones, cookies and pancakes. They're most like scones, though and not very cookie -, or pancake-like at all.
Heat..yep. Last week 3 days near a hundred. Broke the record set in 1948! I remembered living in the farmhouse, laying upstairs in bed, bare of anything cloth. Both windows open and the little fan blowing and trying to sleep. Or as a child listening to the fan in my PARENTS bedroom. Or putting up hay in blistering heat.
Right now it is partly cloudy and 75 F.
There is the saying...dont like the weather? Wait five minutes, it will change.
I pin hopes on El Nino. Right now 60 % chance of it forming. And if it does, I can hope for a warmer winter. As opposed to the blizzards and minus 35F I saw growing up.
I am a farmer. So weather is what I get. Like it or lump it. And am lucky to live in the middle of Wisconsin which seems to avoid lots of bad weather.
But, it will be weather..whether I like it or not.
Great comment, thanks!
Since then it's mostly rained, or has been overcast. With whopping great highs of 14C, or sometimes even higher, it's been a muggy summer. I have my fan on almost constantly, especially in the hot, sticky nights where it rarely goes below 10C.
It's rained so much my small gardening projects were a bit of a washout, but I've learned from my mistakes. I think I might get to forage a bumper crop of sweet chestnuts this year, though. What we can grow and where is a global issue if food production is to continue.
Last week my daughter, two of the grandkids and I visited St Fagans, the Museum of Welsh Life. We picked an overcast day to go because it's mostly an outdoors thing, but despite the usually reliable forecast the sun came out, like completely. We went home earlier than we had planned because none of us could handle it.
We've been lucky to have our regular Welsh summer while everywhere else (apart from Ireland) has burned. Today is overcast with highs of 15C, but it's breezy enough to feel quite fresh. My voile curtains are billowing.
My ideal perfect comfortable-for-me daytime is 20C to 30C and nights 10C to as high as 18C. That must be out there. Somewhere.
Today is cool, so far, I'm happier - 28C in the house, and only 22% humidity, YAY
Fab comment, thanks!
Would be leaving for Rome tomorrow and current temperature in Rome is 36’C
Enjoy, enjoy
My ideal perfect comfortable-for-me daytime is 20C to 30C and nights 10C to as high as 18C. That must be out there. Somewhere.
Today is cool, so far, I'm happier - 28C in the house, and only 22% humidity, YAY
Fab comment, thanks!
The last three days I have reached for a hoody several times and I've even had a delicious shiver, or two. This morning I was out litter picking in the communal garden the moment it was light enough to see. I guess it was around 11C, but haven't smelt the turn of the season yet.
Not that I can consistently smell, or taste much since covid, but it ocassinally comes back overwhelmingly like I've mmentarily morphed into a Labrador. I'll keep sniffing the breeze and I'll let you know when more hope is on the way.
As for the costume, yes it's traditional, not that its practical. Ah well.
And now it is cooler and life is worth living again
Are you a white duck or one of those fancy colourful ones?
The last three days I have reached for a hoody several times and I've even had a delicious shiver, or two. This morning I was out litter picking in the communal garden the moment it was light enough to see. I guess it was around 11C, but haven't smelt the turn of the season yet.
Not that I can consistently smell, or taste much since covid, but it ocassinally comes back overwhelmingly like I've mmentarily morphed into a Labrador. I'll keep sniffing the breeze and I'll let you know when more hope is on the way.
I think we're done with savage heat for now, will let next year worry about itself, for now I have turned my life-saving 8 speed lounge fan down to 1 and my 5 speed bedroom fan ditto and in just a few months I'll be wearing long sleeves and can whinge about being chilly, whoop whoop.
As for the costume, yes it's traditional, not that its practical. Ah well.
Weather here is cooling...fall weather is in the air...much needed rain is on its way and the fires will eventually quell...