What's the weather doing where you are?

[Pirate]

dark in Gloucester...but there appears to loads of shooting stars about, and a strange glow all around, and thunder 

[GROWLER]

Gorgeous day today  

Nearly finished my Christmas shopping.

By next weekend should be all done and dusted except for the few items I will order on line.


I am bathing in a sea of smugness  

Oh bloody 'ell fire. Is it THAT time of year, yet again.

I've been systematically drenched all day long today in a typical welsh forest succession of dismal and grey deluges. Covered in mud too.

This time last week I was having an evening meal outside a restaurant on Marbella beach, watching the sunset and the full moon rise in tremperatures of an exceedingly pleasant 20c.

Just a distant memory of seemingly 1 million years ago now.

[Miss Demeanour]

I thought you liked getting dirty though 

[GROWLER]

I thought you liked getting dirty though  

I do, I do, but Growler jnr has been with me all day, and trying my patience to well over the normal and usual  limit, and the site I'm on was having to be shared with some some pretty damned gruff L.R owners club bash, who some of which didn't seem to take too well me being there.
Got stuck on some very slippy tree roots on a particulary hilly and potentially dangerous section too....with a 15 yr old gerl behind the wheel.   I nearly bailed out to leave her to it.

I'm just a bit down today/all week. Post 'olly's blues I guess. Sign that it was a good 'un though I suppose.

[Miss Demeanour]

But you're an honourable bear and wouldn't do that I'm sure   

Is it not officially L.R hunting season now ? .......round em up and shoot their tyres out 

[Miss Demeanour]

Post oliday blues are a bugger...you need to have something else to look forward to ...not matter how far away it is.

I have nothing on the horizon and it is a real downer    - although hopefully will be sorting out something for next year with some friends soon.

[GROWLER]

But you're an honourable bear and wouldn't do that I'm sure   

Is it not officially L.R hunting season now ? .......round em up and shoot their tyres out 

I'd swear he's turning into an oap wumman. Doin' me swede in he is. So so so so bloody pedantic and fussy about every last small detail. I could almost have pleasurably dug an 'ole and buried him in the forest today.  

As for L.R. owner club types, well i have to be careful what I say, as a certain dog 'round 'ere owns one now,   but really, they are a unique breed amongst themselves....and they all look the flamin' same, gruff, dirty, unshaven or bearded, camoflauge wearing fat bellied slobs in the main, and they all wear those stoopid fluffy 'at's with ear flaps on the side.
Couldn't understand what most of them were sayin' tbh.

I think some of them took a dislike to me as I don't drive a Landy. They ARE generally very very possesive and loyal to the brand for some weird reason.
Nothing else should be allowed off road it seems, tossers.

[GROWLER]

Post oliday blues are a bugger...you need to have something else to look forward to ...not matter how far away it is.

I have nothing on the horizon and it is a real downer    - although hopefully will be sorting out something for next year with some friends soon.

I have though, that's what I can't understand.

T.G. live at the N.E.C. this coming Friday, pickin' me new van the following day, green laning in N.Wales the following Sunday around Bala  , celebrations (hopefully) when Growler jnr passes his driving test on Mrs G's burfday the following Wednesday, out the following Sunday to watch some of me mates competing in a rally on Angelsey, and then off for a 4 day jaunt to Grizedale forest on Dec 3rd with some good mates, and then up me BIG 'ill (Snowdon) on the following monday with me Geeerman matey.

Yea, dull and boring in'it?

I just need to shake meself up and be thankful, soft miserable shite I am.


As I said, I think it's just a combination of post 'olly's and the absolute dire weather we've been 'avin' up here since last Tuesday. Rains all day, then clear star filled sky every night.
Does me 'ed in.

[Miss Demeanour]

Bit of Christmas shopping ...that'll cheer you up 

But seriously  - shite weather , moany kids and stuck up pratts are never a good combination 

[GROWLER]

Bit of Christmas shopping ...that'll cheer you up 

 

I've just gone all depressed again now.

Forecast is a bit better up here for the next few days, so me'ill will be calling me tomorrow.

[Barman]

Anyhooo...

Was a beautiful day for walking around town yesterday...

Weather was great until we left the restaurant we'd retired to in Epsom and it pized. 

[Miss Demeanour]

You'll be taking the rain back to Cyprus with you I hope 

[GROWLER]

Yet another grey and drizzly day 'ere. 
 Stuff it, I'm headin' for me 'ills after anyway, waterproof clad like.

[Snoopy]

Damp and dismal here too. Good luck on the hill.

As for LR owners ~ I quite agree. Round here most of them do at least farm so have some justification for owning them ~ unlike my BiL who drives a socking great Jeep and lives in Camberley ..... Chelsea Tractor territory as I keep telling him. Yep I got a small LR (Freelander 3 door) but that was for a purpose not least being the conveyance of a largish family around North Wales and the transportation of disabled persons kit (MiL's and to a lesser degree mine) I do not belong to any clubs nor will I so slag 'em off all you like.







PS Took the boys to a livestock market recently and got waved straight into the buyer and sellers car park where I was surrounded by at least 120 LRs of various colours, ages and sizes. I felt that I "belonged" at last 

[GROWLER]

PS Took the boys to a livestock market recently and got waved straight into the buyer and sellers car park where I was surrounded by at least 120 LRs of various colours, ages and sizes. I felt that I "belonged" at last  

You got the customary and essential unshaven look, dodgy headware, camoflauge kecks, overly fat pie gut, look at all other 4wd owners of differing marques with total and utter disdain, and swear constantly then?