Expedition Canada

Damp Squib Thu Oct 28th Nick and I settled down to watch the F1Q My son, pictured right, says I talk to much about the weather.  Because he's now a Canadian citizen he seems to have forgotten that Brits like to talk about the weather; but advice headed.  Suffice it to say it has been damp, but hardly explosive. Nick was over on the Coast this weekend but as he was 'out Friday night' was quite happy to watch the F1 Qualifying with me on Saturday afternoon.  It was clearly quite riveting - we both slept through it.  Sunday morning we'd just finished breakfast when a visitor popped by.  We have no idea how it got in, unless when Fred got up to let Jack out at dark o'clock it slipped into the mud room unnoticed.  After about 5 minutes flying up to all the open doors it headed off out.  Big fella, but not sure what type of bat it was. After the excitement of the breakfast visitor and with Fred immersed in final house removals and  furniture shipping li...

Mushrooming with Shaggy Sat Oct 23rd All the Maple varieties are also becoming more colourful Heat Domes, Atmospheric Rivers and now Weather Bomb/Bomb Cyclone.  Descriptions of weather phenomena seem to be getting increasingly more colourful.  The latter is the latest due to arrive on these shores. Reports are suggesting there could be up to 2ft of rain and 8ft of rain in parts of the west coast North America.    It's being welcomed in parts of Northern California where some forest fires are still burning. In old speak, a 'low' would have developed mid-pacific followed by rapid drop in pressure of 24 millibars or more which is defined as a 'bomb cyclone'.   Bring back the stick on felt clouds to the weather forecast I say.  Saturday morning was just drizzle, the bomb had not yet detonated. We are in the black circle on the weather chart. We are in the circle The Quins V Bath rugby game was on as I started to write this.  Bath didn't win, but ...