here its too wet to knit! Its like the UK turned into a giant river!
Well, not only the UK. 
hey mulene. … you I saw that… I watched bbc last week and OMG… London is flooding… Whats going on???:shrug:
Hi Aineepooh and Anna
Thanks very much, Aineepooh, for the kind remarks about the survival kit, I just hope it’s useful.
I’m sure Mulene can give you better details about the weather in London than I can, but it seems there was the mother of a hailstorm the other day in south London - a BBC newsreader got caught up in it and she said she had NEVER known anything like it happen before.
There are now thousands of people up and down the country who cannot go back to their homes because of horrendous flooding - four feet of water in some cases and householders had to be rescued by boat.
Hardest hit areas are just south of Doncaster, Yorkshire, where a dam threatened to break, (fortunately, that was prevented), Hull, on the east coast of Yorkshire, Worcester in the Midlands and King’s Lynn in Norfolk, where huge swathes of crops have been flooded.
It was very distressing to watch on the news yesterday a young couple, with three very small children, leave the shelter where they’d been staying, to go and live in one room for the foreseeable future. They left in a taxi, carrying two bin liners of donated clothing. That was all they had.
It will take at least three months for the houses to dry and a further three months for repairs to be carried out - meantime, some homes are still surrounded by stinking water.
Two months of rain fell in two days in Hull.
Sorry, Lieke, I don’t know what’s happening in the Netherlands - there’s been very little news here about flooding in Europe. Could you let us know what’s happening there?
On a lighter note, Anna, I’m not surprised you’ve had trouble learning Greek. I took one look at the alphabet and went into a total decline!:?? Wowsers, how do you get your head around THAT - may as well be Chinese.
A little boy, whose parents ran the apartments where I was staying, had a go at teaching me (I helped him with his English homework) - after 10 minutes, he gave me up as a bad job! The kid knew futile when he met it.
It must feel a bit isolating at times, being totally surrounded by people who speak a different language, and yes, I did find some Greek people to be a bit loud at times. How the hell anyone has the energy to argue at 7.30 am is beyond me.
It was nice to know that you like Britain. There are various webcams all around the UK and I’ll look out for some and send you details of them. Please don’t look for them just yet though; as Mulene says, the whole of the country looks like a river. It’s not only raining hard [B]every[/B] day, it’s also VERY dark - I have my kitchen light on each lunchtime and then again early evening, so that I can fix dinner.
Yours, going [COLOR=DarkOrange]rusty [COLOR=Black]at the edges.[/COLOR][/COLOR]
Ha–well, you’d think so. But I’ve found that there are some real similarities in the culture here and Southern U.S. culture. Maybe more than if I’d moved to another part of Europe. For example, no matter how much a family hates each other, they always get together for holidays. :mrgreen:
Thank goodness, our heat wave has broken and it’s in the low 80s with a great breeze. Maybe I will get to work on my sweater tonight! :cheering:
Well, I have to admit most of my activities are solitary ones. Reading, writing, computer games, and of course knitting. It really doesn’t bother me. I just miss my mother and father a lot. They were supposed to come in April, but my mother was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and decided to put off the trip until the late fall. That’s the plan, anyway.
The weather is strange everywhere, it seems. My parents say Tennessee is completely parched. They haven’t had any rain for about a month, and it rains quite a bit there normally. They are on “water restriction” and can’t water their lawn to keep the grass from dying.
Good luck with your weather! The bright side is that it sounds like good knitting weather!!