Sad, isn’t it?

And no, I didn’t get your implication.

Kismet Hardy, I hear the Rah God is busy in Africa.

Off to Womad tomorrow. It’s not going to rain in Wiltshire. The Rah God told me. Unless Homer Simpson’s effigy washes off, the pagans tell me, it’ll keep raining everywhere else

I hope the media frenzy makes people realise how lucky they are compared to other countries, but given the Southern English penchant for selfpity, its a slow one.

By the way, I ‘m really disappointed no-one’s mentioned Dr. Foster. Apparently he went to Gloucester in a shower of rain and stepped in a puddle right up to his middle.

As for southern England, be it ‘bland’, although I think your nuts in saying that in terms of weather, I think calm and stability is what people look for don’t they?
Ha!

Race crap, there are plenty of asians/blacks/yellow people in gloucester, she was probably in some remote village in gloucestershire.

What a great place to be doing ‘reporting’!

Yes, there is still no running water, and people are depending on bowsers (currently 900 across the county), these run out as quickly as they arrive.

But, these are not for drinking before boiled. I’m not sure where they come from, although someone did mention another part of the river seven).

For, drinking water, people are relying on the truck loads that decend on supermarket car parks.
You might be lucky and get great tasting mineral water, or you could be stuck with the one heavily riddled with harsh minerals, (ok, it’s not that bad-can hardly argue the taste in this moment!).

Just read a few more posts, too many posts and my eyes glaze over- I see the surprise over race has already been covered.

And oh yeah, it’s raining again today- can collect some ‘flushing’ water.

Jane austen on human empathy: “How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!”

And actually in the blandness maybe there is a point…

Britain, especially Southern England is actually quite a boring (as well as prosperous) place. Its obessession with the weather simply refelcts how bland the weather normally is by world standards. We don’t even have the theoretical possibility of savage spiders and volcanoes either.

By the way Jagdeep your comment in No. 9 – is way off Urmee is a she as you can see in the Guardian site. I think your comment in no 9 is a very unlucky guess based on surname prejuidice! (Mind you, apart from Ghenghis and Kubla, the first six Khans I can think of are sportsmen and my fifth best mate)

At the end of the day floods don’t discriminate between black and white, rich and poor, north and south. I’m from Wolverhampton and went to uni at Sheffield. I was in tears when I saw that great city under water. That was three weeks ago. Same story, different place. Same misery!

Now how come you didn’t mention us: is it your northern bias, your eastern bias or your southern bias? Or is it just cause we is white?

Who’s worried about it? It’s just an observation isn’t it? No one has to make a crisis out of it… the main issue is still the floods.