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The epitome of optimism?
Here I am, sitting in my tiny living room listening to the patter of raindrops. I look out of the window at a grey Yorkshire sky, cloud troubled and missing any sign of the sun. I wonder if the weather will clear up any time soon, or if I need to bite the bullet and walk my dog in the constant downpour. And then......
I hear an entirely incongruous sound: the tinkling tune of an Ice-cream van, touting for trade, calling out with its music to the local children in the hope they'll buy Iced creams and lollies. Is that the epitome of optimism? Or merely desperation? |
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edit to add: we have hot rain in Ohio all the time, so...I was thinking maybe other peoples are subjected to this unnatural atmospheric conundrum |
...Yes, but it's a hot rain...
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*shakes fist* 'Coz if you are... |
umm....Not hot rain......just rainy rain. Not freezing...but definately coat and hat weather. Mind you, I shouldn't be surprised. I've known our Icecream vans venture out when in sleet.
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...well, you know. *ahem* BASE human Need! croquet, anyone?* *said in deference of our Brit superiors..tut, tut. |
I guess if Seattleites can have "dry" rain, Ohio can have "hot" rain.
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What better time to drive the tinkling bells than when the grubby little urchins are housebound? ;)
If you ever get a chance to talk to the sugar pusher, ask him how he makes out in nasty weather. I've a feeling that the bells erase any weather thoughts in the kids heads. After all, they're programmed to crave at the sound of the bells, like Pavlov's dogs. That coupled with Mom, being couped up in the house with the darlings, might be quicker to relent to their whining, than if they were begging from the yard. |
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But if you really must know I was making an oblique reference to the oft quoted "but it's a dry heat" So, how *are* things in the gutter? |
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The facts: He's had ice cream at home and once from the shop. He knows that the vehicle which drives around mutilating various melodies is called an "ice cream truck" He has a little "ice cream truck" truck He does not know that the ice cream truck actually has any ice cream aboard I'd prefer to keep it that way. ;) |
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Yep. That she is. We also used to have a little bottle of Holy water that gran brought back from Lourdes....Mum used to say she'd be able to tell if I was lying because the water would bubble :P
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