We get them every week, or so it seems, bad weather warnings. Every storm has been given a name so now it’s become personal, we don’t lay the blame on the weather but on the named storm. I find it quite strange, maybe it’s just the powers that be apportioning blame so that they’re in clear, “it wasn’t us, it’s all the fault of ‘Storm Josephine’ (other names are available) honest”, but at least last weekend it was just a straight forward Amber Weather Warning. Right mini rant over. The subject here is another of those lonely trees out in the sometimes massive Fenland fields, this time it’s a Horse Chestnut that’s being smothered in Ivy and looks a bit stunted but I think it has been tickled by lightning at some point in the past. Believe me it’s hard life being a tree out on the Fen. Going back to the weather I still think Grandmother’s seaweed nailed to the shed door was more accurate than all the computers and algorithms the meteorologists have now.
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What a beauty! Can you just imagine being a tree and seeing all it sees every day? All the skies, clouds, winds and birds, not to mention the passers-by. I find that an interesting thought.
As for naming the storm, you had me chuckling. In North Carolina we get a lot of named storms – hurricanes to be specific. In my youth they were all named for girls but nowaday it’s more politically correct to name them from both genders. Being of the female gender, I never minded having hurricanes named for women. It gave us power, it seemed to me. I rather liked it. Giving them men’s names may be PC but I think it may have been jealousy. (wink)
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Linda, Even the French have got in on the act in naming storms, they seem to alternate with the Met Office. I’m working on the last in the series now but today it’s down to Windsor to return our daughter’s jack russell whose been staying with us while they are in Japan. Needless to say the weather is foul! The book is published by Unbound publishing next month and April in America. It’s called ‘Where are the boys who cut the hay’. I’ve got two more to illustrate at some point so I’m going to be busy! Best wishes to you and your family. John
PS cars are female so why not storms, my other half says they won’t turn up, or at least they’ll be late if they’re name after unreliable men!
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