The A22 is still closed for 3 miles and a further road off it is now closed as workmen with pumps, pipes and sandbags etc try to contain the stream occupying it. Another few weeks, I reckon. Also the water level at this place is now threatening the roads on both sides.

Back at work after six days of feeling distinctly under par (and a cancelled trip to London for a wedding, boo hoo). Can anyone persuade me of the benefits of being in the office working through a MASSIVE inbox on a beautiful spring day like today?

Reduced risk of early hayfever?

(pen) Pays the bills.

[penelope] Reduced risk of being mistaken for Lindsey Lohan and being crushed by a mob of crazed paparazzi?

I have a game in the Google Play store, and it's ad-supported so it's FREE!

Floored!

[Giertrud] Cool. I went over for a peek, but will leave it for others to download and play.
In other news... it's another warm and sunny day here in NL. If my Fashion Phenology project is to be relied upon as an indicator of seasonal drift and an early spring, then yesterday's spotting of a woman wearing a pair of white jeans, and today's observation of a student in teeshirt, shorts and sneakers on campus must be recorded. And here is as good a place as any. Have any other Crescenters seen spurious signs of spring?

As of yesterday afternoon, my lawns have stripes.

There's been a strange yellow ball in the sky a lot of the time in the past few days.

[Phil, Raak] This...means something.

Yellow balls cause stripes?

The pea & honey recipes have been splendid of late. Witty and clever. And they rhyme and scan too. Coo.

[Phil] Yesyesyes, but were UFOs involved?

[Stevie] No, I identified them all as alien spaceships.

(pen, penpenult.) It is spring. Must be - there was a frost here last night but now it's a nice 17°C.

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2014/03/13/the-predictive-results-for-typing-county-into-google/

[Giertrud]
1. Do you always believe what The Poke Says?
2. The only people who type '[county] is ...' into Google are the thickos who don't know anything anyway
3. It's unscientific.
4. Get orf my laaand.
5. Google doesn't cover Wales.

I have stopped wearing bicycle goggles to keep the cold wind out of my eyes, and started wearing them to keep the insects out of my eyes.

(pen) re no. 5 - Thank God for that. (from the Ghetto)
(Giertrud) There y'are - we're the wittiest nation on earth.
(Raak) But does the cold night air know this?