Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Confused

After almost half a year of living in the UK, and almost half a year of near daily rain, I'm really confused as to why most people appear to have and use laundry drying racks in their yards.
I understand the concept of outdoor drying racks but what's the point of putting out wet clothes to dry in the rain?  Yes, yes, I'm sure people usually hang their wet clothes outside when it's not raining, but I can pretty much guarantee that before the laundry gets taken in, the weather is bound to do this:

 
Beautiful but not really conducive to laundry drying.  Perhaps there is a business opportunity awaiting in selling dryers in Great Britain.


Wednesday, July 4, 2012

There's Something Wrong with This Picture

It's currently 'summer' in the United Kingdom and winter in Australia.  It's also currently the middle of the afternoon in the United Kingdom and the late evening on the west coast of Australia.  But the weather looks like this:




There's definitely something wrong with this picture.  Currently missing the sunshine but loving the green everywhere.  I just can't win, can I?