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Well as we seem to be having a monsoon across the country at mo it got me thinking. Am i the only person who no longer bothers to possess an umbrella. I find them a pain especially when the wind blows them inside out and when i put it down somewhere then forget to pick it up. They are pesky little contraptions. I have over the years instead invested in a good winter coat with a hood if i'm going somewhere special and don't want my hair to get wet or makeup to run. Other than that getting wet and windswept is no big deal to me.
And instead of carrying an umbrella in my car i carry one of those luminous yellow jackets in the boot. It makes me look like a copper whenever i've had to wear it. It makes me feel everso important.

I gave my umbrella away a couple of years back. Never used it really. I wear a hat.

I have a great habit of taking an umbrella to work, forgetting to take it home, so using another the following day. I now have no umbrellas at home, and a million at work. Genius.

Do you live at some kind of umbrella museum?

I don't want to be a bitter Scot, but this weather you're currently not enjoying has been pelting down up here for weeks. It didn't particularly get a mention in the first and second week in January when I was trudging the 3 miles to and from my new office, but the minute the weather system moved south it was all Carol Kirkwood could talk about.

On the subject of brollies, no I don't bother carrying one. The only people who do are stupid bloody women who assume that a 3ft diameter spiky-edged weapon is perfectly safe to blunder down the street with, held at eye level to me.

Selfish cows.

Gavin Scott wrote:On the subject of brollies, no I don't bother carrying one. The only people who do are stupid bloody women who assume that a 3ft diameter spiky-edged weapon is perfectly safe to blunder down the street with, held at eye level to me.

That is exactly the conversation me and a colleague were having yesterday. For me the worst bit isn't rain from above, it's spash back from below. Wet legs, not nice.

Walking down the street in Japan they've really got the hang of the old umbrella dance as they pass people. It's really rather hard to get poked in the eye.

Now where I work, there are a LOT of squelchy paving slabs. That's REALLY annoying because it's a gamble with every step.

I've just typed my postcode into BBC Weather for the five day forcast. Much to my amusement/depression, the next five days all have a big fat rain symbol.

Gavin Scott wrote:I don't want to be a bitter Scot, but this weather you're currently not enjoying has been pelting down up here for weeks. It didn't particularly get a mention in the first and second week in January when I was trudging the 3 miles to and from my new office, but the minute the weather system moved south it was all Carol Kirkwood could talk about.

On the subject of brollies, no I don't bother carrying one. The only people who do are stupid bloody women who assume that a 3ft diameter spiky-edged weapon is perfectly safe to blunder down the street with, held at eye level to me.

Selfish cows.

but you scots are used to wet weather. There always seems to be a raincloud and cold breeze over scotland.