Glomming around

"neither rain nor snow nor glom of nit can stay these messengers abot their duty"...*

Herodotus' original words were "neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" but we feel that Terry Pratchett's version has a certain catchy and more memorable quality ....Anyway, it's certainly rainy and definitely glommy, but are we stayed? Nope. We have the snugly raincoats and hoodies, we're swift, and we're abot our duty ...

Duped!

We are feeling duped!

We had just begun to get used to doing a bit of outdoor sunbathing

and naked frolicking on walks.

And now today we are back to wearing raincoats on walks

and snuggling under fleeces indoors to keep warm 

because the Madwoman is too 

tight to turn the heating back on.

Hmmph

It's raining again today.

So guess what we have planned?

The Madwoman thinks we will be putting on raincoats and going out later. 

Ha!

We're quite comfortable thank you (and dry) 

So we don't think so ...

 

Further education

We furthered our education at the Open Air Museum again today:

Sharpe's Rifles this time.

The Madwoman kept us away from them while they were doing the noisy stuff with the guns. We're not bothered about bangs and fireworks and stuff, but the Madwoman said she'd like to keep it that way, so we humoured her.

Even at a distance it all looked very impressive. The trumpeter sounded very professional too and stirred our blood. We managed to contain our inner dogs of war and didn't join in with a group howl, although it was tempting.

Angel did find a nice muddy patch though, and took full advantage of the Madwoman's distraction to get down and dirty wippitt-style.

Her raincoat (yes, it's still pouring with rain here) is now brown and she has matching muddy eyebrows and ears too. 

The Madwoman says we should add a link to the Open Air Museum in case you want to visit too. Sharpe's Rifles are there all weekend, and there's other stuff happening on other weekends.

So here it is:

Chiltern Open Air Museum 

Where's the summer?

Dressed for wet weather!

There's been precious little summer weather lately.

It's been so wet that on some days we've even had to put our raincoats on.

If this keeps up we'll need flippers and snorkels too.

Hope all you wippitts that don't live at the top of a hill like we do

are coping with all this weather we're having.