Re: The Weather Thread Part 2.

[cosmictanya]

Context was being provided just at the moment you demanded it.

[Nightjar]

Yeah, thanks for sharing.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

What a lovely sunny day.

[Guest]

Misty...

[Nik]

Somewhat overcast after a night of surprisingly strong winds & rain. I probably should go out for a walk, but I can't be bothered.

[Fangirl Three]

There were some impressively squally showers to contend with on the motorways - coming over Shap, then again near Blackpool, again on the last bit of the M6 and then a really violent one after Northampton.

[cosmictanya]

Is the way forward clear and pointing north of the border?

[Fangirl Three]

It certainly is. The only issue is the implementation - if I want to move in the next year the financials are uncertain, whereas at the opposite extreme if I could put up with my current situation for 5 years I could, at the end of that time, move north, put my feet up and spend the rest of my life painting saltires on my toenails if I so desired.

[cosmictanya]

Well, what a dilemma. Ideally you want to be up there before and during the fight for liberty so you're on the right side of history, and the right side of the border to safeguard your human rights.

If you leave it until after, they might treat you the same way the UK is looking forward to treating anyone who has the temerity to be a rootless cosmopolitan who isn't in total agreement with a small cabal of evildoers. That is, as welcome as an erection in a convent, with an easily motivated raging mob of useful idiots ready to point that out in between episodes of mouth foaming.

As someone who moved to a foreign country, and moved out of it, my tuppence worth is that there's danger in thinking too deeply about it all. I made both decisions on the spur of the moment (and the first was literally a coin toss, while stoned, between Athens and Lisbon), and despite all the grief and misfortune and financial complications that resulted, there was enough vitality and good fun in both that I don't fundamentally regret either decision.

[Fangirl Three]

I wonder, would it be presumptuous to start a separate thread so I can ramble about my moving plans without holding up discussion of the weather etc.

[cosmictanya]

Once again, one of my favourite ever comments in The Guardian has appeared under an article...

Instead of A Place In The Sun, a revamped version entitled A Place In The Sh*t sees sunburned British pensioners, with faces like thunder, being shown around the bedsits and caravans they can afford back home, when the penny drops that without a firm job offer and a language fluency certificate, a 90 day per year maximum for a third country citizen applies both ways.

[cosmictanya]

I wonder, would it be presumptuous to start a separate thread so I can ramble about my moving plans without holding up discussion of the weather etc.

Sorry. I know you already set up such a thread. Happy to take this there.

[Fangirl Three]

Gosh, I'm getting old, I forgot that I'd already started a special thread.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Gales and rain.

[Fangirl Three]

Quite blowy here but not raining, yet.

[Nightjar]

It has become incredibly windy here.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Nothing but wind and rain all day.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

[The Call of the Wendigo]

Siling it down.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

And more gales.

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