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[hathycol]

So, I woke up before my alarm and noticed with some alarm the levels of the light outside. "No," I thought to myself. "That's just the streetlights. It's fine. Nowhere near dawn yet."

Then I heard someone go downstairs. "No," I thought to myself. "That's just Katie going down to the loo. Can't be Sarah going for her shower."

I hear water running. "See, she's just washing her hands."

The extractor fans kicks in. "No. She's just being really thorough washing her hands."

My alarm goes off, and I automatically thwack it. "That wasn't my alarm call," I think to myself determindly, despite the fact I was actually now quite awake. "That was just a phone call that I ignored."

Then my snooze went off and I reluctantly hauled myself out of bed. Fnargle. I bloody hate having a body that responds to noise at around the time it's meant to get up. Secondary and internal alarm clock, fine, but I NEED those extra twenty minutes of sleep!

In other news, I am highly amused by the response of the South to the high storms. Speaking as a northerner currently resident on the coastline of Scotland, STFU N00BS. This kind of thing happens anywhere else then it's maybe the fourth thing down on the news, and that's only if all the power goes and someone dies. If it's in the South-East then it's all RUN FOR THE HILLS AND SAVE YOURSELF AND DEAR LORD THE APOCALYPSE IS NIGH whereas where I'm from, we give into the elements and put a jumper over our t-shirts, because we're just that hard.

(Although saying that I'm lurking in the library to avoid the torrential rainfall we have going on here too, but that's by the by. SHHH.)

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[balthaser.livejournal.com]

I fully agree about the whole it's the end of the world if something happens in the south.

There was something last year but I can't remember what it was, see, it obviously wasn't terrible. whatever it was.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Exactly! The floods over the summer were 'terrible' when they wiped out most of Hull and Sheffield, but when about an inch of water crept through Oxford and the Thames threatened to maybe flood a bit all the people in the weather centre ran around in circles screaming "OH GOD BUY TINNED GOODS AND REPENT YE SINNERS!"

... yes, this is resentment that Scotland is barely mentioned on the BBC weather map and hey ho, we get all the interesting weather. It's snowing just up the coast from us, but no, it's all "SLIGHT WINDS IN LONDON!"

And I'm calm.

[balthaser.livejournal.com]

Mmm, it's windy here, and it's been raining most of the day (hurrah for using it as an excuse not to go to lectures...)
But the rain was not horizontal and there was one flash of lightening and two thunderclaps.
That is not bad.
Silly southerners

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

They're all just wusses. Wander around in a t-shirt to make a point.

[hyrnetanga.livejournal.com]

YES! YES! EXACTLY WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO SAY!

I was in Geneva when most of Hull was underwater last summer, but I heard about it through facebook (seriously people I know were posting photos of vans floating down the street and everything!) and the emails I was getting from uni for months updating everyone on which areas of the campus were still closed due to flood damage, but nothing made even national news (my family informed me that it was shown on the north west's local news, despite being on the other side of the country because "unlike the southerners we actually think a whole city being underwater is newsworthy even when it's not London"). And yet several weeks later when Hull was still underwater and still not being mentioned, a few puddles in Oxford made the SWISS FREE PAPERS! I kid you not!

IIRC it was the same with the petrol crisis. The rest of the country was without a petrol supply for weeks and the government said "Meh. Deal with it." And when they blockaded Greater London's supply they declared it a national emergency and an agreement was reached in about 2 days!

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

I am officially going to start speaking in an aggressively Northern voice. I'm so flipping fed up of the whole thing, I really am. (Even if Hull is Wrong Side F'T'Pennines and all that. :-P)

[hyrnetanga.livejournal.com]

"but when about an inch of water crept through Oxford and the Thames threatened to maybe flood a bit all the people in the weather centre ran around in circles screaming "OH GOD BUY TINNED GOODS AND REPENT YE SINNERS!"

Aww! A whole inch of water! Poor things! One of the roads in Newburgh used to flood a couple of feet about 10 times a year until they finally put decent drains in, but it was such a common occurrence I doubt the news even reached Parbold. You just went the other way when it was too deep to drive through.

[sunlightdances.livejournal.com]

It's just the local news and national news going OH MY GOD THERE WERE WAVES OR SOMETHING! It's not normal people like me. Then again, if the internet went down, I'd be flailing and wailing.

[/bizarre onset of southern pride]

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the sanity. Seriously, though, this annoys me something rotten. WHY is there a North of England correspondant as though it's a foreign country, but no South of England correspondant? WHY is Scotland about three inches big on the weather map? WHY the hysteria about the Olympics that are happening in four years but nothing about the upcoming Glasgow Commonwealth Games, or the Liverpool Capital of Culture 2008?

I am bitter against the institutions. The people - such as yourself - have consistently proved to be lovely which is probably the only reason I haven't declared Northern independence and popped a checkpoint somewhere near Crewe.

[sunlightdances.livejournal.com]

[nods vehemently] I agree on all counts.

And am much shamed to say that I didn't even know about the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. I mean I barely know what day it is, but still. Most people know those things.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

The Glasgow Games weren't really in the national news, possibly because it casts the new Scottish government in a good light. I mean, I despise the Nats (Scottish National Party, VILE people, can't believe they won) but come on, this was a good move by them.

[balthaser.livejournal.com]

I did watch an episode of location, location, location were they were house hunting in Liverpool and described bits of it as an up and coming area as well as being some sortof up and coming place that has lots going for it.
I lolled as the budget was like £90,000


err.. I do have better things to do that watch the telly in the daytime...

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

I watch Diagnosis Murder in the daytime. I have no shame, don't worry.

[balthaser.livejournal.com]

I watched murder she wrote today, and all I could think of was bedknobs and broomsticks, and the fact that as it's a to be continued I shall have to watch it tomorrow.
I am turning into my mother, when I went home last I quite happily sat and watched a hallmark movie with her.

[hyrnetanga.livejournal.com]

Ditto. If they're going to treat us like we're a foreign country they could at least give us a devolved government like Scotland/Wales/NI.

I didn't know about Glasgow either! And I do check the news back home, they must really have been keeping it quiet! Of course I did know about Liverpool, but I don't remember that being on national news either.

[original-hell.livejournal.com]

<3 i love you so much. i don't even notice storms, they're just part of daily life at wonderful sunny huddersfield...

i loved your tale of waking-woe, though, because me and the bf KEEP DOING THAT. and it's never long enough to do anything really fun and then i'm really tired all day. and then we go to bed late anyway, because ross noble is funny :)
*hug*

[derfel-cadarn.livejournal.com]

Aye, northerners know how to deal with this sort of thing, you swim home to your longhouses through an icy lake and sacrifice a bull to appease the weather gods, admit it.

although I work outdoors, so I'm allowed to moan about the storms.


Hi, I'm andy btw :P

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Nah, that's in the Shetland Isles. I live in the rather more genteel St Andrews where we get the butcher to sacrifice our bull, and then we go to our centrally-heated longhouses and drink Pimms. Or something like that.

Working outside is fine to moan, it's the hysterical nature of it that annoys me. "OH DEAR GOD STAY INDOORS AND PRAY FOR YOUR SOULS." Please. I only get to miss work if it's so cold and snowy that a yeti has eaten my car and wolves are prowling around my house looking hungry.

[derfel-cadarn.livejournal.com]

To be fair, the yeti and wolves thing happens alot up there.

Funny enough, when it gets horrible at work we actually do retreat into a roundhouse (alas, no central heating.)

[hannahbassill.livejournal.com]

Yea verily and forsooth. Gotta love the roundhouse with the fire and the stove stacked up with logs when it's pissing it down outside. Cloaks are good but not that waterproof lol. x