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July 30, 2007
Humility is ...
I love this quote:
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
- Laurence J. Peter.
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July 27, 2007
This Summer of 07
As if we need to be told, but it's good to confirm that this year rainfall is the worst in 200 years.
This summer of '07 will be remembered by many as the worst summer in living memory. Although recently The Independent annoyingly reminded us that there had been at least 3 other summers that had seen less sunlight, colder or wetter. However, to us young'uns, or people who had only been in England in less than a year ... coming from Australia nonetheless, this year summer is the worst summer in living memory.
I have lost count now how many time our skating plan was ruined by temperamental rain. While a large swathe of the country are flooded. To add insult to the injury, Europe is having a heatwave. Unbelievable, it seems that Europe is currently sending all the rain up here to England.
Having said that, I will stop whining about the weather. There is no point, and hopefully come August we will finally have our summer. I just want to put this dismal summer on record here in my blog, so I can always look back and confirm when someone says that it rains all the time in London.
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July 15, 2007
Assault
Arghh double bad. I just wrote a few paragraph about the mugging that happened to me on the weekend before I lost everything. This really highlight the problem of using a web browser as the main editing tool for your content management system.
Now I couldn't be bothered to re-write the whole thing again. Condensing 7 paragraph to 1: I was assaulted last Friday night, three of them, glass bottle smashed on my face, took everything, kicked me again on the face, police came, went to hospital and another detective showed up. Good attention by the police, doctors and the porters. Stupid IE as CMS editor. I'm fine just minor cuts & bruises on my face. Black eyes. Stupid IE as CMS editor.
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July 11, 2007
Worst summer in recent memory?
It's halfway through the summer, and apart from the 2 days on the Big Weekend, we haven't seen much of the sun. People here have been complaining about the 'freak' weather.
BBC tries to explain: "The reason for the recent wet weather has been the Jet Stream. This conveyor belt of strong winds, way up in the atmosphere, has steered a series of low pressure systems unusually far-south for this time of year. So instead of hitting Iceland as it would normally, they have cruised across the UK, depositing plenty of rain.
As a result, the 'Azores High', which often visits our shores at this time of year bringing pleasant summer sunshine, has been kept at bay.
So unless the Jet Stream buckles and heads back north again - we may have to get used to more of the same."
After having amazing May, June has been a complete let down and July is looking like a write off too. Ah well never mind, you just have to take what you get :)
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July 09, 2007
UK Big Weekend
It was a rather big last weekend in UK. Three major events happened at the same time. First there was the Tour de France where Sunny, Cora & I joined the estimated a million crowd to see of the start of Le Tour. We came rather early at Hyde Park and managed to secure a good position on Serpentine Rd.
Next of course was the Wimbledon finals, both on Saturday & Sunday. Then we had the British Formula One on Sunday where the local hopeful, Lewis Hamilton unfortunately lost to Raikkonen although he still managed to get to the podium, his ninth in ninth attempt. This kid is going to be huge.
Plus a huge night out at Clapham on Saturday night, last week was a superb week. Too bad about the weather but ;)
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