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a hot day in london-relatively speaking
1 Junlondon 1.23pm 26C sunny saturday 2019 virgin lounge haymarket.
today is a hot day , relatively speaking. it might turn out to be the hottest day of the year so far. well, we are in summer now, seeing that 1 june is the start of summer. its all very nice, though i am not one of those who look forward to a hot day. that is why i am here now, indoors in airconditioned comfort in the virgin lounge, rather than outside enjoying this so called hot weather.
there are people in the uk who dont like cold and want hottest days like these but i have been living in malaysia, where i was born, and i know hot days are not pleasant at all. i used to like them when i first came to london years ago, as i was not used to the cold, but now i have acclimatised so well, that i dread those hot days in malaysia. i sometimes wonder why those who are born here, have not acclimatised themselves to like the cold weather. after all, i have done so, and got to like the cold weather here. there is a caveat, i noticed i like the weather in london, and generally south england. i have seen what it is in scotland and the north, and i am sure i wont like that. my advise to those who feel the cold, come down south to retire instead of going abroad.
perhaps it is not so much the cold but the lack of sunshine. many have convinced themselves that they are depressed because they dont see the sun often enough living here. they might come to realise when they do go off to live in spain, or some other place with sunshine that their depression follows them there and it is not the lack of sunshine that is the cause but something else altogether.
this is quite pretty, growing in the courtyard , but i dont know what it is called. added. i googled the image, and it is called clementis vyvyan pennell
where have the sunshine gone over france?
20 Janlondon 12.23pm 5.6C rain saturday 2018 virgin lounge
i have a chance to see the guardian since it took on tabloid form. they have a copy in the virgin lounge. and i read an article in there today saying north west europe has got the darkest december since records began.
i recently had a comment from francesays asking in a comment on my blogpost where is winter hiding. and it seems this confirms her impression. but as to why, nobody knows…lille in france got 2hrs 42mins of sunshine in the first half of jan.usually 61.4hrs average for jan. so they lost 30hrs for the first half of jan. south france like bordeaux and marseille got 10.3hrs and 26.9hrs respectively for the first half of jan. compared to monthly averages of 96 and 92.5. average sunshine in london is 62hrs.
but no mention of how much london got for the first half of jan. i think we may have got more than them. just these last 5 days i have woken to a bright sunshiny morning. today is raining though. but no one here think of london as sunny , so we hardly notice if there is no sunshine, but do notice if a morning is sunny. it comes as such a surprise.
but but we should count ourselves lucky, moscow got only 6mins of sunshine in the whole of december. haha. i got a chance to compare the print size of the guardian with the times, which has been a tabloid for some time. they are about the same size really. both very small. but maybe it is just me. it is like a deaf person who complains that everyone is mumbling and speaking softly. haha. i am well aware i maybe turning into that person and everything is so small in print. hehe. ah well, we all go old really. the important thing is not to let it bother you. i dont mind if it is getting smaller. i can still read it with my glasses so that is ok. the hearing is the one that is more difficult to handle. people get a bit bored with you if u keep telling them to repeat themselves. so i dont, and i find i gradually dont talk very much either. now you know why old people dont talk very much. in their head they are most probably having a lively discussion with themselves but you will never hear of it.
a lovely morning today
20 Feblondon 11.09am 12.7C ! sunny 2017 monday
such a lovely morning today. blue sky and sunshine. and such high temperature for feb. and it has not even peaked yet.
it was so nice i could not resist dashing out and taking some pictures of the daffodils that have bloomed a few days previously. its very early this year.
3.53pm 15.6C but cloudy. i read a expat who blogs from penang, and he was saying he is going to move to chiangmai, being rather disillusioned by penang as a place to spend his expat years. and someone wrote in a comment saying is it possible he is bored , because she says she can use herself as a example. she mentioned her situation , that she and her husband lives in penang and are finding it very difficult to fill their days to stop getting bored. this is the first time i read of an expat willing to acknowledge that they are bored with it. everyone up to this point have never acknowledged the elephant in the room. that being an expat can be very boring. it seems rather ungrateful somehow, that you come to live in a country that have all this sunshine, and culture and festivities and smiling faces everywhere to admit that you are bored with it all. i can understand why not many will want to admit it to themselves, nevermind telling others. it is not often acknowledged that small town life , and life in small countries or developing countries can be very boring. people are too busy working to live, just to survive , to bother to provide entertainment for people like the expats who got lots of time and money on their hands always looking out for novel things to do or see or experience. and flitting from one swiftly to another not wanting to linger longer to savour that experience, but to move on to get their fix of the next one.
it makes me wonder if that is the biggest thing that being an expat have to deal with. boredom. after the intial excitement and novelty of their new place, it is all too easy to get to the end of things to do and see without it repeating the cycle.
here in london, there are lots of things going on. so i doubt one can get bored.
even though it is easy to get bored doing the same thing over and over again, but there is so much variety of entertainment here in london, you can skip along to the next attraction and can go through a big long cycle of things to do before u need to come back to the starting point. and who knows along the way u find things that u are always interested in and so can latch onto it to keep boredom at bay. and there are many one offs, events that happen once only, or come round once a year, that gives some light relief. often times two events clash, and you have to decide. we are spoilt for choice in london.
well just as an example of a once a year event, yesterday i went to the olympia cruise show. i got given to me free entry tickets for two by the daily mail who are sponsoring the show.
i have been on a cruise before, a gay one, leaving from fort lauderdale and going round the islands in the caribbean, and find i am not really into them. these are full of gay men, and you would think i should like them, but even so, i dont, so i doubt ordinary cruises that cater to straights will be any better. well, seeing it is free entry i just thought it might be amusing to go see what they have to offer.
waiting for the bus back i got chatting to an indian lady who had just left the venue. she was carrying a churchill bag, it is a company that specialise in protected retirement living. she said she was given it ,its quite a nice bag, and not really looking to join one. she told me she had been to quite a lot of cruises, mostly round the arabian coast. as she has the time now having retired. i guess these cruises appeal to old people who have time on their hands and who like to have things organised and accommodation and food taken care of. i can see how that would appeal to many of them.
murder
8 Janlondon
We are all horrified at what happen in paris, and yet, we seem to revel in murder mysteries too.
later today at 9pm is the start of a new series of ‘death in paradise‘ murders. From the synopsis it seems it is the death of someone in a seance, in a locked room and everyone was holding hands, so who did it? my guess would be either of the two on each side of the victim who are holding the hands of the victim. it would be interesting to see how it is solved. we can see why we like these kinds of exercise. the gore is much reduced, there is hardly any blood which in real life would make the murder scene really horrific.
why do we like these kinds of things i wonder??? even me, who dont really like to read detective murder mysteries in novels, but i find this tv program quite fascinating, especially because it is set in the caribbean and we get all this sunshine when our real world now is winter.
i wonder if others living in the tropics like it as much because to them the sunshine is not such a draw.
i know for sure i wont be able to guess who did it so the revelation is doubly enjoyable because it would come as a surprise to me.
a lovely day
4 Auglondon monday 2014