Wet Wet Wet

Rain can be a little hard to find here in Perth so I don’t complain too much when we finally get a shower or two. Over the last couple of days we’ve had quite a bucketing.

I was surprised by the number of cyclists out this morning. When the weather turns wet I generally find that there are far fewer people riding to work but I saw quite a number pedalling away today. Which leads me to wonder about the various methods people use to get their cycling gear dry before the return trip.

There’s not too much that’s worse than having to pull on soaking wet cycling clothes at the end of the day.

When I used to work in the city I strung up a clothes line in the air conditioning room. It was a small room with massive air conditioners that serviced the entire building. It was so blowy in there that everything was bone dry in a matter of a few hours. I’ve heard of others using server rooms or anywhere else they can find with a bit of wind and hopefully some warmth.

These days, as you can see in the photo, I have a cheap drying rack with a pedestal fan blasting my stuff dry. Not quite as effective but it does the job.

Maybe I need to find an old clothes dryer for work.



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The Gap

It’s a gap. It’s meant to be a gap. It’s important that it remains a gap.

Have you noticed that when you’re driving in bad weather that some people are so convinced that their brakes will operate just as effectively as they do in the dry that they’re prepared to stake their lives on it? When the rain starts to bucket down, as it has in Perth over the last few days, I try to leave an extra gap between us and the car in front.

Strangely enough, a lot of drivers see that as an invitation to change lanes and slip into the gap. That’s not why it’s there. I don’t want to drive bumper to bumper while a strong cold front is lashing the city with rain and strong winds. I know that slowing down and leaving extra space between vehicles means that I’ll arrive where I’m going a little later but that’s fine by me. The gap’s there because I think keeping my family safe on the roads is more important than arriving at my destination a couple of minutes earlier.



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Rain, Rain Go Away

TinRoof.jpgIt’s a wet day in Perth and I’m enjoying the rain at the moment. It’s lovely to see everything looking fresh and clean, washed by the rain.

Mind you, when I hear and see the rain I’m also a little saddened. It makes me remember one of the nights I spent in Haiti recently. We were in our hotel watching rain fall across the city of Port-au-Prince. It was nice for us but our minds turned to the hundreds of thousands of Haitian families, trying to sleep in their one room homes with leaking tin rooves.

We were told how they just keep trying to find a dry corner to get some protection from the weather. Many of their homes are too small for the entire family to sleep at one time so they sleep in shifts. You can imagine how much harder it is when the rain starts falling.

It’s hard to even begin to contemplate avoiding rain all night then having to get up the next day for work; if you have any work to go to.

I’m very much looking forward to Compassion Day on the 15th of May when we can make a difference for some of those people.



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Who'll stop the rain?

Have you seen that authorities in Beijing have successfully managed to stop light rainfall in experiments aimed at guaranteeing a dry opening ceremony for the Olympic Games?

There’s no roof on the showpiece Bird’s Nest stadium, so the Beijing Meteorological Bureau has been given the job of developing methods of preventing wet weather spoiling the spectacular opening to the Games on the evening of the 8th of August.

I wonder what was going through the minds of those at the bureau when they were first told that they needed to not only forecast the weather but control it. They must have thought it was quite a joke until they realised the authorities were deadly serious.

All I can say is that I they do have any rain that they don’t want, they’re welcome to send it our way.



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