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There Will Be Flood
Oct. 23rd, 2009 08:17 pmEven though I technically have the means to, I don't really keep up with the news from home very much. The most I know are general things about the rest of Britain - I think the three major news stories of the last couple of months are that the BNP are ruining the country by gaining inexplicable legitimacy, that the current Prime Minister is driving the vote more and more certainly back to conservative again at the next election, and that Psycho Mantis over here surprised everyone by correctly predicting the results of the lottery.
The most I hear about the local things around Inverurie - a town name which nobody here can say, but at least I didn't grow up a few miles away in Balquhain with a silent Q - is during the Skype calls with my parents during the weekend, where I'm told what's closed down, who's moved away and who's died. Sometimes there's more interesting news, like this photo I was sent yesterday:
That is not, as it might seem, a picture of a mile-wide lake - it is, as far as I can recognize, part of the golf club that I used to work on, with the road leading around it now transformed into a slipway. It seems there's been a small amount of rain, causing the river to burst its banks over an enormous area (most of that water should be under the bridge that you can see at the back left corner of the top picture of this article). I only saw it anything approaching as bad as that once - and when that happened there were still people out there playing golf.
Brighter and sunnier holiday photos will be up eventually - they're already online, I just have to go through the thousand or so that exist and pick out the highlights.
The most I hear about the local things around Inverurie - a town name which nobody here can say, but at least I didn't grow up a few miles away in Balquhain with a silent Q - is during the Skype calls with my parents during the weekend, where I'm told what's closed down, who's moved away and who's died. Sometimes there's more interesting news, like this photo I was sent yesterday:
That is not, as it might seem, a picture of a mile-wide lake - it is, as far as I can recognize, part of the golf club that I used to work on, with the road leading around it now transformed into a slipway. It seems there's been a small amount of rain, causing the river to burst its banks over an enormous area (most of that water should be under the bridge that you can see at the back left corner of the top picture of this article). I only saw it anything approaching as bad as that once - and when that happened there were still people out there playing golf.
Brighter and sunnier holiday photos will be up eventually - they're already online, I just have to go through the thousand or so that exist and pick out the highlights.
