Bring yer umbrellas

I havent used my brolly for 5 weeks until yesterday. Thats Syd. Dunno bout other places esp Melb.

It's been raining continuously for about 15 hours here in Canberra

Very wet here in St Ives- I think I'm going to get soggy on my delivery round. At least I don't have to water my garden or next door's for a few days.

Its been rainin that long in syd too but i'm glad cause it hasnt raind 4 a while the wild plants are thirsty.

We had a lot of rain on Saturday evening too. Luckily for us our shipping agents in London spun out of control and containerised our brollies and our car windscreen ice scrapers too - which incidentally has also come in handy here

Sorry, it's my fault.

We needed some rain to put the last of the fire out up here in the mountains, so I did a rain dance.

As ever, bit of a sorcerer's apprentice moment and now I can't work out how to turn it off.

Soz again.

Maybe you just need to stop dancing

Noooo we need more of it. Tank was about empty until yesterday morning but still not enough to fill it.

When we moved here in the 70s there was a set of brochures that they gave you with your visa: Housing in Australia, Suitable Clothing to bring, Education, Health. blah blah.

"In Australia you will rarely find the persistent drizzle that is so prevalent in Britain, here it rains briefly then the sun shines through again... " or words to that effect.

Presumably so you could get a clear view of the squadrons of pigs practicing aerobatics above.

Ok so the rain briefly bit is dumb but around here we rarely get the UK persistant drizzle in your face drizzle. It rains proper rain when it rains here.

75mil so far in the last 24hrs. Howling bloody gale last night until around 2am.

Its clear now. Almost

When my family moved over in the 60's my Mum was told she wouldnt need to bring her Hoover as there is no dust We ended up in Geelong, a bloody dustbowl.