Early this morning I watched recordings of the Women’s Rugby World Cup semi-final matches between Canada and England, and between New Zealand and France – both much closer than heretofore in the competition, setting up a promise of an excellent final next week.
One of the consequences of moving from more than one home over the last decade and more, has been a plethora of pictures we have no room for in our current abode with its limited wall space, resulting in far too many stacked up in the library because we hadn’t the heart to abandon them. Today we bit the bullet and transported several boxes of them to Efford Recycling Centre’s Shop.
Perhaps reflecting our sadness at these losses, rain sheeted down, bouncing off the windscreen and the surface of rapidly filling pools as we queued for access to the facility. Having brought her new camera, Jackie had time to photograph the scene and e-mail her image to me.
The rest of the day was spent
watching more precipitation coursing down our windows.
This evening we dined at The Red Lion with Elizabeth, Jacqueline, and Danni. In pleasant company we enjoyed excellent food with friendly and efficient service. My main meal consisted of a plentiful well cooked mixed grill. Most of us enjoyed generous portions of sticky toffee pudding with cream or ice cream, and a very good bottle of Rioja was shared.
Be grateful for the rain, guys, our desert southwest is still in a years-long drought. My truck stays clean for weeks because of no rain. Please send some rain over here! ❤️🇬🇧
We are grateful, John, after our comparatively brief heatwave. I do hope you get some soon. Thanks very much.
We may get a little bit of rain during the winter but it’s usually not much. Lat summer’s monsoons managed to raise Lake Mead 15 inches, any gain is good!
Miserable day all round then. Except for the pleasant evening with your sisters and family. A lovely end to a wet and gloomy day.
Thank you so much, Sue. I hope your tooth feels better today.
I wish, I wish! Thank you, Derrick.
Not good X
Love how different the rain on the windows can look in each picture.
Thank you very much, Pat
Lots of lovely photos of wet glass. Very imaginative.
Thanks very much, John
Not much to say about a day like that. I hope that your weather improves soon.
We are in for 2 or 3 days more. Thanks very much, Tootlepedal
That’s not good. I hope that damage is minimal.
It hurts, I know. Even me, the doyen of decluttering, finds it hard to part with pictures and artworks. The decision was made for me recently when our garage flooded, and several were damaged beyond use. But I was able to recycle the frames, rescue a few, and find another wall space. There are still some in the garage, tempting fate, although now stacked higher up.
Yes, it is tough. Maybe you won’t have to finish it for a while. Thanks very much, Gwen
I would so love to borrow some of you rain and your dinner sounds lovely. Very sorry about the pictures though.
Thank you so much, Cindy. I still have the photo albums 🙂
How hard that must have been to get rid of those pictures! The day was suitably sad. Nice that you could go out for a tasty meal with sticky toffee pudding for dessert. (Never heard of sticky toffee pudding until I started reading your blog.)
Thanks very much, Laurie. Your lack of sticky toffee pudding surprised us since you and Cliffords like your cakes. 🙂
Sticky toffee pudding is not something I had ever heard until I started reading your blog. Not at all common in Maine. Sounds delicious, though.
Yes, I have run out of room for all of the old Photos in my smaller abode, but I am yet to ‘bite the bullet’, and the sun is shining, for a pleasant 24’C here today …
Thanks very much, Ivor
I very much like your pictures of the rain. Interesting finale next week !
Definitely 🙂 Thanks very much, Sylvie
Beautiful photos though 💧💦
Thank you iso much, Ribana
It’s hard to let go of old photos. I have several photo albums/scrapbooks from my parents in addtion to a few of my own, plus a couple of baskets. Your photos make me want to pay more attention to rainy windows. You’ve captured the coziness of being inside looking out at the rain.
Thank you so much, JoAnna
I have hardly any pictures of me when I was a child. I had to let them go when I moved to the US. Perhaps I was too young to see their importance. But, so far (knock on wood) everything that was important to me is in my mind, as vivid as was when my brain photographed the moment. Captured forever in my heart.
Sooner or later we have to let go. In your case it’s later, which is good!
Wise words, Bridget. Thank you very much.
As miserable as you might find the current weather, it is bliss for me to see these rainy scenes. While I love our bright blues sky, some heavy clouds and some ‘real’ rain would be wonderful to experience. I take my hat off to you both for finally parting with all sorts of items from your home … this is a v-e-r-y slow process here (with plenty of stops in between)!
Same here re parting with stuff, Anne, assisted somewhat by having to fit in the masses of baby things needed at the moment – everyone bringing loads of the stuff. :). We actually welcome the rain at the moment. Thanks very much.
We could do with some rain here were I live. Not easy to part with some item in our house that have so many memories attached to them!
Yes. We are having to learn, Aletta. Thank you very much.
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I always start to feel depressed on such days, especially when there is no light or sun … gloom and more gloom.
The countryside will be well and truly sodden
Yes. Thanks a lot, Sheree
“sticky toffee pudding with cream or ice cream”. Doesn’t life ask you to make some terrible choices?
That is funnier than you think, John. I asked for ice cream and got cream – no problem really. Thanks a lot.
A new camera for Jackie…Yay! 🙂
The rain photos are beautiful and artistic!
Yes, sometimes the weather matches our mood or it affects us and changes our mood.
‘Tis sad about the pictures…they always have memories within them.
So glad the day ended with a lovely dinner with lovely loved ones! ❤️
(((HUGS))) 🙂
PS…“When life throws you a rainy day, play in the puddles.” ~ Winnie the Pooh 🙂
Thank you so much, Carolyn X
I love raindrops on windowpanes. Brings back many memories. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been much rain here in New York this season.
Sorry about the pictures. All that rain, made for some lovely photos. I’m glad you braved the elements to go to dinner.
Here on the high plains of North America, that rain would be welcome, any time Well, any time with the exception of harvest times in now or July (winter wheat). We’ve had our first snowstorm here this past week, and I managed to have a fall on some ice (no harm done).
I empathize on the matter of the spare pictures that happen after a move. My front room looks like a Victorian art museum, with pictures hanging frame-to-frame. Unfortunately, they mostly are photos of family, making them impossible not to hang! I’m sure the clutter must make visitors claustrophobic! (Which might explain why so few come to visit! LOL!)
It looks like you have restored access to WP. Hope so. I thoroughly enjoy your posts, Derrick!
Seems your dreary day had a lovely ending, Derrick.
Thanks very much, Eugi
You’re welcome, Derrick.
It is hard to part with old photos, or anything like that. We leave a trail of memorabilia behind us as time passes.
I love the rainy day photos, Derrick and Jackie. We are solidly in our rainy season here now.
Thanks very much from us both, Lavinia
I still can’t bring myself to get rid of my plethora of pictures with no place in this house to hang them.
Thanks very much, Liz – as usual, you understand
You’re welcome, Derrick. 🙂
I had a dozen large oil paintings of flowers done by a friend’s mother, who was accomplished enough that some of her work hung in the state capitol, and her workshops always were full. Eventually I culled them down to three, which I had room to hang, but I took photos of those that went elsewhere.
One of the interesting things I’ve learned is that no matter what I get rid of — a painting or an egg beater — I end up not missing it at all. It’s allowed the culling process to go on a little at a time, without regret. Having hurricanes lurking about on a yearly basis does encourage the process.
Thanks very much, Linda. I still have small prints of many of the framed photographs in albums
Finally getting rid of kept too long items can be both sad and relieving at the same time. Glad you were able to act… 😉
Thanks very much, Maj
We have the same problem after 20 moves in 42 years. We did dispose of some on our move here but you just reminded us there’s still a trunk of pictures and photos in the garden shed.
Hope the rain eases soon.
Thanks very much, Chrissy. The price of a service life.
Yes it is but we wouldn’t change anything.
I like reading about your food 😊 Have you moved in and around the same place?
I had a house in France while renting a flat in London and having a room in my sister’s house near Southampton airport – I spent time in both countries. When Jackie and I reunited we rented various flats in London and Hampshire before finding our current home. Thanks very much, Lakshmi
Fabulous photos of a very rainy day. I feel the same way about old photos, Derrick.
Thanks very much, Dolly
Very encouraging – knowing that in spite of the wet weather, “In pleasant company [you] enjoyed excellent food with friendly and efficient service.”
Thanks very much, Jan
Those rain pictures are wonderful. Such a mood!! I feel it!
Thank you so much, Jodie
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It is minus 30 and the scene outside is a winter wonderland. Somehow, your rainy window scenes seem even chillier than our current weather.
Thanks very much, AnneMarie. Unseasonably mild temperatures here