Touchdown!
Aug. 5th, 2009 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyAccording to my colleague Brian (an amateur pilot), in the air, rain fronts look like walls, but rain showers are a different matter: they're like silver trees in a cloud forest (he explained to me once in an unexpected burst of lyricism), and one can just fly around them.
There was a rain front on its way this morning when I went out to buy the paper. I could see the wall of it coming across the bay and up the hill as I walked home. So I had a race against the rain; as I shut the door behind me, the first drops hit the roof. So that was a pleasingly Indiana Jones-style start to the day.
I was going to see the new Harry Potter film this weekend but reading the paper just now I've discovered that I can't: the cinema - with its lovely Art Deco interior - burnt down yesterday morning. I was in town yesterday several hours after the fire and just around the corner from the cinema and I didn't notice anything. Not even any lingering smoke.
Finally - and this is likely to make sense only to my fellow Australians - I heard Mark Holden on the radio yesterday, ruling out a return to the Australian Idol judging panel because he's nearly finished his articles. His articles! Mark Holden is a lawyer! What sort of dire legal straits would you be in if you needed Mark 'Touchdown!' Holden to get you out of trouble?
There was a rain front on its way this morning when I went out to buy the paper. I could see the wall of it coming across the bay and up the hill as I walked home. So I had a race against the rain; as I shut the door behind me, the first drops hit the roof. So that was a pleasingly Indiana Jones-style start to the day.
I was going to see the new Harry Potter film this weekend but reading the paper just now I've discovered that I can't: the cinema - with its lovely Art Deco interior - burnt down yesterday morning. I was in town yesterday several hours after the fire and just around the corner from the cinema and I didn't notice anything. Not even any lingering smoke.
Finally - and this is likely to make sense only to my fellow Australians - I heard Mark Holden on the radio yesterday, ruling out a return to the Australian Idol judging panel because he's nearly finished his articles. His articles! Mark Holden is a lawyer! What sort of dire legal straits would you be in if you needed Mark 'Touchdown!' Holden to get you out of trouble?