Dans le Prairie avec le pleu

Monday morning" dans le prairie" and chucking down with rain,I have just downloaded the website which shows the poms new place in Oz.it's a far cry from Sheffield 5, some people are just born lucky,though we still can't get their blog on.
Montana is back and it seems looking for a dog sitter ,sadly he ignored my suggestion that he move to Florida,he would then be inundated with dog sitting volunteers trying to escape from Blighty, his dear long suffering wife is now accused of having the TV on too loud, but to me it never seemed loud enough when I was there, but the adverts always seem louder than the programmes,even though the broadcasters deny this is the case.
Yesterday I was out signwriting a shop facia in brilliant sunshine and 7 degrees centigrade,which felt positively heatwave after recent weather down here, opposite the shop was a pub,and occasional comments were uttered by departing drinkers,mainly of an appreciative nature.
I am now fed up of trying to find somewhere to holiday this winter and have given up on the subject, Le Blade is in Spain for two weeks and I looked at the weather in Malaga,rain today,then sun tuesday,then 4 days of rain,oh dear this is not why they went,hopefully the forecast is wrong and the sun shines for them.
I have a job to do decorating a pictorial weather vane,that requires some gold leaf on the points of the compass and the arrow,which brings to mind my old pal Brian Thornton,who used to supply me with cut price gold leaf , I think about him a lot when working on posters and stuff,and have a chuckle at some of the little tricks we got away with,we once rented a big empty warehouse near crystal peaks shopping mall in Sheffield to paint a football pitch size banner,and were using some cellulose based paints,which were giving of a strong odour,the bloke who owned the place came in and commented on the stink,Brian told him it would not linger long which was bending the truth to say the least,suffice it to say we did not use that place again.
As I write the sun is breaking through! guys are swimming guys are sailing the Stan Frebergh record comes to mind,about kids at summer camp in America.