Every year I bitch about the dark dank rainy days of winter in the City of Lights. As you can see from the weather forecast this week, bitching is not entirely uncalled-for. I come from a region of the states that's reputed to have terrible winters. But it's got a lot going for it. More light, for one thing, being much further south than Paris. There's a wan but happy kind of sunshine in winter, and when there's snow on the ground it's even brighter.
Here, though, it's dim all day... "evening all afternoon" as Wallace Stevens would say, but neither snowing nor going to snow. This is no winter worthy of the name, just bottom-of-the-barrel November until March or so, when we can start to see the days lengthening again.
Thank goodness for electric lights and Christmas shopping.
UPDATE: As if in reply, this morning it's beautiful and sunny! Must bitch about the weather more often!
2 comments:
ObSnow: we've had it for the first time here today, which is pretty good going for Manchester, capitale anglaise de la pluie!
Anyway, this comment may or may not be a feeble pretext for pointing out something that caught my eye this morning in the Metro (no, not that Métro, sadly... I mean http://www.metro.co.uk/). There was an article entitled "Dummy or not dummy". Proof that Hamletclones can exist in English despite misplaced stress, slightly approximative vowels, and a reasonable amount of ungrammaticality. :-)
Hey, nice find with the Hamletclone!
And yeah, I was thinking as I was writing that, "What about those poor people in the UK?" You've got it darker and danker than us!
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