Yesterday was overcast for much of the day. Tuesday starts early (6am today) with us watching an electrical storm in the sky to the west of us. Half an hour. It doesn't seem to be moving. It is so far away we can't hear it and most of the action seems to be centred behind the tallest building around here, with fingers of light forking out and creating a halo around its silouhette.
F tries to film some of it. I demand food.
The heavy cloud that accompanies the flashing sky is turning pink on the eastern edge and almost imperceptibly moving towards the rising sun.
It must have rained in the northern suburbs yesterday - the sea had a weird 2 tone colour effect when we got home which suggests the Kifisia stream had been flushing, and the sea surface was covered in the rubbish and debris that it carried along. It might be the strange light effects of that storm cloud but the sea still looks 'muddy'. No swimming today.
There is a strange moaning sound up the street.
The rubbish truck is picking up and emptying the shared bins we all throw our rubbish into.F drinks the last of her watermelon juice... and her fizz. Delivery trucks start arriving with goods for the corner shop.
She goes out and feeds the downstairs cousins and is disappointed to see that Leftie isn't there (I reckon it was that worm pill that did it, or that name....it makes him sound like the hired muscle, the enforcer, when in fact big though he is, nothing could be further from the truth.) The plants get watered. Sandra's moss roses have produced another burst of colour.
F did some sewing; a tote bag to package the quilt in. The sort of bag that new Mums use for nappies and wipes and bibs and baby food pouches and spare this and spare that and...
And then she left for work without me!
WHAT???
It's laiki day, how can she buy fruit without consulting me?
How can she work unsupervised all day?
She took Donkey with a plant on my seat, and arrived home at the end of the day in a rain storm (lightening and thunder and flooding) hatless and shoeless, bare head bare feet, with an open umbrella over Donkey.
At least she got one priority right.
And the temperature had dropped to a less sweltering 27 degrees. To end our day here is a 19:23 hour photo of our sea with today's fresh flood water and debris working its way round from where the Kifisia empties the filth of north Athens into our pristine coastal environment... And just to give you an idea how fast it's moving, here it is 3 minutes later.The clouds are looking very ragged underneath. And darker than these photos convey.
Mr B rang. He's in France. F said 4 more sleeps.
I bet that was us getting in the neck. Torrential rain and what seemed like endless thunder right overhead early this morning. Looks as though it's building up for a second dose now.
ReplyDeleteLove following you two through the day. Thank goodness it's finally cooler for you. Hope it stays that way
If that was your storm you certainly were getting it in the neck. It lasted about 45 mins to an hour and seemed to have a permanent lightning centre. You can't see it in the video but that tall building had a permanent pink backlight, like a glowing halo
DeleteDear Tigger, I guess you are happy now that you got left behind in the morning - you might have been one very wet puddy-tat otherwise!
ReplyDeleteIt is always fascinating (to me) to see how one water current can infiltrate another body of water quite markedly before it all dissipates. A pity this one carries so much debris though.
Keep purring, Tigger :)
Last time we got caught in a storm like that we sat out most of it in a doorway, then F wrapped me up in a beach towel so i looked like a colourful sausage roll sitting on a Donkey. That garnered some laughs.
DeleteFour more sleeps till....?
ReplyDeleteAs i answer this 3 more sleeps and then Mr B will be here. He is going to stay with us then until we all go home together. That willl make F less stressed (l hope). And instead of going to work, I can spend my days shooting the breeze with Mr B. He's the human i adopted when i decided to stop being a stray cat. Xxx Mr T
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ReplyDeleteOh, the might of nature... and the detritis of humankind. Has F told you about the dreadful effluent issues in the waters of these sceptred isles? I can't believe so many folk are still willing to dunk themselves in the sea and rivers here. F may want to develop a full hazard swimming outfit for her return to these shores. Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
Good grief! What are we returning to? We had left believing the UK had cleaned up its act and now had a good record on water quality and standards of sewage disposal. That's shocking - and the rest of the post is very unvarnished too. Worryingly worse tgere than we had ever feared when we saw the results in June 2016.
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DeleteJust from a different angle that may interest/shock you, which includes the statement:"Environment Agency data suggests the amount of raw sewage pumped into seas and rivers by the water companies has increased 2,553% in the past five years." 8`0 ... Yxx
The light show was amazing. The colours were beautiful
ReplyDeleteLoved it.
Not so much the water. Hopefully it will disperse quickly and it’s not too toxic
Yay for Mr B getting closer and closer. that is a great capture of the storm, that is what we have been having every day, except it is right on top of our house. the photos of the debri moving are quite amazing, I have not seen anything like that before. I agree with no swimmmig today. seems it was a good thing youd stayed home Tigger, the umbrella might not have been enough to keep you dry
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