Just as Brucie has “Nice to see you”, Larry Grayson “Shut that door!” and James T “Beam me up Scottie”, I too have a catchphrase. It is the rather snappy,”Don’t worry, it’s just a shower!”.
After spending a restless night in which the Valkyries hammered at our window demanding entry for hours on end, I drove to work through the hail storm from hell. “Don’t worry” I thought “its just a shower”. Shortly after, as I sat in Lavinia and Lionel’s kitchen sipping a cup of their finest coffee, I looked out of the window. To my surprise the sky was full of white fluffy stuff “Good golly” I mused “that’s proper snow” followed swiftly by “Don’t worry, it’s just a shower”. So gallantly I donned full waterproof kit: hat, snood, oversized jacket, trousers, boots – nothing could encroach this meteorological force field. After some, I thought rather cruel, laughter from Lav I set to work, undaunted. This heralded the sun’s dramatic arrival. What followed was a horticultural striptease and the realisation that I had had no need to worry at all, it really was “just a shower”. Who would have thought it? I was right all along!
Off The Edge Gardening 
Good for you, I’ve had a week of ‘am I, aren’t I’ dithering and looking skyward, best to be totally positive and believe in showers.
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Often I am trying to convince myself by saying it!
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“horticultural striptease” :O
🙂
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We waited 4 hours for new sod to arrive in dry pleasant weather. Now that it is in the process of being laid the promised rain has arrived with a vengeance. If it had arrived on time, everyone would have remained dry.
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Did you growl? I may have. At least the rain will water it in ☺
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They worked non stop all afternoon in pouring rain and the rain hasn’t stopped since. We are having a bit of a dry spell in between right now, so it’s a good time pick up fallen oranges from last night’s storm.
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Oranges?! Now you taunt me …. 🙂
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One day we may get weather which is just right for what we want to do, in the meantime……!!
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Always best to keep something in reserve in case the weather gets even worse, no? 😉 Words and wellies alike!
Of course, it’s the other way round out here in the desert. My current catchphrase being, ‘no, not hot, it’s only warm…’
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Ha! I wonder if I will ever say that?! 🙂
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“A horticultural striptease,” ha ha! Much the same here, as usual.
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This is California after all Gill!
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