Tag: rainbow

Today was unconscionably blustery; bins blowing everywhere. A2 had to keep stopping and planting herself foursquare (legs, stick and shopping trolley) to avoid being blown off course. But she emerged from a ginnel like a wind tunnel to the sight of this evanescent rainbow. Then the sun went away and the wind blew on.
A2, inspired by a list of Christmas crime novels in the newspaper, is rereading Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton, which starts with Christmas and ends with a crime but is really a story of a man remorselessly exploited by a woman.

A2 went out in the morning sunshine feeling happy and healthy and was caught in an unpredicted biting squally rainstorm. By the time she got home she had been infected with A1’s miserable sniffly headachy cold and is feeling full of snot and self-pity. Meanwhile she is rereading Dog Will Have His Day by Fred Vargas.

Here come the clouds with a surprise transitory rainbow, caught on our weathercam.
A1 is reading Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson. A2 is reading Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts; a crazy space opera that sucks you in like a black hole, and one of his philosophical novels — a Deleuzian delusion.

The Tories’ attempt to ban rainbows fails…
A1 is rereading Fall: or, Dodge in Hell, the sequel to REAMDE. A2 is rereading The Men Who Went Up in Smoke* by Sjöwall and Wahlöö.

But it was a brainy day as well as a rainy day. We had chicken bacon and broccoli with veggie options and delicious squidgy chocolate pear pudding for our family meal and scored 11.5 on the GSQ, at last bringing our average over 10.
A2 is reading The Spy by Ajay Chowdhury.

A day of squally showers and raging winds. Walking in the weather was like wrestling with the invisible man.
But it’s ending now and here’s the rainbow going down somebody’s chimney.
A2 is reading The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas; a honeymoon gone horribly wrong, presented as a bundle of random documents including a hilarious and alarming audio transcript.

Spring-like weather: sunshine, showers, rainbow (with a faint secondary at top right).
A1 is rereading Henry Porter’s Empire State. A2 is reading The Candy House* by Jennifer Egan. They can remember it for you retail.

A showery but sunny day.
A1 is reading The Hermitage by LJ Ross.

The end of the rainbow in a dark and gloomy cloud.
A2 has finished her feast of the fabulous new books and is now reading The Sins of Our Fathers* by Asa Larsson; which featured dogs, boxing, skiing, corruption in the Swedish construction industry and other boring things but was nonetheless an absolutely riveting read.

Birds fly over and under a rainbow with numerous supernumeraries and a secondary rainbow out of sight up above. Today was our warmest day of the year so far: 18.4 °C and one of the wettest: 9.9 mm and counting.
Admin2 is rereading The Third Person by Steve Mosby.

The rain is raining but the sun is shining and Admin2 is feeling fairly fine (Admin1 is still under the weather though).
Admin2 was reading Eating People Is Wrong by Malcolm Bradbury which was quite funny about 50 years ago but is now shamefully racist and sexist. Tempora mutantor et nos mutamus in illis. She is now reading Death on Demand and Admin1 is reading Death Ship, both by Jim Kelly.

A very faint rainbow at the end of a very wet and gloomy day.
Admin1 is rereading Jingo by Sir Terry Pratchett. Admin2 is reading Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson.

Two awesome rainbows brightening our evening. According to an article in the paper today, seeking out awe can make you happier and healthier. Awfulness is the new mindfulness.
Admin1 is reading Peculiar London by Christopher Fowler. Admin2 is reading The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith, a gigantic doorstopper which needs a comprehensive workover by an editor. How many times does the author describe the office manager as having an e-cigarette clamped in her teeth? As if that were even possible.

Admins 1 and 2 saw this lovely sight on a dry evening; the first rainbow we have seen since the very wet month of February.
Admin1 is rereading Lethal White by Robert Galbraith. Admin2 is reading A Change of Circumstance* by Susan Hill, a mundane saga of family life disguised as a crime novel.

A beautiful bright and evanescent rainbow briefly lighting up the autumn leaves to celebrate Admin2’s booster jab.
Admin1 is reading The Midnight Hour by Elly Griffiths. Admin2 started reading Too Much of Water by LC Tyler but is probably going to look for something else [update: rereading The Pesthouse by Jim Crace].

More rain, and at last a bow!
Admin1 is reading This Poison Will Remain by Fred Vargas. Admin2 is rereading When Will There be Good News? by Kate Atkinson.

The bow is not that wow, but Admin1 was working on a pun concerning a brilliant sundog that dwindled before he could photograph it, and likewise this rainbow faded away before Admin2 could snap it through the red and golden leaves.
Admin1 is rereading Flesh Wounds by Christopher Brookmyre. Admin2 is reading The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaitre; a jockey club member with friends in high places gets government contracts and does everything on the cheap. Wouldn’t happen here…

This rainbow appeared in the sky to celebrate Admin1 getting an emerald badge representing one year of research into COVID-19 after only three months of crunching!
Admin2 is reading Knife by Jo Nesbo.