Another monsoon day

Another grey damp day with an afternoon full of rain and more flood warnings. I felt none the worse for losing an hour and a half's sleep overnight. After breakfast I finished off making  and uploading the video of next week's Morning Prayer, and started work on one for the week after. Clare went shopping in town, and I cooked lunch. 

I unearthed a crinkly cabbage from the back of the veg drawer in the fridge. Straight from the farm it harboured dirt a couple of slugs and probably slugs eggs, a huge carrot was mud caked and the surface of a small celeriac so wrinkled, all of its exterior needed cutting off. Everything needed thorough cleaning and removal of outer layers before being fit for the steamer, but it all cooked perfectly and delicious, worth the effort. I used quinoa again instead of rice or potatoes. It goes nicely with fillets of sea bass.

After lunch I needed to do some food shopping. A break in the rain long enough to get me there and back was forecast on my phone's weather app, but it wasn't as accurate as it claims to be. It drizzled until a got to the Co-op, then the heavens opened, monsoon style for about half an hour non stop. I got everything on the list, but dared not leave the shelter of the store. 

I went back inside to see if they sell brollies, and found a generous sized gentleman's edition for only seven quid. As both the brollies I have and use are hardly fit for purpose, slightly broken, shall we say, I bought one and waited a little longer until the worst was over, and then headed for home. I had to be extra careful as there were gusts of wind from random directions. It was necessary to negotiate a path in the road, as gutters and pavements were overwhelmed with water that couldn't drain away fast enough. If only the drains were cleaned more regularly while autumn leaves fall at different stages, depending on the tree. Such heavy rain is likely to strip leaves from the remainder of trees yet to lose their foliage. It's looking more like winter now with a fortnight before the equinox, still mild, but with much colder weather coming soon we're told. 

Before and after supper, I edited audio recorded this morning, then watched the finale episode of the first season of 'Lykkeland'. So far so good in a decades long story. My Windows 10 workstation is now sending me aggressive full page notifications of the operating system's end of life and need to upgrade. I wish there was a way to tell Microsoft that the machine will get a new lease of life when I convert it to Linux. I need to set aside time to do that properly.

The rain stopped around supper time, so I went out and walked for forty minutes in the dark to get the last of my daily step quota done, and have some fresh air before turning in.