Rain. It rains a lot in Holland. Winters are not so cold anymore as they used to be. Instead, there is just rain. So it rained for the past days. Also during the weekend. But it didn’t seem to effect life negatively. I noticed almost everyone smiling, as I walked to the Albert Cuyp market last Saturday.
In “So long and thanks for all the fish” Rain-man is accompanied by rain. All the time. So he had described 231 different types of rain in his little notebook. (”And he didn’t like any of them…”). During my twenty minute walk I went through types 47 to 51, “vertical light drizzle through to sharply slanting light to moderate drizzle freshening”. I only got wet a little.
I sang most of the time and many people were either singing too or simply whistling. “The clouds want to be near him, to love him, to water him”, Douglas Adams writes about Rain-man. This morning though the sun came. Por fin. Rain, a very underestimated source of cheerfulness.
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leimac // January 22, 2008 at 6:17 pm |
Thanks, now I have this awful garbage-tune in my head: “I’m only happy when it rains” );
C
petter // January 26, 2008 at 7:26 pm |
nice pictures! i feel the same about the rain! you friend liemac could always sing “blame it on the rain” by milli vanilli. ha ha!
petter
xxoo