I'm considering to give up quilting.....

[Hannelore N.]

.... and look for a course about "How to Build an Ark" instead. The weather this year has been really weird here in the UK. The last four weeks, when we normally get a lot of sunshine, has been dominated by grey skies and lots and lots of rain. Local rivers keep overflowing, roads keep flooding, and local schools are cancelling events like 'Sports Day'.

I keep wanting to break out in song and treat the world to a very off key version of "I'm singing in the rain....."

[Margo C.]

Jeesh...Lorchen you scared me! :lol:
At least now I know where all the rain is that we have been missing around here! My yard is parched!

[Rita C.]

As long as you keep singing Lorchen ....the sun will eventually shine I think it's a great idea for you to build an ark. And you can take quilters on two by two (bringing our own machines of course), and we can have a quilting cruise while the planet floods and burns. You just need to cajole a few celebrity quilters to join us so that they can teach us some of their tricks and tips.

[Renata L.]

I'd say that when you carry an umbrella, it usually stops raining... but I guess that hasn't been working for you over there!

[Nancy R.]

Count me in on the ark cruise!! We have both the burning and the flooding here in Colorado -- the best of both worlds! :roll:

Nancy

[E.M. T.]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: might as well laugh!!

[Cath P.]

Gee I was scared too for a moment. Giggles. But you will have to swing that ark by Australia so I can pop on. Very wet here today.

[wendy w.]

Don't despair Lorchen, sun forcast for 17.00 followed by ............................ I won't need your ark, I have webbed feet now

It's St Swithin's day in 4 days and you know what that means.

[Lotti D.]

'St. Swithin's day if thou dost rain
For forty days it will remain
St. Swithin's day if thou be fair
For forty days 'twill rain nae mair.'

now let us all hope for a fair 15th july in the UK and Ireland !!!

my grandmother had a similar one here in switzerland - but our's is for pentecost sunday: "if it rains on pentecost sunday - it'll rain the next 7 sundays... the 7 weeks probably is because pentecost is 7 weeks (50 days) after easter sunday...

[Lotti D.]

DH has beaten you to it - I got a book on build your own canoe for him for christmas last year, cos he thought that he would enjoy the reading of it (the same as we do with quilting books :wink: ). But then a couple of weeks ago we joined the local canoeing club and now he wants to go for it, minimum size seems to be planned at 20' :shock: we are going to need a larger car or something :roll:

[Lotti D.]

How about using one of your quilts to make a coracle (irish - curragh, canadian - bull (hide) boat) That way you can combine your old and new hobbies together 8)

[Betty J.]

My goodness Lorchen, you made my jaw drop until I saw what you were talking about. :lol: :lol: :lol: I understand Janome makes a modern day treadle machine with sixteen stitches and a buttonhole you could put on your ark so you don't have to give up quilting afterall. Everyone on the ark would probably be a lot more comfortable with a snuggly quilt...including the animals. :lol:

[Betty J.]

Lorchen--shame on you scaring us like that! You don't have to have outlandish subject titles to get us to read your posts, we all look forward to them. You can send some of that rain our way.

[Betty J.]

I THINK you are getting the rain the states usually gets... we are having droughts over here... not a pretty picture... lot of forest fires.

Nonnie

[Betty J.]

Should the Ark project re-commence I would like to suggest this ditty, which was written to commorate a particularly wet re-enactment muster weekend, that went down in the annals of the English Civil War Society.

Sutton Scotney
(sung to the tune 'To Be a Pilgrim')

Who'd join the Kings Army, come to our muster,
We had one at Sutton Scotney, what a disaster!
Fresh water, heaven sent, was no discouragement
When we first pitched our tent at Sutton Scotney.

We heard the weather forecast - sunny with showers.
The sky stayed overcast - it poured for hours.
We thought we'd stay and fight, for still our hearts were light,
It rained all bleeding night at Sutton Scotney.

Soon the field was covered in shit, so was the army.
Why did we put up with it? We're bleedin' barmy!
Still raining all weekend, we thought would never end,
We must be round the bend at Sutton Scotney.

Then the beer tent had no beer - that was not planned on!
So you who enter here, all hope abandon
And come next muster day, I'll care not what men say,
Next time I'll stay away from Sutton Scotney

apologies if anyones sensibilities are overcome by some of the language - it is what I refer to as 'battlefield language' and as in real life happens.