Is this what is called "Sod's Law"?

[Alice Abbott]

It started to get really chilly here so in preparation for winter we have -

Made sure we have a good supply of wood within easy reach of the kitchen door and covered it with a watertight cover which is nonetheless easy to get under. (Actually it's the frame from the tent we had in the living room last year with a tarpaulin over it but it works perfectly). We also lit the living room fire and stoked it to stay burning throughout the day and night, same with the kitchen range.

Changed all the duvets to winter weight ones and packed all the summer weight ones under our mattress or under the sheets on the kids' camp beds.

Put the heat retaining tarpaulin over the ground floor to keep the heat down out of the upper floors and found our thick winter curtains to hang. Tacked one across the big hole in the kitchen door. Mack is making another door but wants to duplicate the original oak one (minus hole) and it's taking him a long time.

Sorted out all our winter clothes and put away the summer ones. Our clothes are either hanging on the few hooks and rails we have or put away in suitcases which balancce on a big sheet of hardboard up on the ceiling beams (those ones Mack fell from last week) so it's not as if they are just pushed to the back of a wardrobe.

Drained our outdoor shower (basically a huge clear plastic tank on the barn roof with a shower head and shower tray and a drainage pipe off to another tank so I can use the water for watering. Hauled in the tin bath for our winter baths.

Spent a chunk of our budget on winter shoes for the kids.

So what happens? The sun comes out. Day after day. Yesterday it hit 29 degrees c, today feels even hotter. It was so hot in the kitchen last night we had to have the doors and windows open. No one could sleep because they were too hot. And today there's me running around in jeans and a sweater. The kids are moaning because their sandals, shorts and teeshirts are up the "loft" and I feel the same because mine are up their too. Mack is still refusing to go back up there because his ribs are still sore from his fall (we think he probably cracked a couple of them after a long distance consultation with my doctor brother). And I'm not brave enough to balance on the beams 12 feet up to get things out again.

I suppose I shouldn't complain but talk about best laid plans...

[Millymollymandy]

You must be in a teeny little pocket of wierd weather as your forecast for today is rain and 18C, much like we have! I'm rejoicing over the rain though as we so desperately need it.

Still Alice you could always do what the kids do and run around the garden naked.

[MKG]

Yep, that's Sod's Law.

So you know exactly what will happen if you do go and get the lightweight stuff back down, don't you?

Mike

[Alice Abbott]

Is that the forecast for Barbeziuex? Strange!

Actually it's now started raining. But HOT rain. I suppose it might turn into a thundertorm and cool off a bit but it doesn't look that way. The thermometer outside the back door still shows 26 degrees so it looks as if we have our own microclimate in this village. But I've now found enough teeshirts in our ragbag for all of us so everyone is now happy!

Actually the kids are running around the garden (plus Morris Lurcher) playing their version of one on run plus dog rugby (he changes sides depending upon who has the ball). They will definitely be stripped off before they are allowed in as they are so muddy I can't tell one from the other. Were it not that I am supposed to be doing battle with a dead rabbit I think I would be out there with them!

[anarchistinslippers]

How about sweeping up all the leaves in the garden (which is about 40 foot square, if that) only to have almighty winds the following day, resulting in, yup, MORE fallen leaves. Gah!

[Millymollymandy]

Is that the forecast for Barbeziuex? Strange!

No, because I don't know where you live - it was for the department generally!

http://france.meteofrance.com/france/me ... previsions

[Alice Abbott]

I should say Barbezieux!

Anyway we had a huge storm in the night which blew away every remaining leaf from our trees and knocked out the supply to our electricity cable (I had to go over to the neighbour's house, find and reset the supply).

But it's still hot...

[Alice Abbott]

OK, so I think I'll stop with the weather reports. It's now freezing cold and hailing...

[Millymollymandy]

Well at least you have your woollies out! And - you can't get bored with the weather either!

[mrsflibble]

mmmm sod's law. like my free chest of drawers but finding out i've gone and got cupboard paint on my favorite (ok £3) leggings

[MuddyWitch]

Yep I love good old Sod & his laws! I may be personally responsible for the very wet Summers of the last few years...I spent weeks & huge amounts of energy digging a watering system into my beds!

MW

[JulieSherris]

Ha, the law of sod.....

Hubby says I can't really get geese or ducks until he's dug out & made a pond.... so I'm going to ignore him!
I figured that if I get them now, it'll stop blooming raining & we'll lose the endless supply of natural pond areas around the garden (which is normally exactly where I want to walk)

It's surely worth a try!

[Cloud]

Works with plumbers too. Sod's law states that if the pipe springs a leak under the far corner of the bath the emergency plumber will be a short, stock Italian with arms that can't reach even half way to the leak. But look for the silver lining. I got a quick one-on-one instructions, as temporary plumber mate, on how to fix a leaking pipe - at arms length (good job I'm lanky).

[MuddyWitch]

Julie, first it's great to have you back!!!

Now, your duck plan won't work; by definition Sod only kicks in if you DON'T want something! It's like lighting a ciggy so the bus will come, as my SinL does. If he'd just lit the ciggy the bus would have turned up, but because it was lit TO BRING THE BUS, it didn't work. (and he got earache from me about smoking!!!)

Get the ducks though, they'll be fun & taste great!

MW

[homegrown]

So sod's law, is he relation to Murphy.

you know those

The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlamp of an oncomming train
intercgangeable parts won't
unbreakable parts will
the amonut of petrol in your tank is always 1 litre short of where you want to go

oh' and don't mess with Mrs Murphy

We had a weather forecast of heavy southerly squalls , very cold, and we reached 27 celcius today with northwest winds, so all the battening down I did wasfor sod,n nothing

Sod's law

my wife joined the PTA and said she didn't want to much responsability, she at a meeting tonight being elected president