Bit Blowy Today

Yesterday we were swimming in the sea. Today I think it best we don't.

I live in a beautiful place but one thing that puts some people off visiting me sometimes is the effect of the weather on the Barriers. As i am sure Norhtern must have said at some point Churchill ordered them to be put up during the last war to keep the u-boats out (of Scapa Flow) then made sure that they had a road on them so that they could use Italian Prisoners of War without contravening the Geneva Convention. As a result two islands were connected to the biggest island by road. The man who, as a child, lived in Northern's house told me that he could see these causeways being constructed from the school and when he got home his mother would ask him if they had broken the surface of the water yet, all the way to the other side. The day they did they packed up some supplies and tripped across to the neighbouring island, over the blocks which broke the surface, where they visited his Granny, coming back before bedtime. Probably the first people other than the Italian POWs to cross the fourth barrier.

These days we go across every day to get to work, to the shops, to the cinema except on days when mother nature decides to make us think on. The local authority try and occassionally close them as they are getting twitchy about people being hurt crossing when the weather is rough. I do know of peoplewho have had their cars trashed. It is no fun being hit by that amount of water in the dark. My friend thought, when she got hit and the sun roof popped and the weight of the water left the indent of the engine in the bonnet of her car, that the world had ended and she had been washed away - she simply didn't know which way was up any more.

I think this might be my longest blether to date which means that I am definitely avoiding work...