This recent purchase combines two of my enduring pleasures, the Shipping Forecast and washing up...I love the Shipping Forecast, the comforting strains of Ronald Binge's (fantastic name!) 'Sailing By' followed by the mantra-like intoning of the forecast it's self (non of which I understand)...
It's sort of like 'putting the country to bed'...
I then rest easy in the dark night...
'You don't have a dish washer..?' Is a comment I often hear at the fashionable cocktail parties I'm always getting invited to...
'No I bloody don't' is my happy, an somewhat smug, reply...
Washing up is the one opportunity I have to impose my innate control freakery on inanimate objects...
I'm invariably left alone to get on with it...
I notice my tea towel is out of date as Finisterre (not shown in picture) is now named FitzRoy...
All things must pass I suppose...
You can buy your own Sea Area Tea Towel here:
Buy the Sea
3 comments:
Except for the homeless I am probably the only person in the USA that doesn't have a dishwasher. I had one once but I didn't like it.
I don't get invited to fashionable cocktail party's and maybe not having a dishwashing machine is the reason. And then again maybe not.
Nice towels.
Ah, the shipping forecast..
Some of us here in Finland appreciate it too. Passionately.
I hope this allows you to sample our forecast.
http://areena.yle.fi/haku//uusimmat/hakusana/meris%C3%A4%C3%A4
It is regrettable that some of the younger radio personel have not acquired the 'right' pronounciation, but usually it is good enough.
Can I hear the British forecast on-line for free? Haven't looked for it extensively, I'll try to find it but usually a search like this results in 'blah, tis is 4 brits only, suck on en egg, and please, visit us again'.
Jani,
Try this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qfvv
I've just used it and it works fine...
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