Another raging torrent hits tipperty... okay it ain't the Philipines with two hurricanes in a week, or Western Samoa with a tsunami, or any of the other major disaster areas but it had us a wee bit worried - I got a call from Jiurie this morning about the burn getting close to the top again after a week of rain and a day of heavy drizzle.
We are well blessed for rainfall in Aberdeen compared to so many other parts of the world where they have either too much or tooo little. Now I won't go all geopolitical or anthropomorphic and say that there is no such thing as too much or too little rain - there just is rain and that the qualitative estimate of amount is based purely on humans - which it is - and that basically people often build their houses in the wrong place, which they do, but I won't. Nor will i get into the "if a tree falls in the forest does it make a noise" area (if there are no people in an area and it floods is it a disaster or is it just part of natures cycles) and I definitely won't go into global warming and climate change (because i reckon the jury is still out on what is happenig but that we better react like it is our fault anyway just in case it is) so I'll just say that it rained a lot recently in Aberdeen and today we were worried.
Worry and suffering is all relative and we have both seen enough of the world to know that our prob;ems are mere pinpricks compared to the problems of other but, well, they are our problems and so they give us something to worry about. Perhaps that is part of the human psyche - we are never happy, or never seem truely alive, unless we are worrying about something.
And of course the flowers help us not to worry about our tiny little troubles in a big world of woes. And there are some nice flowers in the garden at the moment. The wet wether is helping the transplanted primulas bed in well while there's still the end of the roses coming through before the first frost and some of the calluna winter heathers are particularly attractive - beautiful pinks and mauves across the rockery. Also the leaves are falling quickly so by the time I get back next week everything that jiurie photographed to day will be covered in brown leaves and I'll have to spend my days raking up soggy leaves before i can see anything.
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