A Proper Experience

[poliphilo]

 I enjoy extreme weather- just so long as it's not so extreme as to cause damage...

Yesterday, for instance, we were shopping at Lidl in Polegate and got caught in a terrific downpour.  I ran for the car, pushing my trolley, and it was if someone was chucking gravel in the air and it was falling on my bent back. A bit daunting at the time but it turned an outing that would otherwise have been routine and forgettable into a Proper Experience- a pleasure to remember- and then to write about. 

That downpour was localised. We drove home- a couple of miles- and found our part of town had experienced nothing but a passing dampness. 

Since then it has rained on and off. Just now the sun is shining on us but the sky to the West- where most of our weather comes from- is very, very heavy.... 

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[wantedonvoyage]

We have only gotten Lidl in the past few years. The one closest to my house started out nice but was decidedly shabby last time I went in there. There's a new one by my job so I go there now instead.

On my last cruise we had just come alongside in Castries, St. Lucia, and it was raining on the starboard side of the boat but sunny on the portside.

[poliphilo]

I remember as a kid standing in the garden of a house where it was sunny and watching rain fall in the garden next door.

We like Lidl. Good products, low prices.....