Britain is often noted by many foreigners that its always raining. This is actual not true, as some places in the UK are incredible dry. The East for example receives far less rainfall than the west of the country (in places such as Manchester) as the rain tends to hit the Pennines after rolling in off the Atlantic. Its not uncommon, in my hometown (in the North East of England) for it to go weeks and weeks with it not raining - especially in the winter months, when most of the preciptation tends to be snow.

Sheffield is kinda unique in that because it is located in the center of the country and next to the bottom ridge of the hills - the weather can turn from one day to the next quite suddenly. This tends to be more of a rounder synopsis of British weather as whole. We can have glorious t-shirt wearing weather one day, and pissing it down rain the next.

So if you are thinking of coming here, and god help you. I advise you to prepare for all weather elements. This is especially more true in the summer months when the weather can turn quite volatile. This is the season we receive most of our rain due to the large increase in humidity and alternating pressure.

Today itself was quite abymsal in terms of weather as it was, rather typically, overcast and rainy. It seemed to hold off for a while, and then around about 7pm - we got a bit of thinderstorm action. Not exactly the same type of thunderstorms you get in Asia - the ones I will most definitely be witnessing for a large protion of my trip next summer.

After farting about trying to get a good movie, I jumped into our creaky little flat balcony and kept rolling. After a while my arm got so tired that I turned the camera off. *BOMB* Maybe it was melodramatic but it sounded like someone firing a shotgun. A huge spark of light. Bollocks. The camera wasn't running and I had missed it.

After exactly 4 failed attempts, I sat for the next one and finally got something. It was completely unspectacular. Not even a loud enough roar to wake the Gods in my head for a Classical Japanese class after 7 cans of Strongbow. And then the sun started to break through, and the mini-storm floated off into the Peak District the exact same way it came.



Storms are normally so shit in the UK - but apparently we get a lot of thunderbolts hitting our fair little island. In fact, a lot of people have been killed by them - although I was brave enough to survive this one! (Can you feel this sarcasm wafting through your computer screen?)