Ok...so it's a little chilly today... a bit of a welcome relief from the stiflingly hot weather we have been having over the past few weeks.
My darling other half really puts a lot of thought into novel gifts and this year one of the many extravagant gifts (something we agree to disagree on by the way) that he gave me for a milestone birthday was a weather station!
A weather station????
Well actually, I'm quite interested in the weather, Thankfully in this part of the world, we don't get random crazy freaky weather that often but since I spend a large part of my day running around outdoors after a bunch of 5 year olds, the weather is right up there on the top of my list of important things to master on a daily basis.
Now the fact that I can't control the weather (which miffs me slightly as I function best when in control of most of my world!) is a given but at least I can be prepared.
So I come home and there is a little white weather windmill thingy attached to the top of my wall and a little white container which I believe is a rain gauge.
It's actually quite a cool little gadget and can presumably predict the weather for 12 - 24 hours!
Now it didnt come without a learning curve. I had to sit down and learn about atmospheric and barometric pressure and high and low altitudes etc etc etc which is never a bad thing I suppose.
A few nights ago. I was lying peacefully in a well deserved hot bath when my languishing was rudely interrupted by a piercing shrill beep, which got louder and louder and prompted me to haul myself out of my warm cocoon and go and investigate. Apparently, it was quite windy outside! A whole 11km/h wind was gusting away outside and I was duly being warned!
Needless to say...said gift giver was instructed to tell well intentioned machine to only warn me when there was a serious chance of a hurricane in the future. Thoughts of me being dragged out of bed at ungodly hours for random wind warnings did pass through my head!

And so today, before venturing out, I didnt have to turn on the radio, or the tv or even stick my hand out the window! I just looked on a 10cmx10cm screen and was a wiser person!