In Ireland we have an expression “It’s a soft day thank God”
A soft day theoretically is a day when the rain is very fine, but often the type of rain that soaks you to the skin without you really noticing that it has been raining. We get a lot of rain in Ireland. I realised how much after I moved to London. I no longer own an umbrella, it is not an essential item! In Ireland you would be mad not to own an umbrella.
Because it rains so much in Ireland, the joke is, the heavier the rain, the more ferocious the wind, the more likely you are to hear “Ah.. ‘Tis a soft day thank God” to which the appropriate reply is ; ‘ ’tis indeed’
I do have a very good raincoat, and we do get heavy rain in London in the rainy season, normally during the time when the schools are closed for the summer holidays.
This photo was taken during a family summer holiday. My hubby & I sailed to Poole Harbour one week and had such a lovely time swimming & sunbathing, we thought ‘the girls would love it here’ so we packed up the car with a weeks worth of clothes & supplies & headed down to the boat.
We left Portsmouth in sunshine, but by the time we had reached Lymington where we were planning to spend a day or two, a force 9 gale was forecast. The next morning we woke to rain battering our boat & black skies, which lasted all day.
This photo of my husband going up to the marina to ask about extending our stay until the weather front passed over, reminded me completely of an Irish “Soft Day”
A grand soft day, thank God. Peter can be seen in a yellow raincoat as he heads out along the pontoon
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This week’s Travel Theme is Soft!
Day One 
I hope you remembered to bring playing cards to play snap!
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I really am losing it, i replied to this comment as if it was to my cute lambs post! Oh dear. We had no cards and by the end of the ‘holiday’ we all had severe cabin fever. It was the wettest holiday in living memory!
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what a gorgeous image…how brave of him to go out in it…I get lost in weather like that. I do. I get lost all the time actually. Was on my way to Canada via Africa and somehow ended up in The Netherlands instead…
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Peter did that once, he went to Ireland on the way to hitch-hike around Europe & got stuck in Westmeath for 10 years! I think he likes it damp 🙂
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Sounds like it.
Hehehehe
😆
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When we go for long walks he always at some point says ‘lets go this way, it looks like a short-cut’ we invariably end up knee deep in mud, or standing in the middle of a water-meadow!
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Hahahahaha…men huh !!!!!!!
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He did it once when we were on holidays in Portugal, and we ended up completely surrounded by water and had to backtrack for ages to get where we needed to go. We nearly missed the last shuttle train & would have been stranded, exhausted from hours of walking in the middle of nowhere!
I must remember to add Portugal to my travel page at some point!
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Do that…and do apost about THAT story while you’re at it
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Will do…you have just reminded me of it, it was a good one 🙂
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I like Peter. He is an adventurer. Now if you tell me he never asks for directions, he will be my hero.
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Indeed he doesn’t!!
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There is a God in heaven!!
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And that God tells him how to get places. Sometimes it takes lots longer than it would if he had asked for directions, or looked at a map… But hey ho
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