under the blanket

[Weather complaint #1373] It was too good to last, I just knew it. After two wonderfully warm days filled with sunshine, laughter and short sleeves, the past three days have been grey and pissin' wet. Rain, rain, go away. I know, I know, I had been warned about the weather before I came, so I should quit whining and just suffer in silence.

Is it any wonder that conversation here revolves around the weather? I recall making small talk to this bloke about the rain, and then he said something like: "Let's not be so typically British and just talk about the weather, shall we?" And then there was a deadly silence...