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25 Apr 2011

up y***, raincloud!

Well, this is a family blog, isn't it? So please excuse the asterisks but I feel I shouldn't write this out in full, for those whose native language is English. (Actually most of my Austrian readers probably wouldn't mind.)
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Now to explain, there's a story attached to those photos. Today was the first one of the year with muggy weather, and thunderstorms threatening. I still rode my bike out to Wienerwald and tempted one of those clouds to follow me.

As soon as I had its attention I blitzed through the entire town of Vienna, to end up in Lobau, which was where the cloud almost caught up with me; but I tricked it by going in a circle, I soon was behind the back of that cloud which you can see in the background. Which is where the title of this blog came into play, or in other words I gave it the finger.
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The cloud, as you can imagine, was furious about it - and tried to turn round; but you can turn a cloud around just as easily as a lorry in a cul-de-sac. So it tried to shed as much rain as it could in my direction, but all I caught was a few drops which were more than a welcome refreshment in the sweltry air. So up y***, dearest cloud!