Trip Report: Day 2, Yes, It Is Still Morning

After break, now I'm on my own, and on the Mess Deck (Hammocks). There are four flash cards here. Three tied together and, untangle, ah, the fourth one is the same as the first, but not tied on. That might not be so bad. A couple stop at this spot and I read through the first card. They know about lead lines & log lines, so I don't go over them again. They move on. I forgot about the cat. Bugger. Next time.

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sffgamebot's word of the day is hyetophobia,which according to theGrandiloquent Dictionary means fear of rain. Although, if I google, the only time the word occurs is in various incarnations of the GD. It doens't even make the Phobia List.

There are other words that mean fear of rain, such pluviophobia and ombrophobia.

Pluviophobia shares a common root with pluvial, pluviography, pluvious and similar words, which have a respectable background as English words.

From the Online Eymology Dictionary, pluvial
1656, "of or pertaining to rain," from Fr. pluvial (12c.), from L. pluvialis "pertaining to rain," from (aqua) pluvia "rain (water)," from fem. of pluvius "rainy," from plovere "to rain," from PIE base *pleu- "to flow, to swim" (cf. Skt. plavate "navigates, swims;" Gk. plynein "to wash," plein "to navigate;" O.E. flowan "to flow"


Ombrophobia only seems to have relatives in scientific, or last technical word, but it seems to be the more widely used term. From Greek ombros = rain

Trip Report: Day 2, Finally, It's After Noon

Lunch time! I dropped my vest, water bottle and cap in the sea chest nearest the fire hearth. (We'd been told to wear blue or white tops if possible and I only had two decent blue t-shirts. I took them and wore the navy blue one on the first day, which worked well while guiding, but. I wasn't quite keen enough to head into city wearing Lady Nelson on my t-shirt and HMB Endeavour on my cap :)

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