Clouds overhead? Never mind: there are still plenty of reasons to feel positive...

Gardener or not, I find it difficult to welcome so much rain. To start with, I find myself in conversations with other soaking-wet people uttering platitudes such as, "Well, the garden did need it." Later, moister, we meet again and indulge in fantasies of a world without hosepipe bans. But in general, in the crocodilian layer of brain beneath the conscious mind, my thoughts are, "Stop raining: I need sun so I can plonk my big reptile tail on the muddy riverbank and get all hot."






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