Why does it always rain on me?........

As I drove to work this morning, listening to the radio, the DJs (if that’s what they are still called) posed the following question:

“What is more fun/nicer when it is raining?”

Of course I joined in – fresh cut grass after rain, a nice warm fire when it’s raining in winter, not having to get up....

But the more I thought about it, the more it dawned on me that as a nation we focus so much on the weather that we never really actually see it.  By that I mean, we bitch about it –It’s too hot, it’s too wet, it’s too cold etc etc etc, but never just appreciate the fact that we have such diverse weather conditions.

There are areas on this earth that never experience climactic change – where river banks have no water year after year, for hundreds of days per year this is no night, rain when it does come spells disaster and death to many.

As the world lurches towards an uncertain future in terms of global warming and climate change perhaps we should consider the weather we have now and actually enjoy the changeability and variety of plants, animals, sky that this brings.

So to Boogie and Arlene, thanks for making me think and enjoy the 3 inches of rain that fell last night, which has been followed by glorious sunshine, gale force winds and 19 degrees, and that was all before lunch.

K