"I only take public transpo when it rains because the missus hates the smell of wet fur."

Oh that’s a tricky one. Thanks for buying Taking Flight, and I’m always so pleased when people choose to buy my books as presents. If you have the patience to wait, Light Rains is (in my frankly irrelevant opinion) a bit better if read from beginning to end, but starting anywhere else works too.

Having grown up someplace where it rains in July and August and that's pretty much it, it felt like reading about an alien world—but it was neat seeing how many different ways an Irish writing could find to describe rain.

Saturday 11:22 am: A tropical depression has formed in the western gulf. It will be guided eastward through a tropical atmosphere deep in moisture to fuel significant intensification and to fuel generous rains in advance of, and with the system arrival in Florida Wednesday.

🎶I blessed the rains down in Mantua.🎶

It is now Tropical Depression 14, and will form into a hurricane by Monday and strike Florida Wednesday-Thursday. Heavy rains begin tomorrow, storm surge late Tuesday. www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at4...

@TRTWorldNow: In pictures: Search and rescue operations continue in Bosnia and Herzegovina after floods & landslides caused by heavy rains killed at least 16 people https://t.co/A6J2m3m55b

When it rains, it pours. Perhaps they should also try and get an abundance of yellow jacket traps out there. Hang them wherever they can. This is just awful. I dread to think what else is out there in the flood waters. 😱This freak storm broke the law of all storms. Landfall-inland-downgrade to TS.

Surprise! 🎶It never rains in - oh wait. 🎶 Sometimes it snows in - A Swiss girl doing Swiss girl things.

Indeed. I've been thinking about what to wear and preparing, I've long experience of being out in the sticks in weathers most wouldn't go out in - bitter cold blizzards, hazardous winds and drenching rains. I'm looking at my old walking boots and raincoat to see if they're still up to the job.Indeed. I've been thinking about what to wear and preparing, I've long experience of being out in the sticks in weathers most wouldn't go out in - bitter cold blizzards, hazardous winds and drenching rains. I'm looking at my old walking boots and raincoat to see if they're still up to the job.