Rain fell today. We had 27ml of steady rain, not the sudden over-in-a-minute kind, but the sort that sinks into the garden and refreshes. It was a proper Event. The hills behind our house were enshrouded with mist, as sombre as the grey sky, and the rain tumbled down for most of the day. In…

   ‘Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.’  Bob Marley In it came from the west, muttering and grumbling as I watched anxiously, hoping it wouldn’t do what it so often does: bypass us and go off to dump somewhere else. I’ve seen this happen so frequently this summer,  as I’ve obsessively checked …