Thanks for your generous comments, Peter, Doug, MJ and all others ...
I am listening tonight to rain which is a welcome visitor to our dry landscape. We had a downpour at the beginning of May (which hardly penetrated beyond the coastal areas) - and then the sun came out and stayed until tonight.
I mentioned how pleased I was with the sound of rain on the roof tonight in a Creative Writing class (first night) and an Irish student came up to me and said, You wouldn't like the sound of rain if you came from Ireland. I took the opportunity to ask the class, Do you remember a day without weather? Nobody did, yet so few people put it in their stories - many poets put it in the poems, maybe.
Cheers -
Andrew
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