There are few things as comforting as being inside, safe and dry, while rain hammers down outside.
The first few drops of what has become a fully-fledged (with mobile phone alerts!) storm, complete with long rumbles of thunder and distant flashes of lightning has now arrived in full force.
In the extended prelude to this storm, I sat outside the café of our local pool sipping my English Breakfast & Earl Gray Melange in a camply OTT faux (moulded) cut glass outsized cup when the first erratic drops fell.
But you could tell that rain was immanent because of the swarms of flies and mosquitos that flocked to my unprotected skin – in spite of the fact that I am Group A+ - and not their favourite tipple of Group O. And these flies did not take an angry sweep for an answer, relying on their insect speed to avoid any exasperated hand movements, and resettle on the tastier parts of my epidermis with smug pity for my leaden reactions!
It was when the spots of rain developed a more insistent rhythm that I decided to call it a day and pay up and go. It turned out that I was ahead of the storm and reached the house before the weather truly broke.
As is usual here in Castelldefels, even in the middle of a downpour, you can still see patches of blue in the sky as a visible sign of the unspoken promise of the weather in this area that, “this too will pass,” but with the added adjective proviso of, “soon”. That, anyway, is what I believe. It may sometimes be delusion, but like all firm delusions, it keeps me happy and hopeful!
I have spent some time re-editing a poem I wrote recently called, “On Looking Into the Eyes of a Hoverfly” the newest version of which can be found at
https://smrnewpoems.blogspot.com/
I have almost reached the stage where I could compile a slim volume of poetry based solely on the number of poems I have written on insect life and my interactions with it. Though I won’t.
Though I will try and add new work to that blog on a more regular basis than I have in the immediate past.
I do urge readers to click the “follow” button in my blogs so that you can get the most recent additions.
PS We have just had another mobile phone alert telling us that "the rain is going to stop soon" and with that message the rain instantly increased in intensity with a gratuitous roll of thunder complete with lightning! Nature will not be digitally contained!
