Thursday extracts: weather forecast from Ian Rankin

Rain wasn't falling yet, but it had scheduled an appointment.

Standing in Another Man's Grave
Ian Rankin
2012

fff55: Rain rain rain

After the sunshine comes the long-awaited rain. Weeks of drier-than-usual weather have left the ground parched and dusty. The garden needed it desperately. Farmers were crying out for it to save their crops.  Fields of vegetables were dying for a drink.  But it might have arrived just in time to wreck this year’s grain harvest.

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The British on holiday

Umbrellas out, swathed in plastic sheet clothes, clutching ice creams, hot dogs, waffles: the British are determined to enjoy their holidays, even when it rains!