Sunday 3rd June

There is nothing quite like warm Summer rain, so different from the cold biting pellets of winter.  Here the plangent plash of gentle droplets is cool and refreshing, and cling to leaves and flowers like early morning dew.  And there is nothing quite like the smell, it is quite unique and so evocative, it takes you right back to childhood.  The very grass seems to smell fresher, and is the greenest green you will ever see, the pavements, sticky with sap and days of dry weather are washed clean in a few minutes, and as it is only a passing shower, though it may inconvenience for a few minutes, you know it will soon clear up and again in no time the sun will have evaporated the water and the pavements be drying as you watch them.  But now breathe in and smell that rain as it is absorbed back into the air, only to fall on someone else.   Enjoy it while you can, as too soon it will be Winter again.