Chasing the old black dog
Mar 30th, 2009 | By Ian Poulton | Category: Personal ColumnsThe return of the light nights seems to have taken forever; the temperature still remains obdurately low. In former times, when being wealthy one day was still a dream, the idea of switching hemispheres at the equinoxes seemed attractive – France from March to September and Australia from September to March. No more grey Novembers; no dim, dark days of Christmas; no January blue Mondays; no searching for signs of spring in February. A recurrent dream was waking in the early hours of a January morning to see bright sunshine …