Wet days
Jul 29th, 2009 | By Ian Poulton | Category: Personal Columns“The only bit of blue sky now is where there are rain clouds that are darker than the sky around”.
“Perhaps it will brighten up.”
Looking east, across Saint George’s Channel, the horizon was a fuzzy line where the leaden sky met the greyness of the Irish Sea. The wind whipped in from the west, as biting as a winter’s day.
The ship’s master announced that he was sure passengers would be pleased to know that last night’s storm had passed and that, although a swell remained, the ship was…