I think the reason why Britain gets caught out by TheWeather ALL the time is that we are too arrogant to assume it will affect us. Other countries change their plans every day according to what is going on OutThere – you know, in the world. Over the past three weeks we have learned to wake up and just see, in fact now I think about it we’ve been doing this over the last 16 months, since moving to Singapore. TheWeather is enormous and you do what it wants, not the other way around. A small Cornish neighbor, when I was a girl, was taught a little Q&A mantra by her big sister:

Q: What’s the sea? A: Sea’s the master

So I don’t mind that our fishing trip with friends is cancelled today, I can see from my view all down the cliff road that the Clontarf palm trees are bending and the kookaburras are clinging on. We will just take a picnic to a shady cove instead.

It’s good, this travel thing. Makes you think.