How we giggled when our English master introduced us to the idea of the pathetic fallacy. ‘Don’t think much of your fallacy, pretty pathetic if you ask me’, we’d say to one another. We were schoolboys, after all. Twenty-five years ago, there was the Great Storm. I returned from a meeting plotting the revolutionary overthrow…

A happy sumnmer solstice to you. Sunrise: 4:46 Sunset: 21.17