After The Storm

It took me an hour to do the 25 minute journey from school to David and Kelly's house up the coast. The rain was biblical and the roads awash.

Traffic queued for kilometres in both directions, sometimes crawling along, sometimes not.

But eventually I got there. We had a terrific dinner at a local restaurant, very reasonable and good service. Then a few post-prandials in the bar next door, before staggering home again.

Of course, it was then necessary to put the world to rights for a couple hours round the kitchen table with the port and brandy.