The Pitter Pattering continues

I think it rained all night. I was going to try and sleep in the studio so I could
hear the rain loud and clear. In fact I remember reading about two Japanese interior
designers who put microphones on the roof so they could hear the rain and made
a picture window in the roof so they could see it. Now that would be relaxing and
very cosy to be on the inside, rather than the outside.

Appropriately enough I am reading Roger Deakin's Waterlog. A fabulous look

at wild swimming all through the British Isles, with a fine flourish of history and

unusual detail throughout. Of course he is an x Cambridge boy, so he knows how

to do this! This is how I would like to write and I am working on it. Deakin writes

'walking, cycling and swimming will always be subversive activities. They allow us

to regain a sense of what is old and wild in these islands by getting off the beaten track and breaking

free of the official vesion of things. There are still places with mystery, like darkness, mist, woods

or mountains. I would add the sea and rivers also which is where Deakin applies

his sight and instincts.

Now