The Rain Song

These are the seasons of emotion

And like the winds they rise and fall

This is the wonder of devotion-

I see the torch we all must hold.

This is the mystery of the quotient-

Upon us all a little rain

Must fall.

Just a little rain?

Ooooh, yeah yeah yeah!

Page/Plant, Houses of the Holy 1973. (Perhaps my favourite album cover and sleeve, certainly in my all time top 10).

Sometimes the metaphorical is preferable to the real thing. Into our lives a lot of rain fell the first week or so at BNTC. Unlike some of the rain we had in other places there really wasn’t a pattern. It rained at night, it rained in the morning, it rained in the afternoon. It rained gently, it came in torrents, it rained for a few minutes, an hour, a day. In between there was some sunshine but it overall it was WET, and one wet day we had a power cut 9am -5pm. The local soils have an amazing ability to dry out but the ground was usually sodden. The explanation? "It is the rainy season". However this one by all accounts has been wetter than most.