What is the Weather Like?

What is the Weather Like?

In some parts of the world, the common conversation starter is the weather. Reference will be made to the sun (or lack of), the wind (the strength of), the rain (abundance of), the cloud cover, the cold (extent of), whatever, and once that is out of the way, we can...
Taking a Beating

Taking a Beating

Confession time: how many readers have been beaten in their life? How many were beaten when they were at school? How many can still feel the effects of it? Of course, at the time, it may well have been considered a badge of honour among one’s peers, and even now some...