Who Forgot To Pay The Sun Tax?

It's sort of raining today. When I say, "sort of", I mean that "raining" doesn't quite do justice to the volume of water being delivered in vertical-downward and horizontal-sideways directions. Plus, there is the accompaniment of Hitchcockian sound effects suitable for the high towers of  Heathcliff's country estate.

I think we will batten hatches and run under bare-poles today whilst issuing a extra ration of rum to ourselves under the pretext of warding off the flue - porcine or otherwise.

Fortunately, we have a very large HDTV on which we can watch a wide range of ancient Brit programmes most of which have a cheerful and uplifting obsession with WW2.

What it is to have a positive outlook and optimistic view of life ...