Holidays (so variable blogging for two weeks)

I go on my annual two weeks tomorrow. It is raining here in Auckland today, and the promise is for rain well into March. I remember that before Christmas someone suggested that we were in for a settled and pleasant summer. One cheerful meteorologist in the news yesterday suggested that saps like me did not understand the difference between climate (settled patterns) and weather (what results day-to-day from those patterns). This may well be true, but it also strikes me that La Nina patterns are predictable (once begun) and do tend to produce this miserable match of one warm day and three of blustery rain.

Still, I will pack the clubs and the rod and the Kindle, and the odd bottle of red, and will enjoy whatever the elements throw at me. I have just begun AS Byatt's "The Children's Book", which looks to be a great start to holiday reading - any book that engages with William Morris makes me happy.