Mirage
Something strange happened last night. At least, I think it happened - it was possibly a mirage but I don't think so. At about 8.30 pm, I went out into our garden ( American: yard ) in order to put away my electric "Bosch" lawnmower and its associated cable reel for I had been cutting grass in the afternoon. Items safely stored away, I then came back into the house to wallop the keys on this very keyboard. It must have been about half an hour later that some water fell down from the sky. Not much of it but enough to wet the cars, the pavement and the lawn. I asked Shirley what it was and she googled it. Apparently it was what is commonly called "rain". Anyway, the "rain" lasted less than ten minutes and it was not particularly heavy. It was the first rain we had seen in six weeks in what has been Yorkshire's driest ever spring - well the driest on record anyway. It seems that more of this rainwater could fall in the next few days. Farmers and ...