The most reliable weather report is the insomniac’s one: at 3.14am it is/was raining.

It was plunging auditory variety of rain. The rattle on the cottage roof quality to it. With a noticeable lack of any wind, yet a certain fresh and invigorating quality, as anyone who left the window open to go to sleep would note.

All those who forgot to water the garden today can sleep peacefully and at ease.