In London, they need rain too

To London: 1st June 2003

I arrived back in London today. It’s a pleasant 28 degrees. SARS is still worrying the countries of the Far East. The Monsoon I suppose is busy watering a parched India. That empty feeling when coming back from India has arrived; India, provoker of thoughts, stoker of emotions and harbinger of doom for my digestive tract. Pushing open my front door, a barricade of junk mail tried to stop me entering. Gathering them all up like autumn leaves I placed them in the dustbin outside where my next-door neighbour said, “It’s been hot here mate, we could do with some rain...”

I knew the feeling and just smiled.