Pressure

Text of the day: “Ten o’clock in the morning it’s baking hot, the beach is packed. By midday, there’s a howling wind and the Punch and Judy man has packed up for the day. By two o’clock, the rain is horizontal, but by four o’clock… the sun is beating down again and it’s eighty degrees. Nothing is predictable about British weather, that’s why we love to talk about it.” (Stagg in David Haig’s Pressure)

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