The Great Outdoors

Blue skies are overrated

REICHNESS AND DRIZZLE; mist and mizzle; plothering or pouring; spitting, stoating, raining cats and dogs, or just plain pissing it down. We all know the legend about Inuit cultures having 50 words for snow; but here on this windy archipelago on the Atlantic edge of Europe,

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