The world from my window

Typical.  The sky's clouded over now we're due a spectacular red lunar eclipse . The so-called Blood Moon should be on show tonight from nine o'clock until quarter past ten. But it doesn't look likely from where I'm standing, as the sky is currently a light grey. Shame. Still, we need the rain, and the little we've had so far today is not even as much as the salt and vinegar the lady in the chip van puts on my Tuesday night treat of battered sausage, chips and curry sauce. I wish the heavens would open, spill their load and then the clouds part just before nine o'clock to reveal an orb of striking red. If wishes were horses, I'd have enough to enter the Grand National for each year of my life. The lunar eclipse would be a fitting end to the working week in which people in un-air conditioned offices have sweltered and local builders worked in the heat on rooftops and took on the shape of human finials. Trees stooped in the hedgerows, g...