Friday, February 14/2014

M to dinner for spaghetti. Would have been her wedding anniversary had Magne still been alive, and Valentine's Day of course. In aid of which I go over to Prinos in the afternoon to get a couple of courgettes to add to the sauce now simmering. Forecast is for a passing shower and it does start to drizzle so I take an umbrella. Bit of thunder and lightning but not much rain. Decide that I am unlikely to be a lightning rod with plenty of higher spots around to draw fire. Am all the way there when it occurs to me that the unaccustomed lightness is down to not having taken a handbag. Fortunately there are 67 euro cents in my pocket and two courgettes at €1.59 a kilo come ti €0.55, so that's all right. Just get back with courgettes and umbrella when the deluge hits, with heavy sheets of rain and violent wind, followed by hail. Some passing shower! Umbrella would have been useless.