monkey love

It was at about this time last year when the heavy rains and localised floods of March came to subside, leaving us with a rather conspicuously dry April. This year, things are seemingly back to normal, with traditional April showers running riot. There has been sunshine, hail, rain, sleet, wind and calm all within minutes of each other, but more often at the same time; a tangible oxymoron.

Dressing appropriately for your day is the stuff of nightmares, but the overall effect on the world outside can be so beautiful; a play on light, and shadow, wet and dry; it is the season for rainbows.

In more than one of the former colonies, they say that when the sun shines and the heavens pour, the monkeys are getting married.

This year, April in the United Kingdom is a simian honeymoon orgy.