on weather

This truly is a big city. An open and thriving multicultural melting pot. But despite the famous reserve of its inhabitants, it also has a disturbing sense that it could lurch at any moment into complete social disorder. But of course it doesn't, it's difficult to be enthusiastic about social disorder when it's always bloody raining.

The desire for anarchy and violence quickly dissipates when your umbrella has soaked through and is dripping down the back of your neck, but that doesn't matter because your socks have been drenched through for the last half hour and it still wont stop raining...