Elasticity of a drought

On April 5 they announced the hosepipe ban in England. On April 6 it started to rain .... and rain, and rain. April showers as they say and so it has been with records likely to be broken in the month. The big Bewl water reservoir in Kent dropped to only 35% full but the way things are going it will be filling up soon. Every now and again there is a tremendous clap of thunder with attendant lightning. Not like the gigantic rolling thunderstorms you get in Joburg; rather these isolated and rather shocking one-offs that seem to come from nowhere. As if to say: I'm just cheeky, not bad. Walking down to the village this morning to exchange library books I had the brolly up and eyes on the pavement ahead. This is the best way to spot elastic bands. London is a city of elastic bands, they are everywhere. If you are looking you will seldom walk more than a couple of hundred metres and you'll see one. It took me a while to work this out and then I realised: it's the postmen. They jettison them as they make their rounds. The QSL is from Enigma 846, Trans Kent Radio, a pirate that used to operate on AM on Sundays and heard in Otford, Kent in 2002.