Daily Mail, October 23rd, 2003
AN UNFAMILIAR sound wakes me with a start - it's the patter of raindrops on the window pane. Barely able to suppress my excitement I jump out of bed and draw back the curtain. Rain lashes down across our valley, whipped up by a brisk breeze. At last! A proper, drenching, miserable West Country morning. I feel an urge to rush outside and dance in joyful celebration. I fear it won't last. I've begun to think it's never really going to rain again: the depression will pass and the skies will clear, I tell myself. Once more the fields and woods will sink back into the suffocating grip of drought...
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