Badly Needed Rain Comes At The Wrong Time!

There we were last Saturday checking the 3-hour forecast every half-hour, sneaking a glance out the back window over the river and then, not liking what we saw, seeing what the heavens had to say on the park side of the house. This is Wexford dammit, normal weather conditions don't apply here. If the forecast says "sunshine and showers in the southeast" one instinctively knows that Carlow and Kilkenny will get the showers while Wexford gets the sunshine. And then it came down. In a Biblical way. You could almost see the parched yellow-tinged grass greening up before your eyes.

So we called off the picnic. And, as if to taunt us, the sun came out so hot there was steam rising. But at that point we were almost willing the rains to return so as to justify our decision to cancel, to prove we were not being defeatist. And the rains came again.

Today is Mid-Summer's Day. Imagine. Where did that six months go! Local businesses had sold over a thousand tickets for a Mid-Summer's Evening Street Party. And this was to be a street party in the continental sense - beer and food stalls, live music, dancing and everyone wanting to be there. Then the rains came again and everything was moved indoors. But let's not let it end there. I say we organise another street party just to show it can work, and to show we can party like our southern European cousins. The sun will shine, the band will play and the beer will flow. Networking will rub shoulders with romance, fences will be mended, new alliances forged, and all will be right with the world.

As for the Picnic in the Park that is definitely going to happen before the Summer is out. We are talking to The Man in Donegal about the medium term weather prospects. Stand by!