rain#1

Coming out of the cafe and a steamy cloud wafts around me, slowly being teased out and whipped away by the cruel wind that is lashing my face and howling in my ear. The wet of the rain is clouding my eyes and I see the crouched people in the street scurrying around, trying to do what they have to do as quickly as possible and go home, back to their houses where the rain is but an unwelcome caller tapping at the window and howling throught he letterbox, it's melancholy cries betraying the hostilities that swirled and moaned outside.
As I stepped forwards the tempest that this drizzle had become wrapped itself round me like an iron maiden, crushing and driving into me as I battled my way down the street trying to use a fat woman in front of me as a crude wind breaker. It worked. Walking along in the lea of this huge woman was better than trying to forge a path through this storm myself!Her gaggle of childeren are straggling around her, one, a child in reins, looks like an escaped kite being thrown about by the wind.