The big rains
June 1st 2010 Last week the sky opened and it hosed down, then drizzeled, then hosed down again for days on end. The normally tame Leith, a genteel river that trickles through the northern town, gardens and university, turned into a raging white water torrent, much to my glee. The students also were delighted and got sporting enough to go kayaking and boogie board surfing down it, despite a police warning and t
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