Wednesday 31/08/05

Very dreich day with the promise of sunshine later. Go to town at 1130, only to find the shoeshop closed for today. Have to wait for an hour for the computer with the scanner. Read an interesting book by Tex Geddes, the 1940s sharkhunter who teamed up with Gavin Maxwell of otter fame. Together they ran the Isle of Soay Shark Fisheries. When I leave the library it's pissing down with rain and this never stops for another 8 hours. By then, a last ray of sunshine peeps through to light up the Arnish hills. A small rainbow stands above the Coastguard station. Later on, the rain resumes. Devastation by Hurricane Katrina is just beyond belief. The states bordering the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, have basically been flattened.