Early Morning Wake Up Call

I was woken up this morning by someone throwing water all over me and, before you get any funny ideas, that someone was Mother Nature®.

Remember I'd said how hot and humid it's been here? Remember I'd said I had all the windows open (and therefore an insect encrusted ceiling)? Well MN® decided that enough was enough and I was to be warned about my blase attitude to the weather. How dare I go shopping in flipflops when it's raining? What gave me the right to sit around in my gallebaya in the middle of the night and then sleep naked with no covers over me? it's wrong, it's indecent and I had to pay! (grammatically, that sentence is all over the shop and yet it feels right - oh the highs and lows of being a native speaker English Language teacher. Anyway...)

Very early this morning, too early for me to check the clock, MN® started a rainstorm and, being a mischievous sort of force, she decided to change the direction of the wind - just for a few minutes you understand - while throwing as much water out of the sky as possible. The outcome of this was several fold. Firstly, I was woken up by water hitting me even though I had the wooden shutters down (like in Milan); secondly my poor laptop and all the associated electrics (which live next to a window that was also left wide open) got drenched; thirdly I was running around naked at stupid o'clock, shutting windows, mopping up puddles of water, drying off hardware and trying not to get electrocuted. I am very grateful that (touch wood) nothing seems to have stopped working and I'm still in one piece.

The sun is trying to break through the cloud cover at the moment but I don't have much hope of its success. Oh, and all the insects have gone.