Politics and Weather

[Flash2001]

My grandfather was an officer in the Canadian Army when The Great War broke out. I recently found his diaries. On the page for August 4 1914 is the entry:

War declared, rain in the afternoon.

Gives a whole new meaning to the adjective "Laconic"

[Wensleydale]

...and the often used "storm clouds gathering over Europe".

[Laarbruch72]

Spike Milligan said something similar in one of his memoirs, they must have had the same sense of humour.

[MPN11]

May one mention "... broad, sunlit, uplands ..." by WSC?