Rain stops play

• 18.03.2024 21:16 UTC+01:00
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The headline says it all. The Welsh Harp, a reservoir in north-west London which acts as part of the capital's flood defences, has been drained for maintenance work. But the work's taking longer than anticipated, since the unusually wet weather—I'm not sure what that means for Britain in late winter, because it's usually pissing down—keeps refilling it.

To (probably mis)quote Oscar Wilde on the death of Little Nell: you'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.