Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Winter....

This evening's news had a report about the first fall of snow on top of Mt. Fuji. It was 18 days earlier than normal. Not even the end of the second week of September, a ball yet to be kicked in anger in this year's All Ireland football final and I'm already writing about snow. Why?


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