If this is ‘settled’ weather, I’d hate to see what they call ‘disturbed’

With some trepidation I logged on to Met Éireann’s website in order to see if the fine weather we enjoyed at the weekend had been just a fleeting taste of summer or the start of something more settled after our rain-soaked months of gloom.

The initial forecast for the week ahead sounded promising, stating: ‘The weather will be mostly settled for the rest of the week with good dry intervals and some sunshine, and just a few outbreaks of rain’.

A bit like Gaybo’s old “something for everybody in the audience” adage, and after closer inspection of the day-to-day forecast, I could only conclude that Met Eireann’s definition of “mostly settled” was a somewhat singular interpretation of the English language, considering that each day of the coming week held the threat of some sort of precipitation.