Clodagh Finn: If ever there was time to keep your head in the clouds, it is now

A damp Tuesday could be cheered up by a flying elephant or a glimpse of a Tricirrustops — a Triceratops dinosaur in cirrus, get it? — flying overhead.

A Daily Cloud, a project by iChris Judge an illustrator, artist and children’s picture-book author based in Dublin.

Some weeks ago, when the ground underfoot was less sodden, I saw a woman lying on the grass while doing my daily laps of the local park. At first, I thought she had fallen but as I approached to check, she waved me away saying she was okay, pointing skyward.

I got it straight off. She was cloud-gazing, an activity that might have been somewhat niche in the pre-Covid years, but one that seems not only reasonable but necessary now. Who could question the benefit of peering into the vast heavens to ease the claustrophobia of locked-down life on earth?