It has been dismal outdoors these last few days: from drizzle to full-blooded shower to merciless deluge, all in the space of a few minutes. The long light evenings are being lost beneath leaden skies, compelling some of us to take shelter indoors and reluctantly watch the football.
I was briefly in the US last week. Not an easy thing to do, it taking so long to get there (though having said that, it has taken me almost as long to drive to the south coast in the summer holidays). But two and a bit days is plenty of time to see all there is to see, provided you get yourself organised and don't dawdle. After all, how much is there to do in Philadelphia? Unfortunately, I did not get to find out. It was one of those visits where you go from airport to hotel (in the middle of nowhere) to research site (down the road from the middle of nowhere) back to hotel back to research site back (through heavy traffic) to airport. But there were some nice dinners along the way to soften the disappointment.
On a sad note, there has been another appalling mass shooting, this time in Orlando. These events occur now with depressing regularity. Political commentary in the US and back here in the UK seems stuck on issues of immigration, fuelling blinkered nationalist views which are unlikely to make the world a safer place.
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