poliphilo

"A wet May means a dry summer," says Ailz. I've no idea if this snippet of weather lore is actually true but it's a nice thing to be thinking in a May that is turning out to be very wet indeed.

Hadley Freeman has an interview with William Shatner in this morning's Guardian- which makes him sound like a wise old bird- also mischievous and mercurial. There used to be a suspicion that he took himself rather too seriously but perhaps that was just an act because he doesn't now. She asks him what he wishes he'd known at 20 that he knows at 90- and he says,

“Here’s an interesting answer!... I’m glad I didn’t know because what you know at 90 is: take it easy, nothing matters in the end, what goes up must come down. If I’d known that at 20, I wouldn’t have done anything!”