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Storms Are the Poetic Names
Storms are the pathetic names, aren't they? We're supposed to be frightened of a storm called dudley. Eunice is good. Fly busted. Mc busted. Vites. But storms seem to be worse now than they were then - apart from obviously ye classic in 19 87 and but yer, when i was a kid, sommon's fence had been blown down in tatedville,. would make the news. It's like when you watch the t v programmes that upset mary whitee so much in the sixties. And yet, old fashioned names have so come back in. No babies are called things like carol or pauline any more