Neil Porteous mentioned the word “dreach” to describe the gloomy rainy day that greeted us at the start of our Forum at Clandeboye this year. After a quick glance at uncle Google, I found another 50 words the Scots use to describe rain in Scotland so was relieved to see that in Ireland, The DailyEdge journalist Michael Freeman has offered a modest 11 stages of the wet stuff.   We came across a couple of them during our Forum in October. Level 1: Grand soft day (thank God)    How to spot: Grey out, just a thick mist, not too cold, might rain later. In other words, conditions are normal. Level… Read more »

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