The colour of the sky outside is grey… it’s raining and I am cold. The weather forecast suggests that it will rain for the next few days.

This is the first time I have seen rain in the last three weeks… it is the first time I have seen a cloud in the last three weeks. It is also the first time I have been cold in the last three weeks.

Of course, it’s because I am back in England.

So whilst it is getting colder, wetter and more generally autumnal in the UK, and heading towards who know what sort of winter, in Qatar the summer is also ending.

The autumn to spring months in Doha will be more temperate, akin to the best summer days in the UK… very hot but not quite too hot… not to everyone’s taste, but for me certainly preferable… there is even the forecast of rain in Qatar.