writer's moll

Listening to the reporter from Sky News asking witnesses to the tornado that hit London yesterday, to describe their area and how they felt about the terrible damage that had been wreaked upon it, I wondered what would have happened if such questions had been asked in a courtroom. I can’t help feeling that before they could respond that they were “agog” and “aghast” that a tornado had struck their “very nice area, with a real mix of people” (as if tornados usually strike only nasty places that deserve it) someone would have jumped up and said “objection your Honour, she’s leading the witness”. A consoling factor of this unusual phenomenon apparently, was that it had brought the residents together as a community, including a lady who hadn’t been out of her house for two years, who’d finally seen the light of day when her roof was blown off