His legacy for me was as a role model for reinventing yourself at turning points of life, for keeping active and curious, for ageing gracefully and for living a full life, every day at a time.

We all have our stories of the great hurricane of 1987. This one had a mysterious connection all the way from Switzerland.

‘Small world, isn’t it?’ ‘I just knew that would happen’ ‘What an amazing coincidence!’ We’ve all been there, but are they just coincidences? What else might be at work to help us?

The weather forecast is an educated guess about the glorious mixture of time and nature : what will blow round the world and when. We have a choice to deny it, adapt to it, or learn from it.