Fine Print: South Utsire. Thursday 3 August 1995. Northwesterly 4, increasing 5 or 6, occasionally 7. Drizzle at time. Moderate with fog patches at first. Micha Bar-Am Fine Prints Switzerland

Switzerland

That’s why they had the quizzical faces

but I was in a bit of a rut

with red dirt fields of peanuts and cotton flying by

dutifully carrying a shade over Gilot’s head

Fine Print: South Utsire. Thursday 3 August 1995. Northwesterly 4, increasing 5 or 6, occasionally 7. Drizzle at time. Moderate with fog patches at first. Micha Bar-Am Fine Prints SwitzerlandIntangible and mysterious, familiar yet obscure, the Shipping Forecast is broadcast four times daily on BBC Radio 4. For those at, or about to put to sea, the forecast may mean the difference between life and death. But for millions of landlubbing radio listeners it is more than this; the enigmatic language of the forecast has entered public consciousness, creating a landscape of the imagination and confirming romantic notions of Britain's island