Most immigrants contribute to society, most want to become good British citizens and most strike me as more like us with every rainy day that passes.
In Katine, the two rainy seasons each year have been disrupted, with rainfall now irregular.
Almost 70% of South Sudan is inaccessible during the rainy season and WFP is using the current dry period to prepare for the coming downpour.
As he cannot afford to settle his whole family in Mumbai, Pujan visits them once a year during the rainy season, when he stays for four months to work on a farm for a contract of 3,000 rupees (£30).
Hence, on a rainy day in June, I found myself in a tiny court facing a judge.
"Why on earth would you insist on impractical windows one cannot properly open (to the inside, that is), and which you therefore cannot even really get clean other than from the outside by a window cleaner on a ladder?" asks the Kent University lecturer, who has spent almost 10 years on our rainy island.
On a rainy Friday morning, Nick Clegg, fresh from surviving the televised leaders' debates, was visiting the Fulwood Lodge Care Home in his constituency of Sheffield Hallam in the affluent southwest of the city.
Either that or have countless rainy Saturdays on the couch with a Sex and the City marathon.
On one occasion I was forced to buy secondhand pants and on an extremely rainy bank holiday in north Wales I lapsed and had to buy a waterproof after I lost my jacket.
More than just a simple building, the Waterbank School is a living infrastructure that harvests rainwater – 360,000 litres over the course of two rainy seasons – as well as being an education centre.
