Kathryn: I am not very outdoorsy, to put it mildly; and, as I have

mentioned on The Corner, find it wellnigh impossible to read while sitting

in the garden, or on a beach. So when Rosie urges me to go sit outside

because the weather’s lovely, my stock reply is: “What — and get struck by

a meteorite?”

(I confess I have plagiarized this from some American comedian of long ago,

but I can’t remember which one.)