| Back on the streets of Edinburgh, she bids a cheery farewell, braces her brolly against the raging tempest, and heads for the shops. |
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| It was the rain, you see, slanting down at just the right angle to make the brolly work for its living. |
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| Take a rod pod as the banks are very hard and a brolly or bivvy as the sun can be very strong. |
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| When I set off for work this morning, I forgot to take into account the strong northerly winds, and took my brolly instead of a waterproof. |
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| I sent my husband looking for a clear brolly so everyone can see the hat through it. |
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| Umbrella Woman also clearly approved as she had taken her brolly down and was waving it like a light saber. |
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| I had my brolly with me but did not fancy battling the umbrella-wielding wave of civil servants. |
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| And it's very handy, because it let's me know when I should bring a brolly. |
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| So I donned my wellington boots, put on my waterproof coat and my oilskin hat, grabbed my brolly and went out for a short walk in the rain. |
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| A brolly is owned by most anglers but not as many take guide ropes and tent pegs. |
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| Anyway, should the weather continue to be about as decisive as my girlfriend in a shoe shop, here are a couple of suggestions of what to do when you forget your brolly. |
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| Complete with two side pockets, a larger one designed to store a brolly and a smaller one for banksticks. |
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| We have been a few times now but never manage to keep the brolly up for long as there is a breeze. |
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| Lifelong Robins fan Gerald Woodvine, 60, from Calne, even spent a chilly night sleeping on a deck chair under a brolly so he could be guaranteed a ticket. |
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| Finally she tossed her crippled brolly to the road and walked on in the rain and wind, as if unburdened, suddenly, by the knowledge that it was just rain after all. |
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| I remember my mother standing exasperated in the rain with the brolly over her head at dusk while I frog-kicked around in my speedos. |
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| She could see the lines, and at the end of them the trembling shadows of Bert, or Mike, or Stan, spending an idle Sunday away from the wife with a brolly and a can of beer. |
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| A quick glance at the clouds flitting across the sky each morning is usually enough to decide whether to leave the brolly behind or grab a mackintosh and galoshes. |
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| If it is still too early to lampoon Mr Cameron as Steve McClaren, bemusedly wandering up and down the Downing Street dugout beneath his brolly, there is no sign whatever of the political and economic weather improving. |
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| Pete Musson compiled three breaks of 22 in his preliminary round victory over Paul Brolly. |
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