Skyfall

When he was a little boy, my Josh used to call the horizon the skyfall. Such a great word, he seemed to have made it up all by himself. Before long, the whole family was using it as we took walks by the sea near our new coastal home. I was fascinated by the word and wondered where it had come from. The idea of the sky falling in is a very old one that features in at least one play from the days of ancient Rome. The Latin legal phrase fiat justitia ruat caelum translates as: ‘Let justice be ...