Wow - torrential rain like I've not seen before for a long time. Pavement and road are indistinguishable when I look out of the window - is it like this elsewhere?

It was a couple of hours ago, down here on the coast; but it's cleared up nicely now. I think this front is moving northwards, so Croydon should be dry soon...!

We have no rain at all at present, but the sky looks dull and grey.  We had a glorious day yesterday.

It says on my newspage that 2 months' rain will fall in one day in parts of the country but it seems to be from Wales across the Midlands and down, so we might be lucky up here.  In fact we've been very lucky altogether so far.

I hope I don't regret saying that. 

Bright and dry in Cornwall.....keep your brollies up xx

Ok it's raining now.  Just normal at the moment  - nothing spectacular yet.  The dog won't want to go out anyway, he hates the rain.  I'll just have to push him (literally) into the garden and he'll shoot back in like a rocket as soon as he possibly can.

As you'll see if you tune in to the Open it's grey but dry here, today. A couple of days ago we drove up to the wonderful House of Dun, not far north of here, where we sat outside the stable yard in hot sun having a scone tea. Twenty minutes later as we drove back, there was a violent thunderstorm, with visibility so poor that I needed to slow the car right down to walking pace: the topsoil was being rinsed off the hills onto the road in sheets. Yet five minutes later the next town, Forfar, was completely dry and in bright sunshine again. The storms seem to be very localised.

A, would that be a Yaris in your drive, by any chance?

Yeah our garden slopes that way too, clay soil so water isn't soaked up, the water on the patio runs either into our drain or into next door's and from his onto the street. We're near the top of a bit of slightly 'higher' ground, half mile from nearest river and flood plain,  so you'd think we'd have no flood problems but, because of the clay soil, last weekend we found the shed was sitting over a pool of water so had to dig a narrow channel from the patio (where there's a drain) up to the shed and release the water. A nice flow of water down the channel this morning, so I think that channel will become a permanent garden feature!