Having endured months of unpleasantly cold weather and wind, the minute it starts warming up, people complain that they're 'boiling' - which they are manifestly not doing, the temperature remaining firmly stuck in the twenties, the point where the rest of us begin to thaw out and feel a bit cheerful (the question remains how a nation so unsuited to decent weather ever managed to acquire such a massive empire).

A wasp flew in the window this morning and there was even a completely limp thunderstorm this afternoon - a total of three lightning flashes and attendant thunder followed by a suggestion of precipitation - pathetic. That's undoubtedly our lot then - snow again next week.