This is the kind of grey, windy fag-end of summer where nothing happens.

Thunderstorms yesterday evening and early this morning - woken up at 5 am by the latter. Thundered incredibly loud in the afternoon.

August 23rd. It turned out that I couldn't have gone to that party yesterday anyway: because of landslips the railway was blocked.

'Violent thunderstorms broke out on the 21st ... 77 mm at Chigwell Row (Essex) on the 22nd. Flooding in Essex on the 22nd.' [...]

Drove round the country lanes in the heat-haze.

Not a cloud in the sky all day, before 11 pm. Very hot.

Sun for an hour at 10.30am but just as I set out for work in the afternoon it started to piss down with rain - I got there soaked.