October 2000

Wet morning.

October 7th. Horrible weather, cold and rainy.

October 9th. Bright sunny cold morning. But ending with a wild rainy, windy night, quite good.

October 12th. Rotten wet weather - incredibly wet week we're having.

October 18th. Miserable dark wet day.

October 20th. Dark day, with heavy rain in the afternoon and evening.

October 21st. Miserable weather; dark with frequent rain.

October 23rd. Cleaning the house lifted my spirits despite the miserable weather.

October 27th. Miserable wet weather all day. Wasn't too brought down by it.

October 28th. Weather wet again but windy enough to be interesting.

October 29th. Bright, cold, windy weather. By late afternoon very interesting, with very heavy rain and stronger wind.

October 30th. Very strong wind and very heavy rain all night and this morning.

October 31st. Bright morning, simultaneous early rain - rather soft, sunny, dreamlike landscape as I drove through the floods.

'The second wettest October in a century' [...]