Gloomy, humid morning, but cooler. In the afternoon the weather cleared, sunny but not quite so insanely hot as yesterday.

Again very hot, but cloudier than yesterday.

Excellent thunderstorm at 4 am. Very hot day. Quite ridiculous at work. Internet radio very calming though.

Walked home at a gentler pace than normal. Cold tea. I'm all for good weather but this is ridiculous.

Gorgeous weather. Very hot all night: had windows open. Unusual.

Had cold lunch. There were some impressive cumulo-nimbus, one with very good anvil head, but no thunder so far. That wonderful sort of orangey-red hazy far-off appearance in the biggest clouds, and them much more 'intricate' than fair-weather Cu, i.e. with far more turbulence.

Very hot today, strolled through park in idyllic weather.

Striking sunset with aurora-like upwards illumination of dark, flat clouds in west above sun.

Cloudy start, clearing throughout the day to a beautiful evening, with a vast clear sky like an inverted pool of water, birds circling high in it and a huge sun resting on the horizon at 9pm.

Rather more cloud today, with some exciting vertical development and a thunderstorm passing nearby.

Wonderful weather. Hot, with fair-weather cumuli. While out shopping drove slowly between Monkspath and Ferry Farthingale taking in the sunlit countryside and feeling grateful.

Home and chilled out generally. I love it when I open windows on all four sides of the house and fill the place with sunlight and breeze.

Towards the end of the night had a great dream about allowing myself to be blown by the wind up into the sky - a white sky filled with sunlit rain.

Rather cloudier start than previous days, but pretty nice in the afternoon and evening.

Beautiful day again. Had sunburn from yesterday, so stayed inside with doors and windows open for a cool, bright house.

Beautiful weather again. Very hot. Dispensed with jacket for Quaker meeting. In the afternoon lay and looked up into the sky, being strongly reminded of July 1981 for some reason.

Lovely weather with big white cumuli.

Weather turned dark but sort of cosily dull in the afternoon.

While I was fixing the curtain pole something happened that seemed to justify not going to Hengrave this year. When I remember being there I always think of one warm afternoon with really heavy rain falling onto the garden, and me watching it from the open window. Just the same thing happened today! Surely a message.

Sunny with two heavy showers, one at 1pm and one at 3pm. Sheltered from the second outside the Co-op. It's amazing how less threatening a place becomes if you just stand there for 10 minutes.

Felt rather better today despite miserable weather in the morning: grey with constant drizzle. Rain stopped about 2pm; strolled up the hill for a walk round town. Home to evening sunlight, and less humid atmosphere.

Weather grey and dull in the afternoon - I felt kind of low and 'wintry'. But it's raining rather determinedly now, kind of washing away the low mood.

Another grey, miserable day. Drizzling in the morning.

Miserable weather (dark, damp and rainy) and miserable identity card news to go with it. I hate David Blunkett so much. I know that he is lying when he talks about 'entitlement' and 'helping people', and I know he knows he's lying.

Rotten headache all day. Grey weather didn't help - fortunately the sun came out in the afternoon and headache was gone after tea.