TWO FLOODED ROADS, SEVERAL SHOWERS THEN 20C

A chap I met in Bedford this morning said that they'd had the rain for four days solid, typical soft southerners, I replied we'd had four weeks of the damn stuff up north - which is more or less true. Even when it hit 20C on the way home the sky turned black and it heaved it down again. The M1 and the A50 both had floods, the M6 had two lanes closed, washed away down the sink holes. Anyway I was up a 5 and spent many hours on the motorway but managed to grab a couple of hours filming, tomorrow I'll have a lay in to at least 8am before getting cracking with the next stage of work on the office and showroom/studio. This will see the fitted furniture in the former editing suite dismantled and erected in the office as a base for the new packing table and the cupboards mounted above.

Somewhere along the line I need to get yet more bird food, this awful weather has seen the birds desperate to feed their young and with the sparrowhawk seemingly gone the gold finches are in pandemic proportions with the green finches, tits etc  not far behind. That's a 30 kilo sack gone in less than two weeks, I say 30 kilo but haven't a clue what a kilo is, perhaps its a race or something, I know it caused me hassle with measuring up the new shelving units, I think I got centipedes mixed up with litres, perhaps if Boris is to lead us out of the EU into the arms of Trumpton we'll get British money, weights and measures back, roll on pounds shillings and pence, rods, poles and perches, I never did take to this decimation stuff, it was obvious when there were 240 pence in a quid how on earth are you meant to add up in hundreds and who over 50 can pick up a 5p on the table let alone the floor.

Anyway I digress a little and bring you Bedford this morning, very friendly drivers and just a shame about the two tramps, the Irish one was even embarrassing his pal, I tried to be pleasant after all we are all human beings but it was wasted effort. Shame as these incidents are the memories created from each visit. Bedford had a hopeless car park, the lifts were out of action and one pay machine was marked as out of order when in fact all were out of order unless you paid in cash, on the plus side I didn't have to pay.