I have been working at a Grocers in Bristol this week. The weather started off fine, a nice sunny day as I drove into Bristol. Even ate lunch sitting outside in the sun at their staff canteen. Progressively the weather has got worse and ended on Wednesday evening with torrential rain. The end of the summer.

The tanker driver strike (which has not started) has caused panic buying with people in the office saying how they have queued up for 20 minutes waiting to fill up. I was lucky, filled up last night and there was not a queue in site. The Blasdale luck never fails.

Well maybe it does, last night was awoken by the fire alarm going off at 1.00 am. Trooped out of the hotel [Ed’s comment: And note he does not wear PJs] and stood in the rain. Remember I said torrential rain. After 5 minutes back into the hotel. Several false alarm bells after that required the pillow-over-the-head technique to block out the noise.