That was a particularly good Calling. I wish I'd stayed at it longer, in fact: I left it at around midnight in the hope of getting some sleep, then came home and had insomnia until 4am. If I'd known that would happen I'd have stayed for at least another hour! Bah.

Ye gods. I stepped out of the office to walk to Tesco and buy lunch, protected by a small umbrella which seemed more than adequate to the light spotting rain.

I had gone about three hundred metres when the heavens opened to such an astonishing extent that I immediately declared defeat and turned back. In the course of returning those 300 metres I became almost entirely soaked from the elbows down.

I think I shall stay indoors for the rest of lunchtime and eat my emergency food. And drip.