We had heavy rain today. We had 10.75 mm of rain, and about half of that fell between 1:30 and 1:45 pm. That may not sound remarkable until you consider that we had just 0.2 mm throughout the whole of July.

The Local Excellence Market went ahead. But the Goldwing Treffen club didn’t go ahead with the 5 pm multinational ride-through Abingdon. There were still some people who turned up to watch, and they cheered when a delivery motorcycle went past.

Otherwise, we got something unheard-of for this summer: puddles.