Typical English Summer...

Two months of rain in just one day - no wonder half of England is under water! I knew I was going have some difficulty getting home when they started pumping water out of our office. Fortunately, the District Line from Temple to Victoria was relatively dry, but other parts of the underground had been transformed into underwater canals.

Victoria Station was heaving with people. I'd been through this scenario a couple of times before - the slightest adverse weather conditions and the public transport infrastructure collapses, so I just jumped on any train heading south. It was the Brighton train (one of the last for the day as it turns out) and it got me as far as East Croydon.

From there I started walking...

This afternoon I sat, shivering under an umbrella in the beer garden of a country pub in the pouring rain. I guess it's just a typical English Summer...