Wet Bank Holiday in Berko

Weather - 10C and very wet and windy

Sitting in the office, alone but for the sound of the wind whistling around the old building and the company of Aggers on TMS. Had a few visits and phone calls but mainly listening to TMS online through my headphones. Strauss has just been caught after completing his century. But now Pietersen should finish the job against the Kiwis. Sounds bloody windy up in Old Trafford! Pretty windy here as I watch the DD sign flying almost horizontally in the wind. The rain hasn't let up all day and anyone who has come in has looked thoroughly disheveled and fed up! I, on the other hand, am quite warm and dry. Oh dear, Pietersen's run himself out! The wife has just got home from Poole. It's taken her an age in the weather and what with the Bank Holiday traffic I don't think it's been an enjoyable drive somehow. Looking forward to seeing the baby boy, three days seems a long time without him.

Not a lot to see through the grubby windows apart from the odd bedraggled shopper dragging the family along the road. There aren't a lot of shops open apart from the main chain stores and they certainly aren't doing a brisk business. I think Laura Ashely is winning in the footfall stakes and God knows what people are venturing in there for! Perhaps they're offering free tea and coffee. Speaking of which I think that's what I'm going to do right now, after I've locked the front door. Obviously this will spark the rush of people clamouring to put their houses on the market. Well, maybe not. I think there have been a grand total of four couples in today and about the same amount of phone calls. One of which was Anna to see how I was doing. Bless her! It's like having a mum at work (or in this case on the other end of the phone), she does worry a bit.

It's days like this that leave you wondering what the future has in store for this branch although I don't suppose there's that much excitement in any of the estate agents in Berko today.