Men's final day

Weather - 18C and very wet

What a minging day. I bet the Frenchies are glad they've got a market on today. There's absolutely nobody about.
Me? Well I'm on my own in the office. Not for the first and I'm sure not for the last either. Think this could be the start of the cost cutting exercises although it's difficult to know what costs they'll cut apart from this. It running at bare-bones anyway. We'll see.....

So 1:30pm and two phone calls so far. One of them David just checking that I'm not dying of boredom, which surprisingly I'm not. Actually, what with writing Doreen a letter and giving over some time to the Shunt website, I've had quite a productive morning. Now listening to F1 from Silverstone (for the penultimate time. Donnington in two years time). Not sure whether the men's final will get underway at Wimbledon on time. The weather's not exactly set fair!

It's still teeming down out there. There are some very disgruntled looking stall holders smoking their Gouloises and chatting to each other under the cover of the stalls. Can't be much fun for a day trip can it? Looks like one of them has a leak in the roof as the umbrellas are suddenly going up despite the apparent shelter. I am at least in a nice warm, dry office with F1 on and headphones in.

2:24pm and the players are on court at Wimbledon. Well, it wouldn't be Wimbledon without a rain delay and there haven't been many this year so I guess they were due one. Federer v Nadal, yet again. At least they are both enjoyable players to watch unlike the Williams sisters who contested the women's final yesterday. Not that I have anything against them per se, but I just don't enjoy their brand of tennis.

And the rain gets heavier, if that were possible! Scattering the few brave enough to actually be out in this maelstrom. A veritable river is flowing through the middle of Berkhamsted High Street. The cars have their outboard motors on now (sounds like they might need them at Silverstone too!). Isn't funny how people lose the ability to look where they're going when the rain comes down? Several near-misses on the road already.

2:42pm Lewis Hamilton takes the chequered flag in the home Grand Prix. Sounds like they're quite happy about that in the stands!

Stone me, the sun's out. And so are the people! Where did they all come from. Must've all been hiding in Costa Coffee or something.........