Today is the day when tradition says St Swithin (the very first BBC weather man) decides if it’s going to rain every day for the next forty days.
This summer (2012) nobody gives a toss about ‘St Swithin’s Day’. This is because it has already rained for over forty days and three quarters of Britain is already under water.
Either this St Swithin’s weather curse thing is a load of cobblers and will slam everything into reverse or the day will simply emphasise that we should continue filling our sandbags, breeding endless numbers of slugs to destroy what little flowers there are in the garden and to go for that elusive ‘world rainfall record’.
(shouts) ‘Okay! Plug it in and switch it on… I’m ready!’
