I am away in France from 5 to 23 July- starting to prepare for that. In the meantime, I've been busy uploading my weather records into the internet; finally finished doing so yesterday, so that's that done! Meanwhile, this month looks set to break all kinds of weather records for the wrong reasons (e.g. record flooding, June locally in the northeast, the dullest of any month since Feb/Mar 2006!) I expect to be updating my website with monthly data not long after the turn of each month, rather like Paul Tall does with his Newton Aycliffe summaries.

Other than that, had an enjoyable bowling alley trip on 24 June with my mates (as I often do at around birthday-time), and been raising some laughs at some of the Tom & Jerry DVD cartoons- apart from the censorship issues I ranted about in the last blog, it's a top-notch collection.