Rain, Rain
It's odd, for all that I've been caught in a number of the deluges which have hit the UK in the last few weeks, and obviously I've watched the news footage of flooding around the place, it only somehow became real to me last night. We'd gone up to Oxfordshire for a 40th birthday party and when we got there, Birthday Boy was so bowled over that we'd made it that we were quite shocked until we heard about all the people who weren't able to, because their roads were impassable or their trains had been cancelled. It was really eye-opening.
Also: slightly strange. Someone coming from Carlisle made it, but people coming from Leeds and London didn't, though some Londoners (like us for example) had a pretty straightforward journey. It's all most inexplicable.