No sign of the 37 °C maximum yet, but its still early in the day…

Good news on my latest toy — an email from aagelectronica to say they’ve shipped my weather station. Now to wait for it to be delivered…

This must take the cake in the “nearly hitting a celebrity” stakes. I thought I had a close call a couple of years ago with Mark Seymour of Hunters and Collectors when he wobbled down the middle of the bike track, but this… (from <uk.rec.cycling>):

Many years ago while I was an undergraduate I was “allowed” to have a car (normally they were rightly frowned upon). I was carefully backing it out of a parking place in Harvey court in Cambridge one rainy November night, when I felt some slightly unusual resistance. I checked both mirrors, wound down the window and checked again, but seeing and hearing nothing, I assumed the brakes must have jammed , so revved up a bit, and let the clutch bite a bit deeper. Still some resistance, so I thought I’d better check again. I clambered out to find Prof Steven Hawking in his electric wheelchair, firmly attached to my rear bumper, canted over at a perilous angle, and mouthing something inaudible but nevertheless perfectly intelligible.