Spent most of today in the Marine Bill committee, which has virtually taken over my life.
About 5.00 pm, the sky darkened; peering out of the windows across the Thames, it looked like a November evening.
Then the lightning and the thunder began. The rain was torrential, the noise astonishing. The old palace stared to leak; buckets placed in the committee corridor became a timpani that reverberated through the committee room as the debate on the Bill solemnly continued, clause by clause.
Outside, garden partygoers were drenched in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. Victoria station was flooded. Tourists, bravely clad in t-shirts and shorts, huddled together in doorways as the rain poured down.
It was high summer in London.
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It must have been rather distracting with all the leaks! Did you take that photograph?