Ophelia

There was much talk of storms, but for us there was just a freaky spice orange sky caused by the tail of the hurricane whipping up Saharan sands and Portuguese fire ash and dragging them across the skies of Leatherhead. It was strangely beautiful and caused everyone to creep around in wonderment.

Before that we met the new top team, which was also quite an occasion. The six man team is - well, all women. Girl power and stuff. Certainly no glass ceilings.

Sad to hear Sean Hughes died. Saw him live on stage at the Hay Festival back in the nineties, he was brilliant.

I had a bad day. Ghastly fatigue. It is getting me down.