Yes, astonishingly it's raining again. More bloody rain. And dark early. And thunder. And humidity. With, surprise, more rain forecast for the weekend. Humph. When are we going to have a few nice days? Grrr. One of my colleagues has cancelled a planned camping trip this weekend to Three Cliffs with his family because of the weather forecast. We've been having flash Met office warnings all day in work today. Did I mention it is raining?

We also have a new Chief Officer. They will be starting at the end of October. The rumours say it is a woman from Gloucester/shire - that's the bush telegraph for you. As soon as I know anything definate I will post and of course get busy Googling. I've never had a female boss - that would be interesting.

Should be an interesting weekend. Harry Potter is published, so I'll be reading that along with watching some interesting bits of the tour. There's a time trial on Saturday. It's turning into a real suffer-fest - I keep watching Vinokourov with a kind of awe that a person can voluntarily go through so much. Wow. Team Barloworld are also having a fantastic race - they have more than justified their wild card.

Friday tomorrow. A meeting with our Portfolio holder first thing. Then putting the paperwork together for a new graffiti officer and preparing a presentation for Scrutiny next week, who are doing a task and finish session on flytipping.