August is not a favourite month of mine, by and large the countryside looks brown, but not this year! In fact on my journey from Ely to March on Saturday 11th I was not surprised that the Ouse Washes remain under water. But so far August has been less wet and warmer than either June or July.

The weekend of 18th & 19th was positively hot, so much so that I took myself ff to Old Linslade for the first time this year for the pre-breakfast parade of trains, enlivened this Saturday by the Northern Belle and GBRf's two morning services to and from Hams Hall which ran WCML rather than cross country.

The penultimate week and the bank holiday weekend found me in London and East Anglia