Thursday 04/05/06

Our American friends depart on the 10 a.m. bus for Tarbert. It's a brilliantly sunny and fairly mild morning. Temperatures rise to about 15C by early afternoon. Medium level cloud increases rapidly after lunch. I head into town for a haircut. The first shop says the gents' hairdresser has just gone home for the afternoon, so I proceed to the next shop. The meaning of the word 'smile' should be looked up there. Nonetheless, the haircut is good, so no real complaints there. When I go back out into the street, the sky has grown quite dark and it comes on to rain. Mrs B's nephew pays us another visit, as he waits for a repair on his car. It gets muggy and misty, and also quite dark. We need the lights on by 5 pm. At 9.30 a thunderstorm passes, and at 10.05 the electricity trips out for a minute. Glasgow is having a hellish night with a ferocious thunderstorm. One man was apparently left waistdeep in floodwater at a busstop. The rain continues into the night. Although the drains were supposed to have been fixed, there is a sizeable puddle at the corner of the street.