So, I’m not sure if summer’s officially over, but my hopes aren’t really set any significant sunshine until next April. In fact, this August was the dimmest, wettest August in Northern Ireland in a long time. About three weeks ago, we had a bit of flooding throughout the country, and someone told me we almost received our average August rainfall over a weekend.

As far as actual facts and figures go, by the end of the month, we’d received nearly twice the normal rain for August and about half the sunshine – a total of 69 hours for the whole month. Being the darkest since records started being kept in 1880, it’s also an average of just over two hours per day, and for being supposedly in the middle of summer, that’s somewhat disappointing.

It’s time to fix the leaky roofs.

(All the facts came from this BBC Northern Ireland news story).