They said that it was going to be dry, sunny and hot today. The hottest day of the year so far, we were told. Just a shame we don't all live in the south of England (it would seem that, for some in the BBC, the world still stops at the Watford Gap and little of import is happening in the world beyond Wayne Rooney's broken metatarsles). Where I live it rained. And it wasn't all that hot either... it wasn't even all that warm.