davidgillon | I think the weather is trolling us...

Another day with crystal clear skies and several hours spent in the garden in shirt sleeves, in fact I only came in at 6:30PM and it was dark at 7PM. It was getting a little cold at the end there - so I pulled on the hoodie I'd had drying on the line for the last 20 minutes of it- but it was hot enough earlier I had to take off the light jacket I'd thrown on while running an errand.

I couldn't help tying this in with the new IPCC climate change report: "So, puny humans, you have discovered my evil plan, but see how effortlessly I turn an autumn day into a sunny summer one, resistance is futile!"

I would actually have spent more time outside, but when I went upstairs to get my kindle I noticed that the house across the main road from my back garden and two up was being visited by four police officers, two squad cars, and one emergency ambulance. I'd first noticed the first pair of cops about two thirty, the other pair turned up while I was out on an errand, so probably an hour later, and the ambulance appeared between me driving past them on my way home and making it upstairs about five minutes later, so I'd have heard, and probably seen if it had turned up with lights and sirens. So I stayed watching for a while, and filling all the 'nothing's happening' with browsing the web. Of course they all sloped off about four thirty while I wasn't looking - I saw the original pair of cops leave, but not the ambulance or the second squad car. The householder came out immediately afterwards to close their gate and their neighbours practically teleported to the fence to interrogate them on what was happening.

You're lucky to get one uniformed cop for a burglary, so four for several hours suggests something pretty serious, but no plainclothes officers, yet an ambulance is a weird combination.