Well, that was interesting. Leaving work and heading straight into a headwind. Well, it was a cooling southerly, so all was good. Then it got even better, it started raining. It got heavier through Surfers Paradise. Thunder and lightning, this is getting to be really good folks. Then the hail came at Broadbeach. Now I was really enjoying it.

After this I had, not so much a near miss, but an undamaging (for me anyway) collision with a car that not only failed to give way (that I could have dealt with), but then decided to stop in the middle of the freaking road at 90 degrees to the flow of traffic. Still, me and my bike were totally unharmed, so that's all that counts. I hope he suffered some hail damage though.

Then, just as the hail started, just as I started to enjoy it, it stopped. Even the rain stopped. Oh well, I was just about home by then anyway. BTW, I ate a hailstone tonight, what's the nutritional value of that?

Then I went to the shops. I hadn't expected anyone around here to steal a light battery, but that's just what happened. Funny, just when you think people around here can't get any stupider, they suddenly do.