h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We have had beautiful sunshine interspersed with *very* heavy showers today - I was taking a group of USA Girl Scouts on a tour of the college (don't ask!) when there was a hailstorm, accompanied by thunder. One minute the lawns were covered in hailstones the size of golfballs (well I exaggerate slightly ...), the next bright sunshine again.

Went out of college for lunch. We get free lunches in the student cafeteria, but sometimes I just want to be off the premises, and today was one of those days. Dodged the hailstones on the way to the University Centre (otherwise known as the Grad Pad, because it used to be only open to graduates). Saw a little group of what I took to be North African lads laughing at one of their number who had got hailstones down the back of his neck - poor thing!

Had a sandwich on the top floor of the Grad Pad - it has a great view which always makes me appreciate working in that part of the city: Silver Street bridge, the Mathematical Bridge, the river, Darwin College (the old Darwin family house), Laundress Green.

On the way back, I saw a beautiful old cream-coloured Rolls Royce, stopping outside a pretty little cottage in a wiggly street of old houses in Newnham village. I asked the chauffeur how old it was - 1933. As I continued down the street I saw a couple of bridesmaids and a page emerging from the doorway and getting into the car. Wedding season has obviously started.

It's been a boring week. Not enough to do. And then today, suddenly too much to do. And Acting Boss made me *very* cross. But on the whole, everything else made up for it.