Grey skies are gonna clear up ...

The brief was to photograph a new development in Brackley, Northants, and make it look like a St Tropez café courtyard. Blue skies please, and a selection of trendies in shades with frappucinos.

The reality was that it peed it down all day and all the chairs blew over. So I had to resort to quirky angles and at least suggest some slight Bauhaus influence to stop it looking like an eastern bloc tower complex.