Deluge

I spent the day in South Essex, along with all the rain imaginable. We went to Ikea to get a new office chair in an attempt to get to grips with my persistent bad back, and the drive from Thurrock to Leigh was one of the scariest I've ever done; I've never seen rain water like it! It felt like tanks of water were being thrown on to the windscreen, and visibility was non-existent. We eventually made it to Greg's parents where we hid inside for the afternoon with pizza and a bad action movie. We all had to venture back out in the rain for G's cousins wedding reception, which was very nice, but I had to leave early to try and make my way home through the closed and flooded roads. Thankfully I was escorted out via a maze of back roads and managed to escape a sinking Southend.