Geoff writes: windy, definitely not flyable, but sunnier further to the south east – so a good day to visit my family near Cirencester. It was not a bad afternoon really, not least because we went to visit Bibury, a classic chocolate box English village in the Cotswolds – so classic, it was full of tourists even in mid-May, with Americans, Spanish, Japanese (on an Irish coach) and Germans – and those were just the accents we heard.  But it really is a very pretty place, and you can understand why it is on the tourist trail.

The Cotswolds, of course, is a very, very rich area, and very patriotic. We passed one house in yet another classic chocolate box village which had a full size poster of William and Kate (the ones who just got married) stuck to their front door. Very bizarre. Unfortunately, we had no camera with us – a great photo opportunity missed.