Summer has come to a close yesterday, the Met office said the last day of August ends summer. Their figures confirmed what most of us already knew,that this year's summer has been one of the wettest on record. What summer?

When we think back to childhood, we all remember long hot summers, so is it any wonder we feel cheated out of our ration of sunshine.
The summer of 2008 was the seventh wettest in over fifty years, Christ I can't recall a wetter one.

Interesting figures, just 96 hours of sunshine brightened up Britain this August,compared to the average 200 hours we usually get.

The wet and windy summer has caused a dramatic failure in crops too, causing the price of fruit to soar by almost 300 per cent.

Farmers were hoping for an Indian summer to help the crops dry before being harvested but according to forecasters the unsettled, wet conditions which made August one of the dullest on record, are here to stay.

Ever notice, when farmers put prices up because of a wet summer, they never bring the prices down.