Took me two hours to do the 30-odd miles from Ludlow, up the A49, on Friday night. Dopey sods driving too fast through deep puddles and drowning their engines, so the road was littered with vehicles.

A workmate was in Tewkesbury at the weekend, probably one of the last vehicles to get out on Saturday. Sounded awful. Another left Shrewsbury at 3.45 on Friday afternoon, got home to just over the Worcestershire border at 8.15.

Shrewsbury not too bad at the moment - no canoeing down the aisle of The Abbey like a few years ago, though the Severn it is due to surge later today.