Person parked beside me after the meeting today remarked on the rain and said – as he climbed into a rather svelte motor, ‘If I had known it was going to rain today, I wouldn’t have brought this car.’ Amazing, I thought, as I got into the Passat – now 144000 miles faithful. I delivered Poppy for a two week stay in the cappuchino belt of Bruntsfield this evening and stopped off at the Asda car wash in Dunfermline on my way home. One has to keep one’s end up in smart company.