weather - tisn't nobler, for sure

Pitch dark and pissing it down here now.   Sky TV, seen while at the gym, showed flooded campsites in gale-stricken Norfolk, which is where elder son, wife and daughters age 2 and 4 are headed today, for a week - I wonder whether or not they went?

I DID get as far as clearing the spare bed to pile things on, and selected four books, as well as notebooks ... that's  a start, at least.

And in the meantime I am distracted by the delicious odour of curry, as my DBS cooks tea downstairs