It's all gone Larry Grayson

What a grey day! Super muggy on the beach, not much of a fresh sea breeze going down. I blame the Dutch - oh, they were nasty! Thought the ref had a tough one there.

My recession report for Polzeath and Cornwall continues as follows. Bumped into a local bank manager on the weekend, he reckons there's a lot of businesses out there really hurting! First signs of big cracks. Now we've been lucky so far, it's been a good one and the last couple of weeks have been exceptional - but that's down to what's pre-booked, school groups etc. That goes against the trend. Actual numbers of people on the beach has been quieter than normal. We saw the first signs of proper holiday traffic this weekend, but my observation is that it's still pretty quiet around. The beach car park is nearly full, but when you come off the beach there's no traffic.... at all! It's as if everyone is either staying locally and has walked in, or made it to the beach early by car. There's a air of calm - none of the manicness that we get. Manicness, is that a word? I'm going to claim it and stick it on Wiki!

Billy's got the County Champs this week. The race isn't until Wednesday but already you can sense that he's gearing up for it. He just wants to win. He's gets much less tolerant of his younger brother and bit more thoughtful leading up to race day. An old head on young shoulders. I wonder how many more years we've got of this!

Note to self - idiot! Staff meeting on Wednesday, made copious notes, lost notes. Looked everywhere! Can rewrite but don't want to miss any golden nuggets! now think Pete, where have you put them.......

Still haven't had much rain. A shower on Friday night and a few spits and spots, but nothing to write home about. And I've noticed that the hayfever season is dragging on... I wonder what the science is behind that. It's been a funny old year!

Started the day with a list of jobs too long for my brain to comprehend - and that can mean total shut down. But surprisingly, have managed to clear a few and my brain feels like it has more room to move!