Well, despite the reasonable looking forecast, my trusty blackfellow is temporarily languishing behind the Teutonic Tourer in the garage, whilst I nurse the world's vilest bout of man-flu....
Rather than decipher the runic symbols of langleybaston's beetle and fircone charts these days, I find the Irish met info from RTé pretty accurate - they're centred on Ireland, so you see a little more of what's likely to come in off the Atlantic:
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RTÉ Weather , to be sure.....
Châteauneuf-du-Pape, eh Courtney? And there was I thinking that the average fast-jet mate's idea of a good red wine was something which, unlike kokkinelli, doesn't need to be cut with Sprite....