Well there was a storm and some trees fell down, four people died and a lot of power went off but it wasn’t a great storm like they were promising on Sunday, like the one of 1987, and for the whole of today they didn’t have enough to report on the radio having deployed all their journalists onto that story. MoL thinks the storm was a conspiracy by the service providers to distract from the obscene profits they are making. The only interruption was Lou Reed dying, rather inconveniently because the BBC couldn’t find anyone interesting to talk about him. MoL liked Berlin best and Sad Song, and MoL, not shocked by much, was by the line “Somebody else would have broken both her arms.” (“She seemed pretty reasonable to me, just goes to show how wrong you can be.”) MoL saw him standing in a foyer some years ago (waiting for Laurie Anderson). What is it about rock stars? The flame still burned, just, but fame sucks something out, so he look reduced and desiccated, not like anyone else at all. With Keith Richards only the original ears remain now. The rest was body-snatched or swapped at some point; MoL is investigating exactly when this substitution took place. Anyway, the weather was the climate equivalent of a nil-nil draw. The rail network used it as an excuse to run an even more chaotic service than usual or no service at all. MoL made what was supposed to be a fairly straightforward train journey and it was like the planes and the ashes all over again. (In fact what Lou Reed sings is “She looked pretty regal to me,” (because she looked just like Mary Queen of Scots) but MoL prefers “reasonable”. Either way, MoL says “Just goes to show how wrong you can be” is one of the great lines of the last forty years.)