IT HAS BEEN RAINING FOR SEVERAL WHOLE MINUTES. [panic over it stopped again] [ooh no restarted]

Also:

• we have a mortgage offer. The bank has finally deigned to consider my income income. Hopefully everything will go much more rapidly and smoothly from here.
  
• the DWP has received the letter that runs "you owe me 7k, and don't even think of trying to wriggle out of it -- you agreed in 2014 that I had difficulty with this thing I can apparently now do with no trouble despite me telling you I still couldn't do it". It'll be a while before the system regurgitates anything useful, but hey, progress.
  
• post-therapy ice-cream was apricot + sour cream, and a mint-and-cucumber sorbet that is my new best friend. The combination was great.
  
• I am getting an extra damn' month of medical leave and my samples are in Milton Keynes, where they need to be and were theoretically going to have been since late May.
  
• I bought some baby salad leaves from the reduced chiller in the supermarket and planted them out; they are much happier with more space and are living next to the tomatoes, such that when we have dinner on the patio we can pick-your-own salad.