A typical English summer:-( - how has the weather affected your summer plans?

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The skies have darkened from light grey to a menacing darker shade, the clouds have begun to pile up to form a uniform heavy dark mass, the air has become oppressive, and my cat has raced inside and is now curled up under the sofa. Distant rumblings appear closer now, louder and more sustained, and as the last of the sunlight vanishes behind a blanket of rapidly moving black clouds, the first fat drops of rain begin to fall. A sudden, blinding flash temporarily blinds, followed a scant few second later by a deafening explosion of sound as the thunder shakes the window pane. Torrents of water stream down the windows, as yet another blinding, heavy downpour coalesces to form an instant river in the road outside. Puddles become pools become lakes become rivers become torrents as the relentless rain falls from the bulging black clouds above. What used to be a garden now resembles a paddy field, the water laps around the car, the level rising to the hub caps before sloshing over the drive to add it's contribution to the raging torrent in the road. But within a scant ten minutes the clouds have moved on, the raindrops slow in descent to finally cease. A faint trace of blue sky lightens as the remnants of the storm pass on, leaving the river in the road to slowly die back to a stream, and then a gentle trickle. Gradually the standing water in the garden drains away, and the first hint of sunshine lightens the scene as the last of the rain disappears to leave behind gleaming pavement and rain-washed trees. I stand at the window, looking out and the black clouds on the horizon, knowing that within a short while the cycle will begin again. All plans for a day out now cancelled, I wonder as I sit at my keyboard.....has this awful weather ruined your summer holiday plans?