Riots and rain - it's a funny old world

London went mad for a few days.  It felt like I was in this surreal futuristic drama, where the end of the world is nigh, and while the youth go looting, the rest of sit here trying to work out what is going on.

You talk about it in the hairdresser, at bus stops, even at the doctors' waiting room.

And then everyone offered to clean up.  Ok the papers were cheesy, but I know of at least one person who donated to the looted shopkeepers appeal.  And my corner shop owner knows a guy in tottenham who got looted, and apparently insurance won't pay up.

Meanwhile at work they're dealing with the fallout of the courts.

It's a funny old world.