you know what samuel beckett said? "why do you write?" he said, "not good for anything else".eelancer, you know? and that's a good thing because i don't have a boss. you are your own boss. continue to be. very enviable. margaret atwood, thank you so much for sharing your cultural life with us. thank you. voice-over: and for podcast episodes of this cultural life, _ go to bbc sounds or wherever you get your podcasts. good weather for ducks! it's not all doom and gloom, the weather story for this sunday and we've already had lovely sunshine in devon earlier on. there is some rain and some of it quite heavy and persistent. this was lancashire earlier this morning and most of the heavy rain across northern england, north wales and northern ireland and it is stubbornly sitting there as you can see from the latest radar picture this morning so to the north and south it is sunny spells and scattered showers but underneath the cloud and rain it is cool and disappointing and just on the edge is manchester and liverpool, the cricket and the golf which might be impacted today. some of th

you know what samuel beckett said? "why do you write?" he said, "not good for anything else"., i'm a freelancer, you know? and that's a good thing because i don't have a boss. you are your own boss. continue to be. very enviable. margaret atwood, thank you so much for sharing your cultural life with us. thank you. and for podcast episodes of this cultural life, go to bbc sounds or wherever you get your podcasts. hello there. the full uk forecast in a moment — but first of all, the extreme heat continues to affect parts of the mediterranean. and later on monday, we might actually see one of europe's highest ever temperatures — 48 celsius possible to the southwest of catania. now, the significance of that is the all—time european record currently stands at 48.8, so we'll be very, very close to that. on sunday, though, here in the uk, it was a very wet day across central portions of the uk. we have 91 millimetres of rainfall in preston, three—and—a—half inches — that's about a month's worth. these figures only go up to saturday, but even at that stage, there were a number of plac

you know what samuel beckett said? "why do you write?" he said, "not good for anything else".ancer, you know? and that's a good thing because i don't have a boss. you are your own boss. continue to be. very enviable. margaret atwood, thank you so much for sharing your cultural life with us. thank you. voice-over: and for podcast episodes of this cultural life, | go to bbc sounds or wherever you get your podcasts. there were some parts of the casing some saturday sunshine. but, this was the typical picture for many of us. lancashire seeing cloud, outbreaks of rain. you can see a lot of cloud on the earlier satellite picture and this weather system continues to journey eastwards overnight. so, some further very wet weather for some overnight. so, some further very wet weatherfor some time overnight. so, some further very wet weather for some time across parts of northern ireland, southern scotland, merry areas of england and wales. to the north of scotland, we will hold onto some clear sky, one or two showers. a little bit chilly once again overnight. further south, a mild night

you know what samuel beckett said? "why do you write?" he said, "not good for anything else".i'm a freelancer, you know? and that's a good thing because i don't have a boss. you are your own boss. continue to be. very enviable. margaret atwood, thank you so much for sharing your cultural life with us. thank you. voice-over: and for podcast episodes of this cultural life, | go to bbc sounds or wherever you get your podcasts. hello. some parts of the uk, particularly parts of northern england and northern ireland, have already seen the wettestjuly on record. and you probably won't be too surprised to hear that we have got more rain in the forecast at times through the remainder of this week. now, tuesday brings a mix of sunny spells and scattered showers. we won't all be seeing the rain during the day on tuesday, but let's look at the rest of the week. this is the jet stream. these winds you can see here continuing to drive areas of low pressure in towards our shores with showers or longer spells of rain moving their way through from the atlantic and pushing gradually eastwards.

you know what samuel beckett said? "why do you write?" he said, "not good for anything else".ll, i'm a freelancer, you know? and that's a good thing because i don't have a boss. you are your own boss. continue to be. very enviable. margaret atwood, thank you so much for sharing your cultural life with us. thank you. hello. it's going to be a wet one for many of us this weekend. in fact, it'll feel more like september, perhaps even early october, with the strength of the wind. really not a pleasant picture at all. the weather systems are lining up in the atlantic. here's the satellite picture. multiple weather fronts heading in our direction, and that cloud has already spread across the uk. it has been raining and the rain will get heavier in some areas as we go through the morning and into saturday afternoon. now, over the next two or three days, we will have rather a lot of rain in some parts of the country. where you see the deeper blue colours here, the darker blues, that's the rainfall accumulating to around 50mm of rain or more, so about a month's worth of rainfall in a c