Sometimes it is worth getting soaked on the bike ride home from work.

After our first major rainfall for weeks I could have been very grumpy about my very damp arrival home last night.

But later the skies over our valley treated us to a sequence of eerie mists, spectacular cloud formations and a sunset that could have featured in in a science fiction movie, or maybe in one of those Roger Dean posters that some of us of a certain age had on our walls in the 1970s.

Natural compensation.