IT’S THE FIRST of October, and we are well in truly in Autumn now.

To get us into the humour, Mother Nature decided to do us a solid and throw us a soft day.

Thanks Mother Nature.  Thanks a bleedin’ lot.

Just in case you are unsure of what exactly a soft day entails, here are its defining characteristics.

The mist

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It’s not really rain, more a pervasive mist that seems to get under your clothes and wet them from the inside out.

Useless umbrellas

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Due to the mist coming from all directions, your umbrella is useless.  Don’t even bother with it, because the misty rain will get you no matter what you do.

Traffic

Apparently we forget how to drive when it's raining.

Impaired vision

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Wearing glasses?  Well you're just not going to be able to see when you're outside today.

The warmth combined with the mist means that a beautiful speckled fog will cover your glasses.  Lucky you.

Wet clothes

The unending grey

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The sky is grey. The path is grey. The buildings are grey.  It's all grey.

Miserable cyclists

Look around you.  How do your cyclist colleagues look?

Miserable?  That's what I thought.  Cycling through mist and diabolical traffic does not a happy person make.

Shoe regret

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It didn't look that wet when you looked out the window this morning, so you thought you'd be fine in your favourite runners.

You are not fine.  You are walking around your office in your socks.

No end in sight

A soft day is not the kind of day which includes a couple of hours of proper rain.

Oh no.  The mist doesn't end, it just goes on.  Possibly forever.

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