August in Arnside

Arnside Clouds, originally uploaded by Bay Photographic.

To paraphrase Victor Meldrew, I simply don't believe the way that this August, just like last year, has been more like the monsoon season in Borneo than summer in the UK. My garden has gone bonkers, the roads have been rarely dry enough to ride my motorbike and I am seriously fed up with photographing everything under a moody dark sky with towering clouds.
Take the shot above for example. To be fair, I wouldn't have even bothered posting it on my Flickr stream without the sky, but I would really like just for once to have a reason to put a circular polariser on my camera.