So there I was, with Cllr Angela Barker in Houghton Conquest, looking a burst water main in the face, when my phone went.

It had just started to rain, heavily and I had left my coat in the car. BBC Look East were chasing me around the constituency to grab an interview about the Eco town poroposal public meeting that I am speaking at and I was late for a meeting/walk on Coopers Hill (more later) with Ed, who was going to teach me and others about the birds and the beetles.

As I was already late I said to Angela, “Shall we go and get some wellies and rubber gloves? I reckon we could fix this valve in a few minutes.”

I have always known that two women could do the work of ten men in a fraction of the time.

The phone went again and the heavens opened just as I was told “David Davis is about to resign, no details as yet, more to follow.”

As I said, it never rains.