The paddock, baked by hot sunshine, looked just a little forlorn last night.

Days one and two will be generally fine, with hot sunshine and occasional cloud.

I hike up to the waterfall the next day in hot sunshine.

And then a burst of hot sunshine within minutes of everybody's scampering exit, just to ramp up the sense of thumb-biting pointlessness.

The crowd had to wait outside the ground, but when hot sunshine broke through in the afternoon pandemonium erupted and the crowd broke in.