On the eve of my annual sojourn to Glastonbury, I’m keeping everything crossed that the current forecast of sun, sun, sun, holds true for the next five days.

My faith in meteorologists is such, however, that I’ll be taking my tartan wellies regardless of all the wee suns pictured on the BBC website.

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But why is it that as soon as there’s a sniff of proper summer weather, the doom-mongers over at the insurance companies are busy peddling pessimism?

Seemingly not content with spending the last couple of summers convincing us that we were all in imminent danger of flooding, they’ve now come up with a contingency plan for the sunny weather. Subsidence.

According to the experts at Halifax Home Insurance, the forthcoming heatwave on the back of two wet summers is a sure-fire sign that many of the UK’s homes are about to sink.

While I’m fully aware that subsidence is a very serious issue and that weather is a contributory factor, I’m a bit fed up of insurance companies having a catastrophe for every season.

Maybe some of these insurance bods should hotfoot it down to Glastonbury Green Fields this weekend and just chill out. Man.

Note: Since I last looked – mere hours ago - the forecast for Glasto has changed from wall-to-wall sunshine to a Somerset monsoon.  I am sooo in a camper van next year.

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