BBC live text for Transfer Deadline Day: “• Liverpool agree British record £125m fee with Newcastle to sign Alexander Isak • Real Betis seal £21.65m deal to sign Man Utd winger Antony • Potential big deals - Guehi, Hincapie, Martinez, Wissa”.

Met Office alert for Southern Scotland: “Cancelled warning Yellow warning of rain has been cancelled. Reason for cancellation Warning cancelled with threat of impactful rain having now passed. Cancelled for Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders, East Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire”.

August only ended *hours* ago, and already we’ve got the most entertaining Trasfer Deadline Fay in donkey’s years and a weather warning has been cancelled. Coincidence? I think not! 🤷 #MakeAugustHistory

Kamala Harris phones Joe Biden and says, “We did it, Joe.”

We did it Joe. We defeated August!

The politicians listened at last, and the worst month of the year has been crushed thanks to our spirited campaign. 🥳 #MakeAugustHistory

(And another timely reminder that we need to pull together as a Northern Hemisphere and #MakeAugustHistory.)

Can’t speak lowly enough of August: light subtly fading away, schools going back (up here anyway), always some floods somewhere. Honestly prefer autumn, at least it’s more honest. #MakeAugustHistory

BBC Weather: the temperature in London at midnight is 22C(!), with the heatwave scheduled to peak at 30C on Friday.

The thing is about August (or “The Month Of Hell”, as I’d call it): even when the floods end and the sun comes out, it’s *too* sunny. 😩 #MakeAugustHistory

Problem over here is that August is the worst month (always floods / thunderstorms etc.) but nobody ever seems to notice.

So we all just get subtly angrier at each other, never knowing why, then reach for the Halloween decorations in desperation. The root source is always August. #MakeAugustHistory

August isn’t summer though: August is a fate worse than death itself. #MakeAugustHistory

Met Office: the yellow wind warning has been upgraded to amber for most of Scotland (including the Central Belt), because it’s August now.

Upgrade to Amber Warning? Sure, why not? It’s August: it’s what we do here. #MakeAugustHistory #StormFloris

Met Office: the whole of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the North of England are covered in an enormous yellow wind warning for two days at the start of August, because it’s August.

Aaaaaand we’re off and running on Day One! 🫠 Told ya. #StormFloris #MakeAugustHistory

One of my 2025 Predictions from March: ‘20 years on from the Live 8 concerts, Sir Bob Geldof calls an emergency press conference with Midge Ure in London to unveil a new campaign to #MakeAugustHistory. The angry Dubliner appears close to tears as he makes an impassioned plea for the hated month to be consigned to the dustbin of history, pointing out that every August for the past 20+ years has promised more sunny weather but then delivered nothing but floods, subtly fading light and bad energy. Ure launches a PowerPoint presentation featuring footage of cars floating away in Italian floods and sodden concertgoers in Reading / Leeds, to highlight the scale of the problem. Pledging to do "everything in our power to eradicate the scourge of August", Geldof plays CCTV footage of a hillwalker cursing his luck and postponing a Munro climb due to yet another yellow weather warning, muttering, "... it's disgusting. And we won't stand for it any more."’

The blog continues into May: ‘Every major global popstar gathers at a top-secret recording studio in London to record Sir Bob Geldof's new charity single, "I Don't Like August". The incensed wizard focusses the minds of stars such as Harry Styles, Beyoncé, Sabrina Carpenter and Chas & Dave by playing a video of Runrig's rain-drenched Loch Ness concert in August 2007, arguing that, "it is incumbent on everyone in this room to ensure we never see these horrific scenes again". Bono flies in later in the evening and manages to nick the song's most iconic line, "And they can see no seasons, cause there are no seasons!" | Don't Like August shoots straight to No. 1 in 58 countries and raises money for a benefit concert in the summer with the aim of seeing off August once and for all, helped along by the rousing final chorus, "I wanna shoo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oot... the whole month down!"’

July’s section ends with a Live Aid / Live-8 style concert, before the blog skips straight to September, the worst month now finally vanquished: ‘On the last day of July, the #MakeAugustHistory concert piles pressure on politicians to cancel the most underwhelming month of the year. In a sold-out Hyde Park, Bono releases 31 white doves (one for each day of the cursed month) during U2's emotional rendition of "August Bloody August", while Taylor Swift wows the crowd with a special 20-minute version of "All Too Well", which focusses on an escalating dispute over a botched Hermes delivery last August. As ever, the night ends with Sir Paul McCartney coming on to sing the chorus of "Hey Jude", before Geldof finds PM Sir Keir Starmer backstage (enjoying some free hospitality) and drags him onstage, causing Starmer to buckle to pressure and agree to outlaw August just in time! The rapturous celebrations (underneath a wondrous display of the Northern Lights) are interrupted by Oasis, who barge their way onstage and come swinging for Starmer, pointing out that all their Ibrox concerts were planned for August and they now stand to lose 70% of their divorce fund / gig revenue, before chasing Starmer off into the night with their patented swagger.’

July is nearly over. Still just over 24hrs for the most important of my #Blogmanay🥳 #2025Predictions to be realised. As a planet, we need to take action. #MakeAugustHistory

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And now Geldof takes to the stage for his rendition of the classic, #IDontLikeAugust. My blog was right on the money and we’re barely into Jan 1st. #MakeAugustHistory #Blogmanay🥳

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Sky just said the Monday Night Football panel will be doing their 2025 predictions after the break, and sorry but you only need one set of 2025 Predictions tonight. #Blogmanay 🥳 #APD #MakeAugustHistory #JoolsNightlyHootenany #AugustBloodyAugust

Which new campaign will aim to cancel the worst month of the year? Why is Bruno Mars singing about UKGov policy? And could the Baby Reindeer / Willy Wonka debacles be rescued? #Blogmanay🥳 #WallaceAndStacey #GavinAndGromit #MakeAugustHistory #BabyReindeerAndTheChocolateFactory #JoolsNightlyHootenanny

Lots to agree with here Clive, but for me August is a circle of hell all to itself.

An absolute con: “Oh, oh, it’s still summer honest! Go a holiday, book a stadium gig! 😎” Then you get there and oh it’s floods for the whole month. September (and even October?) are more honest. #MakeAugustHistory

Have been looking into banning August too. The worst month; people think it’ll still be summer but it’s actually just floods. At least September and October are more honest. #MakeAugustHistory