'It was quite a quiet night to the bars, downstairs. What were they called, mausies and, oh, rock.' 'Every now and then I could see bits of fork lightning fly through the sky,' he says. The only thing that disturbed me during the night - there was a huge thunderstorm which came over the building in the middle of the night' He adds: 'Even when you've got your eyes closed, you can still see the lightning'.