Brandishing brollies is all very well: Simulating the weightlifting at the Olympics, having polish Pretties pilfer purple precipitation preventers, impromptu karaoke mike...
I'll take yer to me candy stick
Perhaps I'll let you suck my dick
(50p is somewhat less subtle than that there 50¢)
Anyhoo, whilst emphasising a very important point, to whit; the use of staydry apparatus alterative useage as a walking stick, one was most distraught to have one's end fly off!
Leaving you with a metallic pokey stick and, thanks to the wind, a portable purple satellite!
Which proved somewhat awkward to meander about with, so I ended up shoving my purple end into a tight little slot down King's Street.
As you do.
And I still have no idea WHAT happened to my pokey stick...