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Mists and mellow fruitfulness

The summer of 2013. We thought it would never end. Yet how swiftly we’ve slid from summer to autumn. And as I stand in the kitchen at half past six in the evening peeling sprouts, looking out at the fading light of the day, it seems only yesterday I was washing salad ready for dinner on the patio, the kitchen window flung open, the sun still high in the sky. Those long evenings sitting outside, dinner plates still on the table, the warm air, the sound of evening birdsong and the swallows and swifts swooping overhead. It felt like we were on holiday somewhere....

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I'm dreaming of a White Easter...

What’s happening to our weather? Here we are, the end of March, Easter in two days’ time and the temperature’s struggling to rise above zero. At least here in Somerset we’re lucky enough not to have snow, but it’s no surprise to hear that the cold air is coming from Siberia. It certainly feels like it. The jet stream, I understand, is way down in Spain, giving the Spaniards the warm, moist weather we normally have. Hard to imagine that this time last year we had one of the best springs on record, temperatures in the twenties, people getting...

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