Global warming and/or climate change are not the staple of this blog. That is not about to change but I have to say that what others call the extremes of climate (and we in the UK just call “the weather”) has been much in my mind recently.
I suppose it all started with what by any standards has been the almost continuously poor weather throughout what passes for summer in these islands, made all the worse by the spectacular spring when the sun shone almost unceasingly and the temperature over Easter was in the 80s, with the promise of more to come. It was around then that people started saying they feared for the harvest because of the lack of rain. As I was not trying to grow anything organic, I felt that the doomsayers ought to be careful what they wished for and sure enough once the rain and cool weather arrived no one seemed to know how to turn it off! And, surprise, surprise, the harvest has not been all that bad overall. We have just had yet another disappointing summer.