If there is one thing that tourists ask me when I’m out with them it is Brexit or Donald Trump. If there is a second thing they ask me it is about the weather. For some reason, people have the idea that it always rains in London and really it couldn’t be further from… Continue reading Busting the myth of London being a Rainy city
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Walking through a graveyard of giants
I try to go for a walk every day, it adds a bit of routine which is necessary when writing at home in the winter nearly every day. Sometimes I go along the canal, other times through parks and across the countryside along ancient pathways. Many of these areas are currently partially flooded as much… Continue reading Walking through a graveyard of giants
The London Frost Fairs of Times Past
Lots of us remember when generally it was a lot colder when we were little. The summers were also less wet too, at least in the U.K. but no-one in their right mind would think of London as being an Artic like city and yet for about 1,000 years in the winter it was exactly… Continue reading The London Frost Fairs of Times Past
Autumn is here or why is weather in Britain so complicated
It is mid-October now but until a day or so ago, we in England were still enjoying to some degree a summer. This despite the fact that the sun crossed the equator around 3 weeks ago. Until Tuesday, the weather in much of Southern England at least was 22 degrees C or 72 degrees F. … Continue reading Autumn is here or why is weather in Britain so complicated
Stephen Liddell 