So, we have just about reached the end of our short break in Paris. To be honest I could stay here a lot longer. There may be a few strange things about the place but overall I love it. It’s relative compactness and spacious feeling pavements and public transport are a delight and its overwhelmingly… Continue reading Visiting Montmatre, home of artists and Sacre Couer
Tag: Weather
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
The Great Storm of Saint Jude
Like many people in southern Britain, we have spent the last 4 or 5 days waiting ominously for a great storm to arrive. We were promised that it would be comparable to the “Hurricane” of 1987, an event I very much remember as a child and not just because of an inability to get to… Continue reading The Great Storm of Saint Jude
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
Surviving The Scorchio Summer
It’s nearly the middle of July and surprise, surprise it is sunny and hot here. It may be sound unusual to find someone surprised of summery weather but it is a genuine surprise to everyone in London and not necessarily a good one apparently. I remember growing up and it was hot or at least… Continue reading Surviving The Scorchio Summer
The first snow of winter!
You know that Christmas is just around the corner when the first snow arrives. Before our company moved from London (just a few miles from Heathrow) my colleagues would cast scorn on the idea that ig might be snowing just 10 or 15 miles away… although it didn’t stop some of them from unscrupulously having… Continue reading The first snow of winter!
The Long Road To Winter
It might seem strange to write about winter on one of the sunniest and warmest weekends to hit these parts for months (if not all year) but the truth is that winter is weighing on my mind and to me at least it has already started. The road to winter is long and drawn out… Continue reading The Long Road To Winter
Bank Holiday Monday(s)
First of all thank-you to everyone who liked my blogs last week when I was away. I’m glad they were appreciated and I really enjoyed following up on the people who ‘liked’ me. Monday is a Bank Holiday in England, our last one until the Christmas period. Until the 1830’s we had over 30 bank… Continue reading Bank Holiday Monday(s)
Sponsorship stupidity
For those in the U.K. it needs no explanation but for everyone else it should be said that we here in this green and pleasant land are enjoying even more greenness than usual. This is because for the 6th year in a row we are enduring a washout summer. With April and June being the… Continue reading Sponsorship stupidity
Stephen Liddell 