Monday, 9 April 2012

Weather For Fools

I originally wrote the following on April 1st for the Ilkeston Cam website but forgot to copy it to Blogger.
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I thought I'd give you a rest this week from another pet peeve although there are several more that I could easily give voice to. There's plenty of time to return for a good whinge later so this week I'll turn my attention to something else.




After a week of really fine weather with relatively high temperatures for the time of year, the weather forecast today is for a drop to the seasonal average and even a slight possibility of snow tomorrow! Now I know that's it's April Fool's Day but can we really be expecting a return to scenes like this picture? I still maintain there's no such thing as global warming or as the experts are now calling it, climate change. I'm more inclined to believe my own theory of calendar slippage. I just hope that last week wasn't our summer and we are now moving into autumn. But no, it's still only spring and the falling temperatures will certainly be putting a spring in our step in the next few days. England must be one of the few places in the world where you can experience all four seasons in a few days!


To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. - George Santayana (1863 - 1952) 

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