fuck!

It is July 5th, about half four in the afternoon. And the above is what passes for summer weather this year.

If anyone doubted Climate Change surely the last three or four weeks have shown even them that something is seriously wrong. After the floods last week we've hardly seen the sun. My shed is still in pieces in the garden waiting for a couple of dry days so I can put it together. Visitors have almost vanished from the railway and who can blame them?

Well on Saturday we're off to Brittany. Even there the weather is only reasonable. D'you suppose 2007 will be remembered as the Year Without a Summer?

This time last year temperatures were in the thirties. This is what happens when the Jet Stream sticks. We get heatwaves or crap. And this is just the beginning ...