Spring in our steps
According to this article, it’s hotter than Corfu, Malaga and Milan and there’s more to come…
I was at a community consultation event in Heckington (10 points for anyone who can tell me how many sails on its windmill!), testing whether the settlement profiling work done by a group of consultants matched local people’s experiences.
We got onto the discussions about the “Natural” domain (essentially a measure of local bio-diversity) and my heart sank when one of the participants said: “Now don’t get me onto global warming.” I thought of that reading this article and of the students I passed on the way home last night having a picnic in their front garden on a patch of grass next to County Hall.
In typical style, the Daily Mail goes on from its headline to exclaim: “The glorious spring conditions appear to finally spell the end of Britain’s sub-zero winter, where temperatures of -10C gripped the country. Roads were jammed and plagued with potholes before Christmas and the sporting calendar was decimated by the cold weather when Britain shivered through the festive season.
But sunseekers put the chilly winter well and truly behind them today by taking to the great outdoors thanks to bright spells across Eastern and Southern England.”
Will we ever stop talking about the weather? More importantly what is the overall impact on council budgets and planning of our ever increasingly unpredictable weather? Don’t get me onto global warming…