In article , Nick Maclaren
writes


Trees changing colour? They need frost to do that! For the past
few years, their leaves have rotted off before changing colour, due
to the wet ....

Are you sure of that? we have autumn colours in the garden, and no frost
yet. And the last few years have seen the most beautiful colours.


The prospect of 4 months of near-continual wet, the sort of cold
that gets to your bones, and continual darkness is too horrible to
contemplate it. Unfortunately, I can't avoid it :-(


There *are* universities in other bits of the UK, you know. You don't
*have* to live in E Anglia.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm