"Mel" wrote in message
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This awful weather is driving me nuts! Up here in Bolton it's either
raining or snowing; the soil is either frozen or sodden, and the forecast is
for much of the same. I ventured onto my allotment yesterday and almost
lost my boots to the mud! All this talk of hosepipe bans "dahn sahf" is
very perplexing to me up here i't'north.

All the brass monkeys are hiding indoors in Holland because it s SO cold :~))
Brrrrrrrrr Jenny