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Sacha wrote:

It's extraordinary, Charlie. You've had it worse than we have here, so near
Dartmoor and yet you're supposed, if anything to have a milder time of
winter in Cornwall. This has been a very peculiar winter where snow and ice
are concerned and it doesn't sound as if it's over yet. In fact, having
written that I looked out of the window and it's now sleeting.

That's what happened in 1962-3, too. It hasn't been very cold in
Cambridge, though it has been colder than any sustained period for
the past decade.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.