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Muddymike · 13-02-2009, 01:08 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 13/2/09 12:25, in article
, "Muddymike"
wrote:

"moghouse" wrote in message
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I know there is little chance of doing much in the garden at present
so we are reduced to talking about the weather but....

Having said all that, I am a southern softy but the winters seem quite
mild to me now by comparison with the past.

I believe it is all about cycles of weather patterns, and that we have
just
entered a colder cycle.

Mike

I don't dismiss global warming but otoh, Ray, who thinks it's all rather
over-hyped, reminds me from time to time that the Romans grew grapes in
Yorkshire. What he doesn't pronounce upon is what the wine was like! ;-)
Do you really think we've entered a different cycle now? As a child in
the
50s I remember occasional freak weather when e.g. the snow was so bad on
Dartmoor bales of hay were airlifted to the ponies and there was flooding
in
various places. Perhaps it just is good old freaky British weather?

Charles Dickens has much to answer for on peoples expectations of British
winter weather. The years (mid 1800s) he was writing coincided with a series
of cold snowbound winters.

Mike