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1. on May 27, 2013 at 8:35 am alectorix

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2. on May 28, 2013 at 6:15 am chervilmeadow

   I don’t know about the current accuracy of weather forecasting elsewhere, although I suspect it’s just as precise as here in Britain. Being of a certain vintage I can even recall the days long before weather satellites when my cousin Billy was a spitfire pilot whose post war duties included flying his plane out into the Atlantic to get some early warning of what the prevailing westerly winds were about to deliver – usually more rain.

   A lot of people here will not remember a disappointing spring like this one, so yesterday,on a national holiday which we knew would be sunny and fairly warm it seemed as if the whole nation and their dogs were out sailing and walking together along the banks of the Thames between Marlow and Henley.

   But that was yesterday, today, like in retrieverman’s photograph, mist and rain prevail.

   A terrible report has just been published indicating a tragic 60% drop overall in Britain’s wildlife and you can bet we are not alone in this regard. We can only take small comfort from the exceptions. As a result of cleaner water systems, for example, otters are now being seen playing with their cubs in broad daylight on stretches of river in the centres of towns. Red kites with two metre wingspans dramatically descend on suburban gardens to pick up scraps.But where are the honeybees in the numbers I knew when I kept those twenty hives in my cherry orchard!?

   
   

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