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14
Oct

Your Cold Weather Emergency Kit

Last winter was extremely mild but just a few years before the winters of 2009/10 and 2010/11 subjected us to widespread snow and ice for weeks on end, and temperatures regularly dropping well below -10C. That year saw “the coldest December in the last 100 years and the coldest across central England since 1890” according …

30
Apr

Avoiding a Breakdown this Summer

Despite the overwhelming evidence for Global Warming it doesn’t seem that we in Britain are getting our fair share of the benefits – lots of “rainiest month since records began”, and not so much “repeat of the 1976 heatwave”. I don’t know about you but I’m ready for a heatwave, and I don’t count the …