green and pleasant land

Well the our 'bbq summer' has not materialised yet and its now August the 6th in fact many places have had their wettest July on record. Bristol in the West of England has had its wettest July for over a hundred years. The truth is that you cannot rely on the climate in this country to deliver some settled, sunny holiday weather. much as we kid ourselves that climate change is going to bring us mediteranian type weather its always going to be sensible to pack much more than your shorts and t-shirt if your going to holiday at home. sadly many who have decided to holiday in the U.K. this year for economic reasons will be heading back to the beaches of Spain, Italy and Greece again next year after they have had there annual breaks interupted by thunderstorms, floods and galeforce winds. The consolation is when you do return from those sun parched corners of the Med you realise when you fly in that we live in a beautiful green and pleasant land and its all thanks to the vast ammounts of rain that fall on it! Oh Jerusalem!!