I was listening to a BBC radio 4 programme this morning - Broadcasting House - which, as part of its 'inclusive' coverage did a couple of snapshot reports on weather north and south east (Kent to be precise); pity they did not cover the other end of the
country, Land's End, at least, or the Lizard, which is the southernmost tip of the UK. But then John O'Groats, at the northern end of the country, where the northern elements were broadcast, isn't the most northerly point either. It is however, closer to the northern most end of the UK than Kent is.

Wales and Northern Ireland didn't figure at all. You can read between my lines that I was not really impressed with this presentation. It did raise awareness with those who listen to Radio 4 at that time of a Sunday morning, of the differences in climate between one end of the country and another part of that same land mass. As ever, the media was looking for extremes of difference. They got it, by carefully choosing their targets, as they usually do.

We are having yet another ghastly wet blustery day, and in Kent, a lady was sitting out in her garden listening to birds that we could not hear, having her morning cup of tea.

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