> Sometimes I wish we had more changes in the weather and seasons. Usually I'm pretty thankful for what we have and know it could be worse.

NO NO NO NO!!!! At least you have some idea when you wake up in the morning what the weather is going to be like and you are able to make some argument vs your mother as to whether you should take a coat/sweater/cardigan/body-warmer/gloves/hat when you leave the house in the morning. I live in a country when it is quite able to reach 35 degrees and then rain freezing rain and then hail and then still have time to have one of those lovely clear quiet summer evenings. I am still scarred from the time I went out in late April in my shorts in (admittedly weak)sunshine only to have to hide in the car for the rest of the afternoon from the SNOW.

Yes folks....that would be England.

So Ferrick, I get your point but would suggest that a little stability in the weather department is a good thing. England doesn't get particularly hot in the summer or particularly cold in the winter but you can be sure that if you want a white christmas, it will be very cold, there will be frost, the sky may even pelt us with freezing slush but it will never snow if we want it to. However, if there is a particularly good reason for it not to snow, it generally will.

Similarly, the sun will shine in the summer apart from on days when there is a fair or a wedding or Wimbledon or anything you want to do that requires sun.

Wow, that rant came from nowhere....did anyone else see that one coming? This unfortunately proves the English 'thing' of constantly talking about the weather. Probably because it's something we are good at. I mean, it's not like we're good at tennis or anything....

[sigh....oh Tim....Greg.....sigh]

> Fer"puddle-jumping"rick

Liz"oh yes indeed"zie
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