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Mar 11, 2023
January 2023
"The river is A frozen place Held still beneath The trees of lace. The sky is low, The wind is gray, (sic) The radiator, Purrs all day"....
Feb 8, 2023
December 2022
I left the month of November fearing about the warmth of our Winter, and then December arrived and with it the cold, the hail and the...
Jan 6, 2023
November 2022
The rains came to visit and then decided to stay. Lots of rain, lots of sun, lots of rainbows, with warm days and mild nights. Storms...
Dec 6, 2022
October 2022
Early in the month, on the bank of the river at dusk, we made a recording of birdsong and to my delight there were many more birds around...
Nov 16, 2022
September 2022
How about this as something to celebrate - one of the RSPB founders, Emily Williamson, launched a campaign in 1889 to end the slaughter...
Nov 2, 2022
August 2022
By the end of August the UK had entered a 'False Autumn', brought about by the extreme weather conditions that had occurred during July...
Sep 27, 2022
July 2022
I looked up the blog for July 2022 and the first paragraph pointed out the obvious signs of climate breakdown staring us in the face with...
Sep 3, 2022
June 2022
Once again the month was described by the MET Office as 'mostly quiet and uneventful'. It doesn't fit the description of the month we...
Aug 7, 2022
May 2022
According to the MET Office, May came with a quiet and uneventful set of weather. Down here on the Lizard, it felt much better than that....
Jun 13, 2022
April 2022
Keats referred to the Bluebell, (or Wild Hyacinth), as ‘Saphire Queen of the mid-May’ but with the changing weather patterns and warmer...
May 10, 2022
March 2022
Although the first half of the month was unsettled in its weather, it had none of the drama of February. In general, the days were mild...
Mar 21, 2022
February 2020
It was a very dramatic month in terms of weather. It was the mildest February since 1884, (MET Office) but had far more rainfall than...
Mar 1, 2022
January 2022
January 2022 The winds blew hard on New Year’s Eve and gifted us with a wild night and a roaring campfire but we woke to the warmest of...
Feb 18, 2022
December 2021
Our December was mild despite Storm Barra arriving on the first day of the month. Ireland and the North of England were hit badly with up...
Jan 7, 2022
November 2021
The weather remained mild and settled for most of the month with a visit from Storm Arwen in the last week, which devastated the North of...
Dec 8, 2021
October 2021
According to the trusty MET Office, the weather for this month was dreary, damp and unsettled. Here on The Lizard, we had many misty...
Nov 13, 2021
September 2021
Every year during the summer months of July and August, we are led to believe that this will be the best harvest ever of blackberries. ...
Oct 20, 2021
August 2021
Yes, the waning days of July had lulled us into a false sense of security, promising delicious long days outside with heat from dawn to...
Aug 22, 2021
July 2021
Climate breakdown stared us in the face this month; the full gamut of weather conditions now regularly affecting our lives with soaring...
Aug 3, 2021
June 2021
Still the subject of weather dominates our thoughts and concerns. The temperature moved slowly towards a warmer note, but we had some...
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