It's called Winter

The pic above shows the view that met me on arrival at work today,snowy,cold and rather beautiful. Whilst working I heard several people on the radio talking about the weather here and the floods happening in Madeira in tones that could only be described as ominous,"we must do something to stop all this calamitous weather resulting from global warming/climate change". Now whilst not exactly decrepit I am nonetheless able to remember various other periods of inclement weather in the past, the equal or more of that we are presently experiencing....am I alone in remembering it is called ...Winter?

Winter woes.

I've never been a lover of January in England..its always wet and windy...windy and wet..take your pick. This January it seems we are having floods again...lets see..build houses on flood plains and....they flood, surprise! Nulabour reckon we need another couple of million houses for our new citizens fresh from foriegn fields...my advice...wear wellies! I could tolerate the weather if we had snow and ice but we never do...just grey grimy days. Meanwhile over the water I took a trip up to Napa and Sonoma again...weather...62 degrees...ha!...global warming,bring it on. I started day with a walk through vineyard with vinodogs major and minor...what a great place to build a house,something I have planned for sometime in the not distant future. In U.K. I would have to jump through hoops just to build a red brick box on a piece of waste ground and yet here I can make plans for a house incorporating anything I can think of...the difference between England's not so closet socialist state and Americas individualist outlook couldn't be better illustrated. In the afternoon a quick trip to Sonoma valley for a tasting at Ledson winery....good wine but an architectural nightmare...way too much money out here and not too much taste I,m afraid. All in all a fine winters day...and not an umbrella in sight!