Peter Harzam [snip]: 
>...winters in London are bitterly cold. 

That should read *used to be* bitterly cold. That's not been the case
since the last big freeze in the early 1960s. Unlike "oop t'north",
nowadays London rarely has daytime temperatures that fall to 0 deg C.
(Bluebells are just beginning to peep above the soil in my garden
already!)

Pub quiz question: Which town has the highest latitude, London or Quebec?

Allen Esterson
Former lecturer, Science Department
Southwark College, London
http://www.esterson.org/

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