Any climate change deniers left out there should read this week's New Scientist (17th November 2012). The evidence is coming down our lane. For twelve hours rain has been pelting on our roof. Swinestead Lane is churning with frothy brown vinegar and the beach below is submerged under half an acre of quagmire. We can't drive out because the hedge on the side of the lane has slid down in a two ton thump of mud. Need to get a digger in.
A change though to be talking to neighbours and listening to flood warnings on local radio while the big news is about bomb blasts in far away places.
And on yesterday's delayed trains as we escaped from water locked Taunton jam packed carriages buzzed with jolly conversations. Our companion, a submarine engineer from Barrow in Furness had spent months under the Arctic icecap, responsible for the hundreds of valves controlling air and water purification for 100 men. When he was 5 his dad and older brother died climbing on Mt Blanc.
A change though to be talking to neighbours and listening to flood warnings on local radio while the big news is about bomb blasts in far away places.
And on yesterday's delayed trains as we escaped from water locked Taunton jam packed carriages buzzed with jolly conversations. Our companion, a submarine engineer from Barrow in Furness had spent months under the Arctic icecap, responsible for the hundreds of valves controlling air and water purification for 100 men. When he was 5 his dad and older brother died climbing on Mt Blanc.
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