The sporadic moments of warmth we had in February which held such promise for March, quickly faded away as the bitter, cold weather arrived early in the month. Snow arrived in Bristol
I love this time of year. The energy stirring underfoot, snowdrops and daffodils out in full force, birdsong increasing, the tunes changing and light coming back into our lives. Time to celebrate
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 snow. It felt good to see and to feel the ice cold winds
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 battered the UK and floods brought various areas to a
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 than I had previously realised. However, on
How about this as something to celebrate – one of the RSPB founders, Emily Williamson, launched a campaign in 1889 to end the slaughter of birds for fashion. Emily joined forces with
By the end of August the UK had entered a ‘False Autumn’, brought about by the extreme weather conditions that had occurred during July and August. The MET informs us that it
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 temperatures reaching 30 degrees, followed by
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 experienced; on The Lizard we rarely fit into any
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. I did a quick comparison with May of last year.
Keats referred to the Bluebell, (or Wild Hyacinth), as ‘Saphire Queen of the mid-May’ but with the changing weather patterns and warmer winters it is now ‘Queen of mid-April’. The woods
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 and often sunny but the nights were bitterly cold and full of
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 average. On the 18th the full moon lit up the sky
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 days on the first of January. A flow of subtropical air had blown