Too hasty

Bathurst Park, Lydney

I can hear the comments of my Cornish friends: "You'm too 'asty, maid!" My confident assertion that winter had past was definitely premature. "... disregarding the probability of snow flurries this weekend," I wrote, "warmer days are here."

In my defence, the forecasters' expectation last Thursday was that the mini beast from the East would all but fizzle out over central England and give us little more than a light dusting.

Nonetheless I still live in hope. Temperatures will have soared to 9° by Thursday... I think.