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Summer arrived last week and made quite a dramatic entrance as temperatures soared into the 30s and thunder rumbled overhead.

It was a little early, as meteorological summer does not begin until 1 June, and astronomical summer this year starts at exactly 9:24 am BST on 21 June if we want to be precise.

Ruby had to miss a couple of walks because it was simply too ...


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What a mixed bag of weather we had last week!

One minute we were sitting in the car with rain and hail pounding on the roof, the next we were shivering and reaching for an extra jumper. By the end of the week, however, we were applying sunscreen and enjoying some much-needed warmth.


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It was cold last week.

The Met Office may insist that May’s temperatures are average for the time of year, but it certainly did not feel like it. Records from the weather station in our garden paint a rather different picture. The average temperature for the first half of May this year has been just 10.1°C, whereas our records over the last sixteen years show an averag...


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We seemed to experience every season in a single week. Some days were pleasantly mild, with coats abandoned altogether, while on others we were piling on extra layers to keep warm. There was drizzly rain, along with a couple of frosty nights.

Late frosts always seem to arrive just as the potatoes begin to grow, s...


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