Rain, rain go away, at least for a day or two. What an extraordinary journey, after the total desiccation that was last summer, the ground is now so wet and

Well, that felt a bit more like a winter month. Once again though Gloucestershire dipped under the early snow storm, Goretti might have been founded on a bit of hearsay.

So we turn into another year and it is bound to be as topsy-turvy as the last. This year has certainly been a little testing. We started wet, fried through

Well, we’d muttered about the slow move to Autumn and rolled up to changing the clocks without serious seasonal collapse and then bang it happened. A few stormy days and

The early days of October swept through and in Gloucestershire we were nudged by the edge of Hurricane Amy as it headed north. Generally, the days were kind and the

A slightly more interesting month and we did eventually see some rain too. It was a strange pattern and most days I found myself putting on extra clothing, then needing