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Well there it is, Lancashire is ruled over by sadistic weather gods! How else do you explain it? All over Europe there’s been a burning hot summer with people complaining about the heat but in Lancashire you’re lucky if you get round to taking the winter duvet off the bed. It isn’t as if there has been no sunshine at all. No, it is worse than that. The sun will come out for the last hour before sunset after a gloomy overcast day. Alternatively, there’ll be a bright sunrise and then it’ll cloud over and tip it down for the remainder of the day. All sunny intervals are suspect and even the idea of a really hot sunny day is the kind of legendary myth worthy of Tolkien or Salvatore. What did the people of Lancashire do to deserve such vengeance from the sadistic weather gods? Any ideas?
On Thursday we looked at the five day weather forecast and Saturday was going to be sunny intervals with no rain whilst Friday was going to be overcast. Let’s go on Saturday, we decided. Well, here it is and we sit here on Saturday looking out of the window at the pouring rain having had a lovely sunny day yesterday wondering how it is the Metereological Office staff keep their jobs and why weather reports are not listed under Fantasy & Fiction. Best guess is that they have a pack of cards with weather symbols on and just flick a few down for the coming five days and then when each day arrives they do what we all do and look out the window first thing in the morning. Then they quickly change today’s weather forecast to whatever looks most likely for the day. When I was twelve years old our geography teacher explained cold fronts, weather patterns, wind speeds and then exclaimed that all this shows why weather reporting is so accurate. He was most upset at the howl of laughter that went up from thirty young kids yet all these years later we still go by these predictions that are so often wrong … must be to do with the wrong type of leaves or something 
CATERPILLAR'S MUSHROOM by Brian Froud (Ltd).