We're partway through our second week of rain. Garden very soggy, people are talking longingly of other countries, and I'm wearing lots of woollies. Temperatures were very low (not by Canadian standards of course),  and the slight improvement is welcome. Almost reached halfway through the first month of winter.

I'm on holiday in Cornwall at the moment and it's wall-to-wall rain in what is supposed to be the first month of summer.  

Posted by: @courtenay

I'm on holiday in Cornwall at the moment and it's wall-to-wall rain in what is supposed to be the first month of summer.

Uh-oh!  Sounds wet.  Approximately what part are you in?  My brother and I only got to spend one week there, instead of the requisite two, so we didn't get to visit every section we wanted to see.  However, it hardly rained at all in the four months we were abroad, so quite a different experience than yours.

We are grateful for a few days of cooler weather--about 25C and the possibility of rain, as we head into full summer.

@aileth It was actually mostly raining over Dartmoor, in Devon — I was staying in a hostel there overnight (just to break the long drive down from Cheshire). Not long after I crossed the border into Cornwall, the rain eased and was gone by the early afternoon. I'm staying in Liskeard, but will be travelling around seeing favourite places — I come to Cornwall fairly often, as it's my favourite part of Britain (if only it wasn't so far away from where I live and work!).