But that is what happens in days, weeks, months and years.... One day in, and 2025 bowling a yorker or three. To be dug out. Guard retaken. Face the next one... If any given year served up nothing ...

Zero degrees as I drove gingerly to the yard just now along ice rink black roads. Black ice lurking. Colder weather incoming with parts of Scotland set to record temperatures lower than -20 degrees.

Streams becoming rivers. Flooded roads. Water where water has never been. Whilst some of the country is under deep snow, Sussex is under water. And in danger of slipping into the Channel.... Several ...