2025-12-01
If you are lamenting the current wintry British weather, spare a thought for those for whom the sun no longer shines - not until well into next year anyway.
"Ah but they are used to it" you cry - but so are we. British weather is still mild by comparison with similar latitudes in Europe, thanks to the benevolence of the Gulf Stream. And we benefit from daylight sunshine reasonably often during winter months, even if nowhere near sufficiently often to make Ed Miliband's fantasies into a viable power grid. Even so, a deep freeze winter is thankfully something of a rarity.
So how do those for whom a deep and dark freeze is an annual occurrence cope with their lot?
