It's going to be like this for the next 7 months, isn't it?

[World's End Stella]

This is a civilised climate. Rarely too hot, rarely too cold. Proof, some might suggest, that god is an Englishman.

Winter is cosy. Winter is fresh. The city looks great at night - all the tiny lights - the antipodes as you'll recall from your Huxley.

You're ignoring the main issue, Ash. It isn't the temperature or the amount of rain in this godforsaken country. It's the lack of sunshine that is the killer.

The sun is good, Ash. It prompts physiological changes which make you feel better, happier. Everything is better under sunny blue skies and England has far too few of them.

Which is why we have pubs, of course. Well, that's my theory anyway.