Yes we have a light dusting of snow but the trains are still running this cold morning. Lillie in London on the phone to her mum last night, demanded to see outside the window, of course in overheated London snow is rarely found.
Which brings me to climate change, deniers please turn away now, you don't have to read what I write. I have been watching the footage of the misery and full scale landscape change the hurricane Helene brought on the people of Ashville in North Carolina. Tons of mud and trees swept down the hill sides, houses sailed along the river, roads disappeared, the tarmac picked up like cardboard by the rushing water. Bridges disappeared.
The volunteers came to help, but lives have been shattered, rumours are fueling worry that children might be taken away by social officers. Water and electricity is slowly being brought in. The river water is poisonous the cadaver dogs die after drinking it.
People make do, don't they ever? But in as much as the Ashville and surrounding district is in a terrible state, so the same thing has happened in Spain in the Valencia floods. Cars piled up like toys in narrow streets, 200 odd dead, I think it is similar for Ashville dead.
The weather has suddenly become heavier and wilder, the rain beats down with fury, the icebergs and glaciers breakdown and flow more freely and the scientists warn us that this is definitely climate change.
Natural or manmade make your choice.
Now to something more cheerful, how our young adapt. Let us introduce 'Wet Leg' theme song on Morris dancing, it is so full of splendid gaiety, Ariel will love it (or maybe you won't) . How myths and magic light up a sometimes very dark world.
BBC news Morris Dancing
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