I waited to see if there was enough discussion to start a new thread. The first one is getting quite long so here is PART TWO.Terry, I'm 100 miles north of Sydney, Oz and the breezes from Antarctica this week and a couple of weeks ago have meant that our usually glorious autumn weather, which is much like Spring weather, has turned wintry a lot earlier than usual.
Most years the winter doesn't hit until August, or even September, the first month of Spring. Pretty funny watching visitors to our fair shores telling everyone we don't get winter to speak of and then Mother Nature grins mischievously and sends it along in Spring instead.
Helen