Oh thank you, IanC for sharing that wonderful piece from the Times with us! And thank you Caitlin Moran, wherever you are, you're a genius!
Yes, Whittlesey is an odd place - I know it well - and, yes, it is very cold in January. I don't know how to express this but having grown up in nearby Peterborough I've always thought that the Fenland has a curious sort of charged atmosphere - boring most of the time (probably due to the extreme flatness!) but with a feeling that something interesting is bound to happen soon. Well, of course, every Plough Monday it does - anarchy breaks out in Whittlesey, of all places. One of my teachers used to use the name 'Whittlesy' as a sort of synonym for 'boring' and 'prosaic' - little did he know!!