We'll probably just get them all within one day from time to time - or one day it will alter from wet and cold to blistering drought and remain unaltered until it changes to hurricanes or an ice age.

That is the thing about climate change, it is totally unpredictable.

I'm just glad that I chose a house on top of a ridge last time we moved. We can see the millionaires' houses down on the water's edge in Poole harbour from the back windows - we might have some interesting things to watch in our old age.