But Dan , your Ooop Norf and on t'other side of the world.
We should have more sun ..... I'll get the Welsh Assembly to bring it on down
We're in one of the sunniest places in Scotland, 1500 annual hours of sunshine on average according to the MO, compared with 1750 in the sunniest place on mainland Britain.
I used to live in Crianlarich in the western highlands, where you knew it was summer because the rain was warmer. This ditty definitely applied there:
It rained and rained and rained and rained,
The average was well maintained;
And when our fields were simply bogs,
It started raining cats and dogs.
After a drought of half an hour,
There came a most refreshing shower;
And then the queerest thing of all,
A gentle rain began to fall.
Next day 'twas pretty fairly dry,
Save for a deluge from the sky.
This wetted people to the skin,
But after that the rain set in.
We wondered what's the next we'd get,
As sure as fate we got more wet.
But soon we'll have a change again,
And we shall have..... A drop of rain