"Nigel Paice" wrote :


I appear to be in the relative dry spot in Romsey with a
grand total of 1.3mm for April 2007... but not as arid as
Wootton, Isle of Wight coming in at 0.7mm (lowest for
any month since I started the records there way back
on 1 January 1974).

(Lurching wildly off-topic ...)
Nigel, assuming you actually lived in Wootton in the 1970s,
did you know Adrian Scadding, Lt-Cdr, RN, ret.? He
spent some years of his retirement commuting to Aberdeen
to do night shifts at Imcos Marine's office there. Lovely
chap. Not sure whether NL knew him ... I think
he'd left by the time Norman moved into the London
office.

Philip