On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:44:01 +0100, "Martin Rowley"
wrote:


"JPG" wrote in message
.. .

I suspect that our correspondents blessed with living on the parched
heaths of
the Royal County of Berkshire will look at the brown verges and wonder
what I'm
talking about.

... they've started perking up over the last 10 days or so - though it's
the weeds that are giving the green atm in my garden! But yes, the
recent rain has been welcome - if only to damp down the slow-burn
undergrowth and stop the heath fires of recent weeks.

They were always a problem around Bracknell, as I recall. In the 1976 summer
the landscape was dotted with small fires - there was one at South Hill Park
quite close to where I lived (Hanworth) and numerous ones around Camberley way.

Martin


As someone said elsewhere, it does remind me of summers more often that
not in the '50's and '60's - yes we had some good-uns, but often we were
dodging the rain.

Martin.