Some readers will know of this project. After 4 years, 4 months
and 12 days I finally gained access to the site in early-March,
and observations there began this morning. It is a well-exposed
(or will be when the hedge is cut) hilltop site. I will continue to
take max/min/grassmin/rainfall in my frost-pocket garden.

The observatory is part of the Chilterns Observatory Trust,
a charitable trust set up two years ago to run a weather-station
including a working museum of traditional instruments; a
meteorological/climatological library; to provide a source of
advice and guidance to non-professional observers, including
supplying some instruments (chiefly manual raingauges); and to
offer a safe home for observers' records and instruments in the
form of a legacy when they are no longer required so that they
do not end up in a skip as so often has happened in the past.

The trustees are myself, Stephen Burt, Roger Brugge and
Joe Hunt. All aspects of the Trust's work are now functioning.

Philip
PS This has nothing to do with the date just in case anyone
wondered