I was in London in the Summer, in early 1990's when there was a "heatwave" and I remember the usually green, grassy hill at Greenwich being dry and brown.
To Australian eyes, this was nothing unusual...
To the Londoner's eyes, though, it was nothing short of catastrophic...
So much for England's green and pleasant fields... on my travels I noted that some of it was beginning to resemble the land round Northern Victoria - mostly brown, with only the occasional patch of green... ha ha...
I spent some time while I was in the UK with a man who designed and built golf courses and remember him bemoaning the fact that the weather was starting to dry out, and changing the way he worked. He jokingly said, over a couple of beers, that he should hire an Australian as a consultant, because we better understood hot and dry climates, ha ha...
Even thirty years ago the climate was already beginning to change.
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