| michael adams 2005-09-26, 5:21 am |
| "Nick Maclaren" <nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <3pnelbFarteuU1@individual.net>,
> michael adams <mjadams28@onetel.net.uk> wrote:
>
> Don't look up irony in the dictionary - it will only increase your
> confusion.
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Indeed so. That someone living in East Anglia, traditionally one of the
driest areas in the country should be awash while someone living in the
West Country, traditionally among the wettest should be suffering drought.
Except that the OP, and a goodly proportion of readers probably won't
have been immediately aware of those facts, aynd ...
Nick Maclaren" <nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
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" But a few miles away, different conditions have occurred."
Otherwise, I would have thought that the vagaries of the British weather
would have exhausted their ironic potential (fate) a good few centuries
ago. Although there is of course a satisfying element of (Socratic) irony,
in anyone's needing to point out their supposed cleverness, to a largely
unheeding hoi polloi.
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>
> I don't know where Mick resides, but I am posting from Cambridge,
> and it has been a very WET summer in my garden (though, as I said,
> that has not been the case for all of the area). I am aware of what
> has been happening elsewhere in the UK :-)
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Indeed so, as is often the case I believe.
Your point being ?
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disappointingly[color=darkred]
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> Generally correct. Too much rain at the wrong time tends to cause
> poor pollination or rot rather than small fruit.
>
>
> Regards,
> Nick Maclaren.
michael adams
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