Posted by elizabeth on August 28, 2006 at 23:16:07 from 71.236.185.241 user Elizabeth.
In Reply to: Re: Weather posted by Jenny Berki on August 27, 2006 at 17:04:09:
I read regularly, respond respond occasionally. I am also, as Prue puts it, a "colonial"!
I agree with the realism of AR's use of weather--it is one feature that helps make the stories feel as if they really happened. My family and I have also experienced some of the weather AR describes, in the settings for the books--pouring rain, steady drizzle, morning fog, cool sunshine and dog-days heat in the Lakes District, plus a goregously sunny and lightly breezy day on the Broads. We would love to experience a snowy, icy winter at Coniston some year....
Elizabeth