heavy lifting

We do this about once a month.  Just the heavy stuff like tinned goods, cleaning products and Toblerone Ice Cream.  (Yes, that one surprised me when I saw it brought out to the car).  The rest of the shopping - the not so heavy stuff - we do in the town.  On foot.

The roads were very badly flooded this morning; we've lived in the Milton Keynes area for over 30 years and we saw areas of land under water that we've never seen before.  

Back in my student days I got to study past climate.  Using a mix of source materials - written records, tree-ring data and ice-core samples - it was possible to get a continuous picture of the Earth's climate stretching back thousands and thousands of years.  We knew back then that the climate was changing.