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Wettest summer for years? I blame the politicians

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From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20020804
Author:MAGNUS LINKLATER

"A WET, drizzling, dismal day," wrote Sir Walter Scott in the autumn of 1827. "I finished odds and ends, scarce stirring out of my room yet doing little to the purpose." A few days later, he was complaining about "a base, melancholy weeping day" and then "another vile, damp drizzling day".

The language is as morose as the writer. "Vilely low in spirits," he writes. "I have written a page and a half and doubt whether I can write any more. A thick throbbing at my heart... a disposition to sleep, or to think of things melancholy and horrible while I wake."

It is only when the late autumn sun ...

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