Summer
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Weatherwatch In Barnaby Rudge, his novel of the Gordon Riots, Charles Dickens gives us a vision of sunlit bliss before the murderous climax
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Country Diary: Brean, Bristol Channel As we walked the sand towards Burnham, we made out a strange, black shape in the bay
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Lazy, long summers by the beach: was it all just a dream?
Brigid DelaneyFrom Boxing Day to Australia Day, our national ideal gives us a month of a dream life, of salt-licked sandy days and evenings of barbecued fish and chilled white wine. But does this still exist, and did it ever?
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Letters: The Earth moves round the sun in an ellipse, rather than a circle, thus the times between the two equinoxes, spring to autumn and autumn to spring, are not equal
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With the arrival of the autumnal equinox and shorter days for the northern hemisphere, here is a reminder of what your summer looked like this year
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Cindered homes and blackened trees illustrate a bleak portrait of summer in Oregon, as longer, more expansive fires become annual national emergency
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Be wary of where your charcoal comes from – it may be produced under ‘dismal standards’ and with dwindling resources, says Lucy Siegle
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Country Diary: Bosley Cloud, Cheshire As folklore has it, witches used juices squeezed from the flowers to turn themselves into hares; the Victorians believed fairies slept in the bells
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Country Diary: Fermyn Woods, Northamptonshire In two hours of exploring open rides and twisting trails I see no other human
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Country Diary: Henstridge, Somerset Only a few intrepid bears opted for free fall, but all were safely gathered in by children holding a sheet below
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As the temperatures in Manhattan pushed above 30C, New York public radio station WNYC measured the sweatiest metro stops at rush hour
Birdwatch Willow warbler: our commonest, and most inconspicuous, summer migrant