Warm (18C and rising), sunny with some cloud. Forecast to go to 20C which means 22C in back garden. Happy (and warm) bunnies.
@POPS There’s something about the sound from a Merlin that can touch a chord in the human body. We once took a 15-yr-old youngster to a flyover by the Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane. She knew nothing about the events of 1940 but those six Merlins still stirred the emotions. She was quite shocked by the effect. No-one has done the science as far as I know. But, musically, I believe it is something to do with “modulation” in the sounds. In the same way that, say, the Pearl Fishers duet or the Romance from Shostakovich’s Gadfly Suite can have a emotional effect. Howard Goodall did a piece about it ages ago in a great series about popular music.