Autumn is when we begin wonder why every year Britain is not prepared for winter. Autumn is when trains don’t run because of leaves on the line. Or a low sun in the eyes of the drivers. Or flooded rails. Or fallen trees.Autumn gives frost warnings, and the weather men start mithering about the possibility of a ‘coldest winter this century, with snow lasting weeks if not months’. Autumn. The heating goes on again. Sunrise is after breakfast. The first gales blow more and more leaves off the…
