Although being born an Englishman automatically qualifies one as an honorary meteorologist – we tend as a nation to greet our friends, neighbours and indeed, complete strangers, with our opinions of the current weather situation – no modern English weather-man has summed up the British climate in a single sentence better than the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus, who in AD94 wrote:

“The sky is overcast with continual rain and cloud, but the cold is not severe”.
-Cornelius Tacitus, Agricola, 12.3.

Nothing changes does it? Well, obviously since Tacitus wrote that it’s got fu. . . bloody colder!

Julius Cæsar described Britannia (Britain) as “the Empires arsehole” in his journals. (Because it was a terrible place or just full of shit?) Being posted to Hadrians Wall in Roman times was like being posted to the Russian Front in the German Army during the last war!