Extremes

Last updated: 8 January 2006

The book is a book of ordinary days. A few of them are remembered as themselves, and are asked after, and are set down here without pretending they are a climate. Dates are given where the book has them. Where it has not, we have not invented one.

The green, under snow. Photograph from the centre collection, year not marked on the print.

Hardest frost of which we have a note

8 January 2006, and 18 January 2004 before it. The green white until midday. Paths standing. Not a closure.

Wettest open day copied onto the record

28 November 2005. Eighteen millimetres between opening and close. The rides were reported heavy. The main line was walked as far as the garden.

The warmest afternoon of which we have a note

Not dated. The book says only “warm for the porch” and “still”. Someone has later written 19 August in the margin, which may be 2004. We have left the margin.

Snow that lay on the green

9 January 2005, until late morning; 14 December 2004, on the rides and not on the grass. The trail remained open in the sense advertised.

A good day for the church door

22 March 2005, and 2 March 2006. Fair. The south window finds the carving in the afternoon. We write this when we have had the door open.

Still

Written often. It means the grass on the green was not moving, and the porch was not moving. It does not speak for the rides.

These are not records in the sporting sense. They are the days people mention at the desk. The dated lines remain on the record.