"I wonder how much memory affects how we perceive the way things happened; but when we were little, when summer started my Mum would pull the suitcase out of the cupboard, and we'd get our summer clothes out - you'd get your new sandals for the summer, you'd get your new summer frock and that was to do you. We would wear our summer clothes all summer and I don't recall ever being cold. Then, a few weeks ago there was a sunny day and I was like 'Oh, where's my shorts? I haven't unpacked my summer wardrobe for years', because it seems to me these days it's so changeable that I always want to have a fleece with me, or a pair of boots in case. Now, maybe that's just my perception of how it was when I was little - that everything was perfect and rosy; but it does seem to me that it used to be more steady, the weather. I remember we would then start school again in September and they said 'You can't wear your summer uniform because it's the autumn term.' and we'd be there sweltering in jumpers."

"One of the things I think about when I think about the weather is that when we were growing up and went to school, everybody walked to school. I mean there was nobody not walking, apart from people who lived outside town - they might come in in a pony and trap or something. We walked, whatever the weather was like. If it was bucketing rain you walked to school, and when you got into school you could be drenched and the piping system in the school, the central heating, I can remember that. There were these big huge pipes along the sides of the rooms."