While Londoners are anticipating a heat wave, in Canterbury it’s cold! Being Sunday morning I stayed in bed until 8.15 a.m., and enjoyed getting up in daylight for once. My plan was to get out in the garden, but the temperature was minus two degrees and this was the garden’s frosty state:
Frosty Avon Loop garden on Sunday 28 June 2009
An hour later the temperature had reached zero, and I’d decided the place to be was at the computer rather than in the garden.
Apparently the name Jack Frost comes from Viking folklore. It’s derived from the Norse word Jokul meaning icicle, and Frosti meaning frost.
“I wondered why Frost was called Jack
and found it went a long way back.”
