Rain, Manchester Variety

Our squad strength has increased to four, having picked up Fifi and Rozana at the airport yesterday, in suitably rainy conditions. We're finally going on the move, leaving the comfort of our current loft to explore other spots in the currently grey north. We arrived here at the end of November to fierce cold but it wasn't raining then. Things have changed. It seems to have gone slightly warmer, according to objective measures, with day-time temperatures settling around 4 degrees. However, the rain that has settled in again makes it all seem much colder and generally bleak. Not a great welcome for the girls, but then it rarely is in these parts, at least with regard to the climate.