Three-quarters of the world's heather moorland is found in Britain; the heather flowers purple in August, the bracken shines bronze in the autumn and the moors are dusted white with snow in midwinter.
The blinkered insularity prevalent in England may be gauged from the fact that Frank Coles, the Daily Telegraph correspondent, asked himself how the Hungarians would fare against an English club team fighting for points in midwinter.
After a Christmas Day that saw much of the country bathed in brilliant sunshine, Britain has been warned to prepare for a bleak midwinter when, as Christina Rossetti observed, "frosty wind made moan/ Earth stood hard as iron/ Water like a stone".
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A freezing midwinter morning.
IN THIS especially bleak midwinter, what better excuse to have a drink and a knees-up than commemorating the birth of Robert Burns, the Scottish ploughman whose demotic verse was perhaps the first dialect version of English to achieve world literary and popular acclaim?
Deathly archive Room without a view Train reaction Bleak midwinter Auntie's big year Edonomics ReprintsOak Lane, a legal traveller site adjoining Dale Farm, is overcrowded.
Deathly archive Room without a view Train reaction Bleak midwinter Auntie's big year Edonomics ReprintsThe announcement came from Alex Salmond, first minister of Scotland's devolved government and boss of the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP).
Dr Ghezzi and Dr Ruggles identified two observation points, one on either side of the ridge, from where the midwinter sun would appear to set at one end of the string of towers and the midsummer sun would appear to set at the other end.
Despite huge increases in inequality, America may be no less mobile a society than it was 40 years ago.In this section The state of the president More than a mom Mobility, measured In the bleak midwinter Bolshie with a banjo Old Mexico lives on Death, where is thy bling?
Deathly archive Room without a view Train reaction Bleak midwinter Auntie's big year Edonomics ReprintsEd Miliband, the Labour Party's increasingly criticised leader (see Bagehot), wants to go even further.
