"I never saw a more straight-forward day of rain out of Cumberland, Wales, or Naples, and so dark withal I could scarcely see to read at midday, and got dreadfully low. I am ashamed to find myself so much at mercy of a dark sky." John Ruskin, 1841 (Denmark Hill, Surrey)
Mwahahah! It's a fair cop.

Whenever you quote Ruskin, I always picture him as he appeared in the Beeb's Desperate Romantics last year...