Lighting up From: The Spectator | Date: February 9, 2008| Author: Clarke, Jeremy | Copyright Spectator Feb 9, 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

What a depressingly sunless month January was, here on this rainswept Devon peninsula! No sun, and purple sprouting broccoli for lunch every day as there's a glut of it and not much else. The entire village is suffering from seasonal affective disorder and tortured by flatulence.

And we've still got February and possibly March to go before we can even think about casting a clout.

On Saturday, though, this interminable succession of dark days was punctuated by a Christian fest...

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