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Lashings of lakes
FEEDBACK sincerely hopes that readers in flood-prone parts of the UK are over the worst of it now. The huge quantities of water that have been sloshing around inevitably generated a surge of strange similes.
Three readers alerted us to the Windermere as a unit of water – after the lake in Cumbria celebrated by the Romantic poet William Wordsworth. David Williams informs us that The Times, for example, on 11 February reported on its front page that 300…
