RE: Today's fall8 Sep 2017 14:02
Maowombat, I had been in agreement with you and thus made a maiden investment in July. However, I think Deliveroo and the supermarkets must be eating into the turnover. Perhaps the company should consider home delivery of ios Pub Grub.
Furthermore I have a nagging doubt that blaiing the weather is a 'the wrong kind of leaves' excuse. It is a bit lazy. There has been a few quite nice days iirc.
August 2017
The start of August saw a continuation of the generally westerly flow which had been in place through the second half of July. This brought cloud and rain at times, with only brief intervals of fine weather, and it was mostly cool. It was rather warmer for a time around the 17th to 23rd, and the highest temperatures of the month occurred in south-eastern areas during 27th to 29th which also saw some fine weather. The close of the month saw a return to cooler showery conditions.
The provisional UK mean temperature was 14.5 °C, which is 0.4 °C below the 1981-2010 long-term average. Temperatures were near average in Northern Scotland and some eastern coasts, and rather below elsewhere. Rainfall was generally above normal, with more than 150% of average in places, but South Wales, Norfolk and Northumberland were a little drier than average. Sunshine was generally near normal, slightly below in some western areas with the brightest area being north-east England.
Nothing too untoward in that summary from the Met Office albeit sticking to August. There seems to be some underlying issues which need addressing rather than lazily balimg the weather. I think Weatherspoons by comparison have had LFL sales up 6% for some of the same period. GNK;s brewing is only marginally down when the sector is performing very poorly.