Pollen woes

Essex is covered in rape flowers and they are in full blossom right now. It looks beautiful from the train - fields of green and acidic yellow. Unfortunately the stuff stinks and also causes respiratory havoc. It's not helped by having a whole field of the stuff backing right on to our garden. This is life in the countryside; although I work in a polluted city, it's out here that my breathing gets troubled. I wonder what will assail the old bronchioles in Brum.