The English Summer August 13, 2008
Posted by mandymullet in England.Tags: autumn, clouds, rain, spring, summer, thunder, thunderstorm, weather, wind, winter
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In my initial post Mandy Mullet at Home, I gave you all an idea about who I am and where I hail from. Well, now its time to start writing a load of personal gibberish that some may find interesting or not, whichever is the case. This blog is really meant as an outlet of my thoughts, frustrations, annoyances, joys… good times and bad times all mingled in together to create a kaleidoscope of mental images, ideas and outpourings.
What is this post about?
Well, in England, people are often said to speak incessantly about the weather. So I’m going to be a good English girl and do exactly that. Not what the met office tells us and rather annoyingly gets right most of the time, because when they forecast rain (which is most of the time) its not very nice to be almost constantly reminded of the abundance of precipitation that our small island has graciously bestowed upon it.
Yes, you have probably already guessed. Its summer and I don’t think anyone has noticed again. For another year running. I think the intellectual classes should seriously consider removing the word “summer” from the English dictionary as they often do with words that have fallen into disuse! We have no problems with winter, spring or autumn. We get our fair share of those seasons, but summer seems to arrive in a maelstrom of tempest briefly interspersed with a brief glimmer of that yellow round thing that allegedly exists in the sky, oh yes, the sun I believe its called!
We English are really made to suffer!
We work all week in our offices and look out of the window at the sun shining here and there, plan our barbecues for the weekend and inevitably end up having to order takeaway pizza and all sit around indoors while the thunder, lightning and torrential rain saves us the bother of watering our gardens!
There is a bank holiday weekend looming in a couple of weeks time. We all know what that means! Don’t bother planning anything outdoors! Definitely don’t plan to drive in the direction of any of our coastlines because everyone else will be turning our motorways into car parks. Might as well just wait and see what happens.
If by some miracle the sun decides to shine, I think the best place to be is out in the countryside sitting in an olde worlde pub garden with a refreshing drink and some good friends! At least if the sunshine is short-lived, we can all dive inside and get plastered with the perfect excuse that the rain prevented any of us from coming home!
Ok, that’s all for now. Anyone reading this who lives in a warmer, sunnier climate will probably have absolutely no idea what it’s like here. Really.
Which is probably why most of the rest of the world thinks we’re off our trolleys!
Hi Mandy -
Congratulations – on getting this number (18 as of today) of Zooms by warbling on about that bane of English existence, “the weather”.
As one who ‘lives in a warmer sunnier climate’, as is Sth Australia, I have absolutely no idea what it’s like there – after enduring the ‘coldest August on record’ for Adelaide, (we had to light fires for 6 consecutive days during one week), we can be sympathetic to those mortals living in less favoured climes, but cheer up rapidly as we head back out to the patio with a fresh drink in one hand and a pair of Sunnies in the other…………….
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