I'm looking excited about the perennial whinging
about it being too hot/not hot enough/too wet/too dry/too windy/too humid etc etc ad infinitum that always happens in this country. Along with all the usual "jokes" about summer having been for one week only and so on.

We don't live in the Mediterranean.
( Kroney, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 11:44, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I'm with you there
it's not like the changeable weather is a surprise
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 11:51, Reply)

That's the thing, though
Apparently it is. At some point, we seem to have had a period of long, hot summers where it didn't rain, yet simultaneously provided us with enough water for 60 million people to not to have to worry about a hose-pipe ban.

I don't know when this mythical time was, because it hasn't been in the 31 years I've been alive, but a lot of people seem awfully put out that it's stopped happening.
( Kroney, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 11:55, Reply)

'75 and '76
were the last long hot summers I think. Being as I was about 1, I can't remember whether or not there was a hosepipe ban I'm afraid, but I'm pretty sure there was no rain from about april to september in 1976.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 11:59, Reply)

I want to live in the mediterranean
so I can complain about it being too hot to do anything and tell everyone that I'll do everything manana. I can't do the squiggly n thing.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 11:52, Reply)

Why are you looking excited?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 11:56, Reply)

Because inside I'm a seething ball of impotent rage.
I only appear to be other emotions on the surface.
( Kroney, Mon 20 Jun 2011, 11:57, Reply)