What is it with this country and it's weather? I hail from the north west of England and for my sins have ended up in the south east of England. Whereas in my youth we would be subjected to steady, dependable days of winter, spring, summer and autumn all roughly three months in duration, I have now found myself in the most barmy (note that I said barmy, not balmy) of weather systems in one part of the Garden Of England ... the county of Kent! (Although, the way it's going down here it should be renamed the Motorway of England ...but, I digress) ... last year we had a normal summer: wall to wall rain with a few nice days of heat thrown in for good measure. At which point Kent was overwhelmed by the sound of barbecues being dragged out and fired up to accompany the raucous and forever beating throb and thrum of 'live music' from one of our local hostelries. A few wasps made a half hearted appearance, a small unit of worker bees lazily looked up from the flower they were on, decided it wasn't worth the effort, and then went back to what they were doing.
This year though, was promised, by every weather person to be a barbecue summer! Well, to be fair, it has, but this year we have had heat, heat and more heat with a few days of cold weather thrown in which plays havoc with the sinuses I'm sure you'll agree. Humidity is the killer though, it's so hard to breathe, imagine please, trying to breathe underwater with no diving gear on and you'll see what I mean. So, to all the heat huggers out there, be grateful you can hug the heat to your heart's content. I used to be like that, then I got older and so did my innards and they have decided over the last few years they don't like the heat and humidity and it's horrible, no really it is. Which brings me back to where I came in ... today is Wednesday 9th September 2009, it is officially a gloomy, cold miserable old git of a day here in my part of Kent, a miserly 20 degrees. Yesterday, it was 28 degrees and boiling hot! Where is the logic in that, where are my steady, dependable days of seasons (and their resulting temperatures) being in the right order?
Whoever thought it was funny to turn winter on now, at the beginning of September, please turn it off again, we're not ready just yet thanks.
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