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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA)
Guest
I couldn't help but smile at the headlines in one of the nationals which proclaimed:
"Summer will be a Washout!"
I think back to my youth and wonder, in those days -was it ever thus? A good English summer had short periods of sunshine and heat, interspersed with showers. It had days of soft soaking rain and occasional violent thunderstorms that made the tench come on feed.
There has recently been summers in Engand and temperatures, at times, reminicent of the Kalahari. Times when the English countryside has looked like the Veld in winter.
I often wonder from the moans I hear whether the British wouldn't prefer to livein the barren heat of Saudi Arabia or the rancid stinking sweaty haze of Lagos.
Well would you?
Personally I much prefer a summer like we have now.
"Summer will be a Washout!"
I think back to my youth and wonder, in those days -was it ever thus? A good English summer had short periods of sunshine and heat, interspersed with showers. It had days of soft soaking rain and occasional violent thunderstorms that made the tench come on feed.
There has recently been summers in Engand and temperatures, at times, reminicent of the Kalahari. Times when the English countryside has looked like the Veld in winter.
I often wonder from the moans I hear whether the British wouldn't prefer to livein the barren heat of Saudi Arabia or the rancid stinking sweaty haze of Lagos.
Well would you?
Personally I much prefer a summer like we have now.
