Well, it’s not exactly England… but it could be
It’s hot.
It’s wonderfully, sunnily, bees-buzzing-mightily, hot. Get-your-sunglasses, tie-a-hankie-on-your-head, hot.
This is an unusual thing for the UK, in case you’re wondering. It’s an opportunity to be grabbed by both hands and enjoyed, as it may be taken from us without warning, not to return until July, or even August, of next year. There is plenty of joking about it, that this week is all the summer we are going to have, even though certain of the papers, as they do every year, are predicting a six-week ‘heatwave.’ Who knows? This time next week I could be back in my winter coat, as I was three weeks ago. The vagaries of weather on this small green island have made us a nation hopeful and resolute: ‘It’ll clear later,’ ‘blue sky over there,’ ‘mustn’t grumble‘.
So on days like this, when the scent of rose and hawthorn and honeysuckle fill the air, when bare arms and legs are kissed with Riviera-like heat, we enjoy. When it’s warm enough to walk up to school in the morning without a jacket, to sit outside for an evening meal, to keep the blinds closed in an effort to keep the heat out, we revel.
And a few months from now when the nights draw in, cold with frost, we’ll remember. And we’ll hope once more, looking forward to when summer comes again.
Helen Glynn Jones 
Same here. But ours will only last till tomorrow. 😕🌞💕 Unfortunately, living next door to a cattle farm, and right in the heart of cattle farming, we have been plagued with flies. Ugh!
Oh no, that’s no good! Flies are the worst. They are everywhere in Australia – I never understood those hats with the corks until I went to live there 😀 Still, hope you’re getting to enjoy some of the lovely weather while it lasts x
Yay! I am now hopeful that by Summer visiting you, it might mean she will take a break from us if only for a few days.
Oh well, that would suit me too 🙂 I hear it’s pretty hot over there, fingers crossed for some cool breezes for you
It’s raining in India now but I feel whatever season we are in, we long for the other. 😉
Beautifully put, and very true 🙂
You’ve made me long for summer again! Not that I have any right to complain—our winters here are so ridiculously short. Still, I have no tolerance for the cold. x
Hehe, it will be with you again before you know it!