Alfresco

Been three in a row now. Not much rain lately and temps fairly mild, But... starting to feel the autumn chill setting in already!

Jen1977ni

Yeah I just commented on that in the 'How do you heat aussie homes in winter?' thread, I'm bl**dy freezing here and boys a dear those nites are fairly drawing in! GRRR

Fleaflyfloflum

Not down south. Its been a good summer! Was so hot at the weekend i had the fan on.

painter man

Cheer up it will be pishing it down tomorrow

Jen1977ni

Ha, yeah, luckily I got my swamp of a garden cut earlier 2nite...woo hoo NOT lol

Alfresco

Yep, I’ve been following that thread. Those acclimatised softies in Oz don’t REALLY know what COLD is anymore!

Brisben

and what a shame that is

JenniGee

Have to agree - in K*nt we've not had a bad summer at all. The kids have been out most days, only the odd day of rain & I've been wearing my shorts since June....much, much better than the last couple of years have been

jad n rich

My family are in 3 different parts of teh UK and all say its been a great summer too. Will have to tell them they must be wrong.

Meanwhile I am recovering from the 2 day winter snap of 35C. Looking forward to summer then

renth

I was there for the whole of July and it rained every day. Went up to Liverpool and it was not only pissing down but freezing too. If you think the UK had a good summer you are dreaming.

NickyC

And I was there from mid July to mid-August and I had one day where it didn't rain once. This was almost entirely in Hampshire, in the south.

There was even a headline news item one day on how bad the weather was - the Met Office were in trouble because they'd forecast a 'barbecue' summer earlier in the year - which apparantly caused heaps of people to take their summer holidays in Britain.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/ju...t-rain-holiday
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6731609.ece

Some breakfast TV program then did a special from some beach in Glamorgan which was windswept, soaking, grey and ghastly. You had to feel truly sorry for the poor damp kids being filmed whose parents had believed the weather forecast.

renth

Exactly - I'd slit my wrists if I had to live there again.

petensue

That is trueIt is funny though as I always though what on earth are people moaning at saying how cold it is in the winter in Oz it sounds like the British summer!Then you expeexperienceinter here with no heating,double glazing,carpets anywhere to dry wet clothes,warmer much warmer outside than in the house!

Bring your jumpers for the house we have been know to sit around in the evening with blankets on.Though this winter has not been so cold.

The main difference is you know you are going to get a hot summer here so it is easy to put up with a few cold months.Sue

Tooterelli

You don't know how lucky you are; at least you can go outside all summer. Here in Brisbane summertime is like being in a prison. You have to be inside between 0900 and 1700 because of the heat and humidity and then when it gets every so slightly cooler the sun goes down - and it's dark!

Amazulu

Why the hell do you live there if you can't handle the weather?