Yet another disappointing "summer" in the UK comes to a close...
Sep 4th 2009, 2:59 pm
#286
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Re: Yet another disappointing "summer" in the UK comes to a close...
If you spent your entire Easter hols chasing gangs of Gypsies in their big powerful cars around Cornwall you'd be just as baked.
Or maybe it was just the summer of '76.
Sep 4th 2009, 5:31 pm
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Re: Yet another disappointing "summer" in the UK comes to a close...
These were the books, if I recall, where children were brown ('like berries') due to the time they spent their summers out of doors. Maybe they were not cosseted 'indoors' the whole time.
If you spent your entire Easter hols chasing gangs of Gypsies in their big powerful cars around Cornwall you'd be just as baked.
Or maybe it was just the summer of '76.
If you spent your entire Easter hols chasing gangs of Gypsies in their big powerful cars around Cornwall you'd be just as baked.
Or maybe it was just the summer of '76.
76 i feel will enter folk lore as what a summer can be..
Sep 4th 2009, 10:39 pm
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Re: Yet another disappointing "summer" in the UK comes to a close...
. Will always remember the sun baked ground and how hard it was to pitch our tents when camping with my mates across the fields. A great summer that was 
Sep 4th 2009, 10:56 pm
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Re: Yet another disappointing "summer" in the UK comes to a close...
Good to see the senior members reminising...I was born 76 so missed out on those heady days.
Sep 4th 2009, 11:24 pm
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Sep 4th 2009, 11:30 pm
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Re: Yet another disappointing "summer" in the UK comes to a close...
Depending on what type of weather you prefer (let's face it, lots like cold and wet), it's very very important. Absolutely nothing wrong with the UK in my book but my body just couldn't cope with the long dark, dank, grey winters. I was always ill with extremely severe migraines and aches and pains. Moving here has as near as dammit cured the migraines and the much shorter bright winters are a joy to live through. Climate is a very good reason for moving but shouldn't be the be all and end all, there are too many other variables involved.
Sep 4th 2009, 11:31 pm
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Re: Yet another disappointing "summer" in the UK comes to a close...
Of course you can always tell folk that you were born in the last year there was a summer in the UK. Most folk older than five should be able to have a fair stab at the year you mean.
Sep 4th 2009, 11:48 pm
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Sep 5th 2009, 12:14 am
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Re: Yet another disappointing "summer" in the UK comes to a close...
Sep 5th 2009, 4:41 am
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Re: Yet another disappointing "summer" in the UK comes to a close...
But it was a fab summer nevertheless.
I think i remember the govn panicking and saying the stand pipes had to come out. Jeez, bloody typical, abit of sun and they shit themselves lol.
Sep 5th 2009, 4:46 am
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Re: Yet another disappointing "summer" in the UK comes to a close...
And 2004 was also "good" ...that's if we overlook the fact that the water pressure around here dropped so low that the water tank in the loft wouldn't begin to refill until the early hours of the morning. That was a very sweaty year. 
Sep 5th 2009, 5:29 am
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Re: Yet another disappointing "summer" in the UK comes to a close...
I suppose we may have taken the summer for granted and now the last 3 summers have been a wash out and it gives us good reason to complain..
Sep 5th 2009, 4:00 pm
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Re: Yet another disappointing "summer" in the UK comes to a close...
I remember 1989. I was pregnant and it was such a long long hot summer. Not too good when your preggers.
But it was a fab summer nevertheless.
I think i remember the govn panicking and saying the stand pipes had to come out. Jeez, bloody typical, abit of sun and they shit themselves lol.
But it was a fab summer nevertheless.
I think i remember the govn panicking and saying the stand pipes had to come out. Jeez, bloody typical, abit of sun and they shit themselves lol.
