Yet another disappointing "summer" in the UK comes to a close...
Sep 13th 2009, 8:18 am
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Re: Yet another disappointing "summer" in the UK comes to a close...
Sep 13th 2009, 8:10 pm
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Re: Yet another disappointing "summer" in the UK comes to a close...
It's not really green all year around in the UK. Although the grass tends to stay green the woods can look a bit brown at the end of autumn and through winter.
For example
http://www.forest-cottages.co.uk/ima...nter-woods.jpg
In my first winter here it was noticeable how alive everything looked through the winter. I know someone's going to say that it looks lovely in the snow (or the sunshine) but to be honest we didn't get that much snow in London and the local snow gums are very pretty in the snow as well.
For example
http://www.forest-cottages.co.uk/ima...nter-woods.jpg
In my first winter here it was noticeable how alive everything looked through the winter. I know someone's going to say that it looks lovely in the snow (or the sunshine) but to be honest we didn't get that much snow in London and the local snow gums are very pretty in the snow as well.
Yes the grass stays green through winter and so do the evergreen trees and shrubs (obviously), but the rest of landscape looks fairly bleak to be honest.
Snow is great for a while and the landscape looks really pretty when it falls, but after that I'd prefer to return to warmth.
Sep 14th 2009, 1:51 am
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Re: Yet another disappointing "summer" in the UK comes to a close...
I'm with you mate. I'm a kiwi and I think the weather (in the Southeast) is great. I cycle a lot and have a nice tan from the sunshine we have had the last few months. One snow fall in 18 years is quite exciting and only lasts a day or two. So the leaves fall off the trees in autumn. Big deal.
If do concede that certain parts of the UK (in the West and parts of Scotland) have had particularly wet weather this summer so I can see how it might get you down, but to extrapolate that to the whole country is ridiculous. I have some friends in 'the North' who say they have had an exceptionally sunny summer this year.
If do concede that certain parts of the UK (in the West and parts of Scotland) have had particularly wet weather this summer so I can see how it might get you down, but to extrapolate that to the whole country is ridiculous. I have some friends in 'the North' who say they have had an exceptionally sunny summer this year.
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Sep 14th 2009, 4:43 am
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I didn't want this to be a UKvsanything post - just an amusing observation straight and simple.
I noticed that that my old UK boss in his 50s and bald, was unlined, less craggy, and maybe without skin cancer(!), no guarantee, but he looked like a baby shiny and glossy. A curious look.
An Irish woman once told me that men tend to improve with age, even though if that is lined skin...
I'm sure the women would have different opinions about themselves.
Of course, skin like prunes and missing noses etc, and growths don't look too good. That's the extreme and I've seen that in orchardists who have spent their whole lives outside, and are 70 odd now. I'm glad I work inside most of the time, and came here in my 30s - and in a time when awareness was in place - gives me a headstart.
I've said this before - the current crop of people you see now in their 60s did not have the benefits of the campaigns in the 80s nor used skin protection. From an scientific viewpoint, it will be interesting to see how careful people born in 1980 will look when they get to their 60s.
I noticed that that my old UK boss in his 50s and bald, was unlined, less craggy, and maybe without skin cancer(!), no guarantee, but he looked like a baby shiny and glossy. A curious look.
An Irish woman once told me that men tend to improve with age, even though if that is lined skin...
I'm sure the women would have different opinions about themselves.
Of course, skin like prunes and missing noses etc, and growths don't look too good. That's the extreme and I've seen that in orchardists who have spent their whole lives outside, and are 70 odd now. I'm glad I work inside most of the time, and came here in my 30s - and in a time when awareness was in place - gives me a headstart.
I've said this before - the current crop of people you see now in their 60s did not have the benefits of the campaigns in the 80s nor used skin protection. From an scientific viewpoint, it will be interesting to see how careful people born in 1980 will look when they get to their 60s.
It should be understood that it is suggested that the sun screens used are not so great for the skin,even linked to having cancer causing agents.
A number of people of all ages look fine with tans there again depending on skin type.
Best try not to burn which means limited exposure to the sun at the commencement of summer....and a bit of tan protects from burning anyway.
Surely sitting in an office all day would have been easier in Britain to do?
Perhaps in part it was to keep the office wallahs content,in that how lucky are we shut up indoors out of the sun..instead of being out and about swimming,boating,surfing,bushwalking.....
Cold weather can also be bad for the skin...lots of people look none the good for wear in Europe also.
Sep 14th 2009, 10:19 pm
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Sep 15th 2009, 1:25 am
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Re: Yet another disappointing "summer" in the UK comes to a close...
I'm an Australian who has lived in the UK for nearly 6 years now, and for the life of me I genuinely, honestly cannot understand why people complain about the weather so much over here. 
The British climate is fantastic! Winters are perfectly bearable (only a little worse than the ones I used to get in Tassie) and the summers are gloriously mild. It doesn't rain nearly as much as people claim it does, and the entire country is beautifully green all year round. What's not to like?
The British climate is fantastic! Winters are perfectly bearable (only a little worse than the ones I used to get in Tassie) and the summers are gloriously mild. It doesn't rain nearly as much as people claim it does, and the entire country is beautifully green all year round. What's not to like?
It is beautifully green because it does rain a lot. If it didn't, it wouldn't be green now would it
Sep 15th 2009, 1:36 am
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Re: Yet another disappointing "summer" in the UK comes to a close...
You don't understand because you are different to those people who don't like it. I loved the British spring/summer/autumn (however short they were) but physically couldn't handle the long drawn out damp, dreary British winter. That may not be how it is for some people but it was for me. I don't like the cold and for me, it was bone numbing cold even if the temperature gauge read 15 degrees.
It is beautifully green because it does rain a lot. If it didn't, it wouldn't be green now would it
It is beautifully green because it does rain a lot. If it didn't, it wouldn't be green now would it
Possibly not all of them but they will be moaning about their own
Sep 15th 2009, 9:47 am
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Sep 15th 2009, 6:29 pm
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I agree with MP above. The winters are just too long and drawn out and never seem to end.
When Spring arrives you think it will warm up quite fast, but it doesn't. It takes ages and only in June does it really start getting warm.
Then if the summer for that year is miserable, which it has been for the last three years, you are then heading straight back into autumn and then winter, without having felt you've had a 'good decent' summer.
That was the whole reason for this thread!
I do enjoy enjoy the snow and the change of seasons, but winter does tend to drag on far too long.
When Spring arrives you think it will warm up quite fast, but it doesn't. It takes ages and only in June does it really start getting warm.
Then if the summer for that year is miserable, which it has been for the last three years, you are then heading straight back into autumn and then winter, without having felt you've had a 'good decent' summer.
That was the whole reason for this thread!
I do enjoy enjoy the snow and the change of seasons, but winter does tend to drag on far too long.
Sep 16th 2009, 3:04 am
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Britons are if anything even rather subdued when it comes to moaning,almost too polite at times. Folk should take a look across the channel and will perhaps begin to understand what real complaining is about.
Sep 16th 2009, 3:14 am
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Actually they do if brought to their attention.Many Australians are of the impression that life on the British Isles must be a miserable state of affairs,in part due to the climate of constant rain,frigid temperatures and dark gloomy skies.
When living in France not a few folk there thought London as wet and foggy,of the pea soup variety.
When living in France not a few folk there thought London as wet and foggy,of the pea soup variety.
Sep 16th 2009, 3:22 am
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Indeed yes.Generally folk considered better looking in the South of Europe,with their sun kissed skins with less attire required,to which a lot of the Northeners want to experience a bit of. Not only good for health but does wonders for the feeling of wellbeing.