I Can’t Ever Seem To Hold With The Weather We Are Having At Any Given Time But Always Look To What Might Be On The Way Before Long

Here we go. The traditional gossip have started as the Pollannas of the parish begin to look speculatively to the clouds and state their complete conviction that we are expecting an Indian summer. You can see where it came from, we had bbq conditions last week and now that the kids are returning to school (to the relief of most mums and dads I suspect), the upswing is obvious.

The weather is reason for so many of our little habits at different times of the year. The Indian summer around September, at some point in November the Daily Express will splash a headline that we are in for a monstrous arctic winter (they were spot on last year though, would you believe it?) In December we pay attention to the forecasts in the wishfulness of news of a white xmas. And then about March when the winter skies, low cloud, cold rain, frozen cars and freezing winds have got everybody thoroughly miserable then we watch for evidence of spring, blossom forming on the trees, bluebells sprouting up through the soil, early snowdrops and crocus coming out. And then when the magnolia flowers have dropped and the daffodils fade away, the rugby season ends and we start to chat about the summer, where we are going for holidays, will there be hosepipe bans and how will the climate behave towards the Test match series?

In our place the bbq recipes get their dusting off and the steel brush is resurrected to give the grills a scrubbing around April. This year we got a new gas bbq to change the old and too small kettle charcoal bbq which had arrived at the end of its life, so we will have to examine the gas, the connector and decide if we need a new bottle.

If we think of the conditions for the summer on a scale from the drought of 1976 to the deluge of 2007, we can gauge the right bbq to employ for those with the option. The nearer the needle points towards 2007, the more likely you’d need to use a gas bbq as the reliability of igniting the fire will have the advantage over trying to get charcoal going in inclement conditions.

Whatever the weather, the perfume of the bbq is the olfactory indicator of a summer, along with the heartbreak that go with with being an England football fan during an international championship year, the horror of using an airport to fly on holiday and the incredulity at the tardiness of the airport procedures at the other end in comparison to the United Kingdom and the annoyance of getting sunburnt despite our best efforts to avoid it this time.

I don’t know about other people, but I forever seem to look forward 6 months and imagine the weather for that time as an ideal. I could be stood over a charcoal bbq with the heat of the fire on my face and the sun on my back and all of a sudden find myself anticipating biting cold air and the crunch of snow under foot. The true situation will be driving wind, hard freezing rain in the face and slippery ice under the shoes.

It’s an odd thing, for some reason I can’t just make the most of the weather we have at the present, I’m always anticipating that which is coming.

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