Hot and Bothered
Hi blogies and blogettes, It's hot! now to those of you that do not live on this tiny island, hot may be normal but we are not that used to it here. As we touched on the mess we are making of our planet recently, I will describe what happens here in the UK.
When I was younger we had proper winters, you know freezing cold, snow, ice miserable, foggy and lots of rain, then we had summers which were quite warm 70 or 80 degrees (I think that its 28 in centigrade - but I'm old so excuse the farenheit)but you did used to get the different season in the autumn in Sept leaves fall off the trees then by Oct/ Nov it got cold,Dec/Jan/Feb Freezing (I used to make lots of snowmen in the winter - my youngest hadn't seen snow till he was 10 - I remember when I was little my mum's god-daughter coming over from California and saying she had never seen snow, and thinking how weird,I thought everyone had seen snow - then thirty years later I never thought the same thing would happen here with my own kids!) By May it would warm up, till we had a summer in June, July & August.
Now, however we seem to have one long period of grey skies which look like they are going to rain but don't that often and when they do it causes flooding, we have a few really cold days which then halt everything and we have 8 hour queues on road (I kid you not it snowed at 3.30 p.m. and by 5 p.m. with only 2inches of snow it took me 51/2 hours to travel the 6 miles to pick my son up from school arriving there at 10.30 p.m. - we got home after midnight!) when it does snow they can't seem to grit the roads properly or the trains can't run, this is then followed by more grey skies and a few bursts of drizzle.
Then wham all of a sudden like this week the temperature rockets and yesterday we say record heat of 97 degrees (36)it was the hottest day in the UK since 1911. Da Essex girl will tell you, you usually have to get a boat, plane, or train to leave our island to find that sort of heat! Although I know with the exception of the Emerald Isle, all of you have to suffer much higher temperatures where you are in the world. However the heat here is not the same as abroad but is always muggy and humid, and of course us Brits are not acclimatised to hot weather we have 2 or 3 weeks a year where we run out and lay in the sun, get lobstered, peel and then back to work - Noel Coward was spot on Mad Dogs and Englishmen stay out in the mid-day sun,we are the only nutters on the beaches in the middle of the day!)
To add to this we can't use hoses as we have a drought order on, although yesterday I was close to standing in the garden and hosing us all down! it doesn't help either that I live in a big city which is now starting to suffer from smog and heat hazes due to the heat and traffic, asthma cases are on the rise especially in kids here.
I suppose I shouldn't really moan as in a couple of weeks I am off to Europe and I have been praying for sun as last year I think we had one of the wettest summers -Italy and France had severe flooding, we came back soggy, rusty and with webbed feet it was so wet - again in saying that the year before the heatwave in Europe killed hundreds, we travelled over the top of the Alps and it was 44 degrees at the top and Mont Blanc was one of the few mountains with snow on - another example of what a mess we are making of our planet.
I don't know if the Kyoto Agreement was the best or right one, but in a few years we are going to rue that our leaders didn't really try to save what we have, I wonder what we are leaving to our future generations if it has changed so much in my life time I wonder what will be left for our kids and grandkids, we have taken so much for granted so long, Europe are way ahead even on recycling and respecting the lack of water compared to the UK> But wherever we are in the world I think (and I admit I have probably been guilty in the past of neglecting them) we need to be looking around at our resources and cherishing them for one day at this rate they will be extinct as the dinosaurs and who knows maybe us with it!.
Sorry had a rattle on, it comes of being hot and bothered!! wherever you are have a great weekend!
Ciao Blogies and Blogettes
When I was younger we had proper winters, you know freezing cold, snow, ice miserable, foggy and lots of rain, then we had summers which were quite warm 70 or 80 degrees (I think that its 28 in centigrade - but I'm old so excuse the farenheit)but you did used to get the different season in the autumn in Sept leaves fall off the trees then by Oct/ Nov it got cold,Dec/Jan/Feb Freezing (I used to make lots of snowmen in the winter - my youngest hadn't seen snow till he was 10 - I remember when I was little my mum's god-daughter coming over from California and saying she had never seen snow, and thinking how weird,I thought everyone had seen snow - then thirty years later I never thought the same thing would happen here with my own kids!) By May it would warm up, till we had a summer in June, July & August.
Now, however we seem to have one long period of grey skies which look like they are going to rain but don't that often and when they do it causes flooding, we have a few really cold days which then halt everything and we have 8 hour queues on road (I kid you not it snowed at 3.30 p.m. and by 5 p.m. with only 2inches of snow it took me 51/2 hours to travel the 6 miles to pick my son up from school arriving there at 10.30 p.m. - we got home after midnight!) when it does snow they can't seem to grit the roads properly or the trains can't run, this is then followed by more grey skies and a few bursts of drizzle.
Then wham all of a sudden like this week the temperature rockets and yesterday we say record heat of 97 degrees (36)it was the hottest day in the UK since 1911. Da Essex girl will tell you, you usually have to get a boat, plane, or train to leave our island to find that sort of heat! Although I know with the exception of the Emerald Isle, all of you have to suffer much higher temperatures where you are in the world. However the heat here is not the same as abroad but is always muggy and humid, and of course us Brits are not acclimatised to hot weather we have 2 or 3 weeks a year where we run out and lay in the sun, get lobstered, peel and then back to work - Noel Coward was spot on Mad Dogs and Englishmen stay out in the mid-day sun,we are the only nutters on the beaches in the middle of the day!)
To add to this we can't use hoses as we have a drought order on, although yesterday I was close to standing in the garden and hosing us all down! it doesn't help either that I live in a big city which is now starting to suffer from smog and heat hazes due to the heat and traffic, asthma cases are on the rise especially in kids here.
I suppose I shouldn't really moan as in a couple of weeks I am off to Europe and I have been praying for sun as last year I think we had one of the wettest summers -Italy and France had severe flooding, we came back soggy, rusty and with webbed feet it was so wet - again in saying that the year before the heatwave in Europe killed hundreds, we travelled over the top of the Alps and it was 44 degrees at the top and Mont Blanc was one of the few mountains with snow on - another example of what a mess we are making of our planet.
I don't know if the Kyoto Agreement was the best or right one, but in a few years we are going to rue that our leaders didn't really try to save what we have, I wonder what we are leaving to our future generations if it has changed so much in my life time I wonder what will be left for our kids and grandkids, we have taken so much for granted so long, Europe are way ahead even on recycling and respecting the lack of water compared to the UK> But wherever we are in the world I think (and I admit I have probably been guilty in the past of neglecting them) we need to be looking around at our resources and cherishing them for one day at this rate they will be extinct as the dinosaurs and who knows maybe us with it!.
Sorry had a rattle on, it comes of being hot and bothered!! wherever you are have a great weekend!
Ciao Blogies and Blogettes
posted by Leolady at
8:43 AM
2 Comments:
I don't do white with my hips, but I am hot bothered and boiling, it's grey here but stiffling!! - at least on holiday I can run or waddle around with my wobbly bits on show as no one knows me and FG is used to the wobbly bits (she has a strong stomach!!) Afkas are you off to somewhere hotter? I hope you get the blue skies and less humidity - as you say we're typical English, hate the cold and wet but can't cope with the heat!! have a good weekend - D xxx
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Leolady, at 4:25 PM
Sooo agree. we're having the earliest coldest winter on record. It's sunny today but no warmth - even though its lunch time I can't go out and prune the roses (should have done it weeks ago, too bad about the day job eh?)without losing fingers to frostbite. Peolpe think of Australia was warm , but my little tail end island gets winds straight out of Antartica. Brr. But that not what it was like when I was a kid. Our weather's going pear shaped, and I want my kids to have more than a fifth of the planet to live on.
Anyway, keep up the great blogging. I love finding a new one and having all those back blogs to explore - like opening a new book.
Ciaou
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Food Kitty, at 3:24 AM
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