Falming June indeed

I remember that Summer of 76 I was pregnant with my son and after 6 wks of heatwave weather when I literally sat in the shower to cool down my son was born July 13th and I stood at the hospital ward window holding him in the early hours watching the lightening and we had an almighty thunderstorm.

Going back to the summer of 1976, how well we remember it. It was our first holiday without the children - they had reached the age where they no longer wanted to join us, and other arrangements were made for them. We hitched our caravan and just drove as we wanted, the weather was perfect, the grass was scorched to sand colour and the evenings a dream, and although we stopped at various sites we both remember with pleasure the one we stayed at in the middle of an apple orchard, the only caravan there, and the chickens would come pecking at the door in the early hours.Simple pleasures to dream about on a chilly June day.

I've just lit the woodburner

The dogs are curled up on the hearthrug and I'm hugging a mug of hot chocolate.

Where's summer?

That's a relief, I thought it was just me. I've never had the heating on in June before.

OH just put the heating on he's freezing but it will go off when he goes out bowling later with his thermals under his bowling clothes I must be made of sterner stuff as I'm not feeling it today. Its still miserable with showers though no sun for a couple of days..

Not so warm in Northumberland, and quite breezy to boot. No sunshine today, it's overcast. DH came home from Glasgow yesterday and couldn't believe the difference! Every year I hope for another long hot summer, and every year I'm disappointed. ?

It rained so hard in sunny Hertfordshire last week that our garage flooded.
With thanks to Hertfordshire Highways who have budget cuts so can't clean the drains (that are blocked with gravel) thus allowing a river of water to sweep down the hill and into our drive.
Just bought sandbags after living here 16 years!

Yesterday I had the heating on from lunch to bedtime. At least today it is not so cold. It has not rained yet but it is so dull and miserable it will happen anytime soon.

'Summer' in the North of England will arrive on the day I fly to Spain and it will end on the day I arrive back, and then my neighbours will all rush out to tell me we had a heatwave here last week

..Happens every time

Just went out and got caught in a 20 minute "shower". It was very heavy. Still cold.
My DH has been happily demolishing a shed and has been stopped by the rain

Another one with lovely sunshine though not very warm. Woke up with terrible hay fever and I don't usually suffer. Sheets were on the line by 10 am, they will be dry soon. We put lawn sand down and will now need to water it in, I can't believe it as it has been a bog until last week but no rain forecast. Sorry for those with your heating on but it is our turn for the sun???

It is now throwing it down so much so the flat roof of the lobby from the kitchen to outside door is leaking.

The only good thing about the weather is that it is bringing the pollen count down. I have a free day today and it looks too miserable to go to allotment so might just stay in and knit. What do other people do when they are lonely ?

Cold and miserable in our Swiss mountains too- had really strong storms last few days. No rain today- but cold!

goose1964 it almost always is an expletive in this country, but there is a very beautiful painting by Sir Frederick Leighton called "Flaming June" and I'm sure when he painted it he wasn't being rude to the model! I hope he wasn't anyway.

Good Lord, merlot your DH is made of sterner stuff than me! There'll be white horses on Ladybower today - I'd never get a line out in this wind and it's so cold I wouldn't be able to tie the flies on! It was, if anything worse than this here yesterday and DGS nagged and nagged until we went down to the park to play football!! He abandoned his hoody and ran around in shorts and a teeshirt while DH and I were huddled up to the nines in fleeces and sweaters chasing after the ball in the wind! If it doesn't warm up tommorrow the heating will have to go on as my friend is coming to lunch and she has been very ill all year.

I've always thought that flaming in flaming June was a mild expletive rather than a description of the weather

It's awful here in East Anglia. DH has insisted on going fishing - done up like Nanook of the North!

The chickens are huddling in their 'Staff Room' which is a cavern they hollowed out two years ago beneath a large Lonicera hedge. It serves to keep them cool in scorching hot weather and cosy and dry on days like these......Clever chooks!

Chilly and wet here too. On the plus side I have a new pastime in the damp and soggy garden. Relocating snails, it has been very uplifting! (Yes, I know I should get out more!).

I've been out delivering magazines this morning and now feel hot hot hot.... .
It has been lovely and warm here this last few days.
(south Devon).. at long last after a cold spring.

We are in Cornwall this week and have had 3 days of beautiful sunshine. Bit cloudy today but no rain forcast. At home it has been almost continuous rain. We married in July '76 , a smear like that would be great. Although we would then have people complaining about it being too hot !

juliette I remember that summer [wistful]

juliette that is exactly what happened to us. We took the children caravanning in Newquay. It has always stayed in my mind for the same reason.

Too cold and windy for golf!! in June!!! Cinema then today I think.

On the last day of May 1976 we had a very hard frost in this area, it killed all the bedding plants and a lot more beside.
We went on holiday at the end of June and had a rainy week in a caravan. As we drove home from Wales the sun came out and it stayed out for the rest of the summer, I don't think it rained again until September.
Am hopeful that exactly forty years on, that wonderful summer will be replicated but perhaps not until July.

#nevergiveuphope ?????????