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So let’s have a thread for the summer lovers

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BlueBelle Fri 26-Jun-26 07:55:34

I m loving this beautiful week (probably the only week, knowing British summers )
To feel the warmth in my bones, to see the blue cloudless sky, to to see the flowers with the bees and butterflies hovering around, to hear the birds singing and the kids playing really brings me to life.
I do understand how for some who are not well or confined to barracks or living in city centres, it’s tough, but forgive me, we have sooo little summer most years, a week here or there then it’s all gone and back to the jumpers and coats and umbrellas again, the dreariness, the darkness.

This is not a post for the heat haters to jump on I know you are there and vocal, this is simply an alternative for those of us who come alive when the sun is heating up our bones
Bring it on šŸŒž

GrannyGravy13 Fri 26-Jun-26 08:00:22

I love the hot weather, I was a summer baby and I always feel happier when the sky is blue and the temperature is high šŸŒžšŸŒžšŸŒž

Abitbarmy Fri 26-Jun-26 08:09:15

I agree! It’s the warm evenings I love the most, being able to eat outside and sit there till bedtime, is blissful.

MartavTaurus Fri 26-Jun-26 08:27:30

Summer lovers. šŸ˜†

From the title, I thought you meant summer romances- I've a few of them I could talk about!

I like the summer, provided there's some air to go with it.

GrannyGravy13 Fri 26-Jun-26 08:29:27

Ooh naughty MartavTaurus summer lovers now that’s resurrected some memories…

Bridey Fri 26-Jun-26 08:31:01

I long for summer all through winter, cant bear the dark, grey cold days it makes me so unhappy, when the sun shines and its warm im a different person, love summer and wish it lasted longer!
All though at minute there is a monsoon and thunderstorm happening outside, hope it passes soon and the sun comes back.

Bridey Fri 26-Jun-26 08:32:11

Now summer loves, that would make an interesting thread!

BlueBelle Fri 26-Jun-26 09:19:45

Ohh summer lovers are they very different from winter lovers 🤣🤣well yes I guess they are, more accessible places, nothing like a sandy beach or a grassy moor, gosh what have you started MartovTorus
🤣

LaCrepescule Fri 26-Jun-26 09:29:34

I love the summer but I don’t love sweltering in 37c heat and feeling drained most of the day. The type
of weather we’ve been experiencing this week isn’t normal and almost certainly down to climate change.
I’m really looking forward to next week when the temperatures will be back to normal - 22-24c and still sunny. I’m in the south-east and getting the worst of it so perhaps you’re somewhere cooler. My 26 year old daughter lives London and says it’s horrible - would you like to stand on the tube for half an hour in this?
So when you say bring it on, think of those who are really suffering and the very scary prospect of things getting worse if the planet doesn’t switch to clean energy.

TerriBull Fri 26-Jun-26 09:33:42

I don't love winter, my birthday is in December, not a favourite month at all. Winter is grey, gloomy and just goes on far too long. Even a lovely Autumn can be spoiled by knowing winter will follow.

I do love summer but with a couple of caveats.....can I not get bitten, I applied my Jungle formula just a bit too late and can it be a little cooler, say mid 20s. I'm with you all on everything else, blue skies, birdsong, a life beyond being cloistered within 4 walls. Good for the soul.

Oreo Fri 26-Jun-26 09:37:58

GrannyGravy13

Ooh naughty MartavTaurus summer lovers now that’s resurrected some memories…

ā€˜Tell me more, tell me morešŸŽ¶

Oreo Fri 26-Jun-26 09:39:04

TerriBull

I don't love winter, my birthday is in December, not a favourite month at all. Winter is grey, gloomy and just goes on far too long. Even a lovely Autumn can be spoiled by knowing winter will follow.

I do love summer but with a couple of caveats.....can I not get bitten, I applied my Jungle formula just a bit too late and can it be a little cooler, say mid 20s. I'm with you all on everything else, blue skies, birdsong, a life beyond being cloistered within 4 walls. Good for the soul.

Same here.
Max temp about 24 please😃

MartavTaurus Fri 26-Jun-26 09:43:20

BlueBelle

Ohh summer lovers are they very different from winter lovers 🤣🤣well yes I guess they are, more accessible places, nothing like a sandy beach or a grassy moor, gosh what have you started MartovTorus
🤣

šŸ™ˆ ā¤ļø šŸ˜‚

Rosie51 Fri 26-Jun-26 09:43:31

This week hasn't been summer it's been hell. I suppose if you live where it's been cooler or near the coast it's different but in the cities and the southeast it's been unbearable. I like normal summers, love the lighter evenings but when there are health warnings being issued because of excess temperatures I don't think that's a cause for celebration. Anybody who works in a hospital will be able to tell you equipment is being affected by this abnormal heat and they're under extreme pressure.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/25/hospitals-nhs-england-critical-incidents-machines-it-fail-extreme-heat

The chiller cabinets in my local M&S have buckled under the strain and failed. Masses of food having to be dumped. The energy consumption trying to keep cool is horrendous and will do nothing to help with manmade climate change.

MawsRosie Fri 26-Jun-26 09:47:24

Uh oh!
We’ll haveSmartmike knocking on the door when he sees this šŸ¤£ā¤ļøšŸ¤£ā¤ļøšŸ¤£