We are now officially on the second day of meteorological summer so it is quite impressive that i have already been sun burnt twice and been stung on the shoulder by something stingy so the next 88 days are going to see me smelling strongly of a mix of after sun and insect bite cream.
As the solstice, or midsummer, comes on Day 21 of Summer, it always seems the seasons are a little out of whack that it arrives approximately quarter-summer and it would make more sense to have May, June and July as Summer so the longest day is in the middle of the season so someone back in the day messed up.
This Summer sees the World Cup in Russia when the World's top 32 footballing nations come together to kick a ball about for a couple of weeks to find out who is the best and it would not be in the spirit of the event to congratulate Germany on winning it so let's wait until July for that.
I'm off on holidays for a large chunk of August so will probably put up some pre-written nonsense to keep the blog going while i spend hours in the early mornings of 12th/13th/14th August gazing at the clouds blocking the view of the Perseid meteor shower.
I'm not much of a fan of summer, to hot and humid for us pasty skinned types who seem to have skin most favourable for things with stingers so 88 days to go before we can put it all behind us and dig out the jumpers and boots again although i have got the coolest pair of Steampunk sunglasses for this year, until i sit on them of course.
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