Come up here Retron, another damp windy day with drizzle at times, quite warm today though at 20 C
Can't wait to see 3 weeks of blue sky after this years dull, damp winter and spring and poor summer. I've experienced 25 C once this year, the rest nowhere near! Hardly any long sunny days
Rain is much heavier as I type 😧
Originally Posted by: Crepuscular Ray
I went on holiday to Edinburgh (and Aberdeen, and Inverness) one year back in the 90s - a lovely part of the world, and unlike here the sun (which was in abundance, typical) didn't have the "zap factor" that it has down here - it was mid-August, but felt like early September does here.
The main reason I'm staying put down here btw is because I inherited my childhood home - if I leave it, I'll never get it back and I know it'd gnaw at me. That and I hold out a (forlorn) hope of a classic easterly, 80s style, or even something I've never seen - snow falling and settling on Christmas Day. I just know if I were to leave here it'd be the one year it happens, and never again!
Still, there's always the option of a holiday up north. I've been to several colder places for a week or two in summer over the years... Scotland, northern England, Finland, Sweden, Alaska - and lovely though they are, they don't have that feeling of "home".
And back to the weather moans, it's still 24C outside and a "lovely" 27C indoors. I've had to put the portable a/c on again and it's something I'd hoped I wouldn't need now that autumn is just around the corner.