Summer has really arrived when..........

The trees are fully in leaf, roses and poppies start to bloom and, if you are lucky, you hear a cuckoo.

I'm lucky. Been hearing cuckoos for ages! Actually, they're quiet again now so I guess the eggs are laid.

Summer is when the overnight minimum temperature of 6.4°C (last night) has risen nearly three degrees by eight o'clock.

And the sun is shining

Summer is when house martins nest under the eaves of my house.

We heard a cuckoo last weekend - the first time I have heard one in years.
Didn't they discover recently, by putting tracking devices on some, that their visits from Africa can be very short. Like the old joke about "eats, shoots and leaves"

Swallows are swooping all around, and house-martins are nesting in the barn opposite. A blackbird sat on the armrest of my garden seat yesterday! He occasionally jumped down to take a fly or two from the wee pond, but then came back up to me. Had a bit of a one-sided conversation with him, but he went away knowing that I thought he was a 'very bonny bird'! Cooler today, so far. The outlook is good, though.

I have heard quite a few cuckoos in the forests - they really do say the word, don't they?
Next month we will have an influx of cars from Belgium and The Netherlands, usually travelling very, very, slowly round the mountain roads.
It was very hot here yesterday, and at 10 pm. I lost the signal on my TV. When I opened the curtains I found we were having a really good thunderstorm, which I enjoyed. I like my weather to be OTT!

I can leave my knickers off.

But susie, what if you get knocked down by a bus!

I know when summer is here, nose and eyes itch , non stop sneezing and a sore red nose . But it only lasts a few weeks so roll on July

Summer?? bitterley cold yesterday ...needed hat, scarf and gloves torrential rain last night ...miserable, murky moist day today!! so yes ...summer has come!

I only do it at home

You put away the summer clothes you wore last week and find your thick socks and cardigans - wich is what I have done today!

I have room in my little flat for only one season's clothes, so I have to make a judgement before I flatten all my winter clothes in vacuum bags and put them on top of my wardrobe.

I am with ariadne on this! And DH's sneezing is less likely to be hayfever than a cold.

It is still warm here,but raining heavily. Damn - I was planning to have a very long, steep walk but the paths would not be safe at the moment.

Summer is when the barbecue is placed strategically under the garage door to keep off the rain which will bounce down once the food is placed on it to cook.

susiecb is your claim really true? - for me it begins when I leave my socks off. This has happened this year but now they are on again!

Halfway down A3 and the sun comes out! I haven't packed all the summer trousers!!! But DH has forgotten his "pyjamas" (lounging gear) so we stopped off at Sainsburys and I managed to find black cropped trousers and PJs with 25% off. Result!

Dinner at Brasserie Blanc, lovely; off to Devon tomorrow. DGS is in a Jubilee parade. Who knows what the weather will bring? Nightcap now. Night night all!

I've been meaning to put a pair on all day gangy.

Honestly, how lazy can I get!

Night night. I'm off too!

I must pack tomorrow!

Summer is when the outside temperature is 5°C when you get up but it doesn't feel cold in the house because the sun is pouring in through the windows

That is so true, Bags! Unfortunately, a grey day here in Hampshire (with DS) and I guessing will persist all the way down to Devon this morning!

Summer is today when despite weather here in Scotland we are all going to light a fire on the beach and make lunch. DGD's and I very excited, other adults more dubious.