It's British summer time......?

It's not supposed to be summer time yet. That's in June, July and August.
However, I went for a walk yesterday and came back with a headache, which I only do if there's too much sun. Same today. Only spring flowers out, though.

What a lovely warm day in the Chilterns today. And the bonus of light evenings.

My spirits soar as this time of year and go into decline in November.

Especially if it's a darn sight warmer than here!
Frostbite imminent

Tea and bums make for a great afternoon

Were your bums naked in the sunshine? 9The n and m are very close together on the keyboard)

It's been warm enough to have our tea/bums outside this afternoon and my head is sun burnt (note - wear a hat from now on)

Ooops pompa!

oops, better change that asap.

Pompa, where you live is on your profile!

As far away from the SW as you can get. Bright and dry atm, rain forecast tonight, but I won't hold my breath.

Crikey pompa, definitely not the South West England then!
Just starting to spot with rain here, very happy to swop with you

Weather here (sorry LL I can't say where) has been warm (ish) and dry for a while now. if it does not rain tonight, I will be getting he sprinkler out for my newly sown grass.

What good weather pompa?

Stuck inside- and desperate to get into the garden Pompa- rain and snow, windy and cold

Please bring back winter !. I'm knackered, all this good weather has me out in the garden all day working.

I remember 1976 as well, we sweltered all through that long hot summer, went on holiday in September, and the weather broke in the middle of our week away.

I think you're right Ana-remember my daughter sitting up in her pram that year as I walked for miles in the baking sun!! It was also the summer when I choked myself very badly trying to have a sneaky square of chocolate without her seeing me! I ended up doubled over the pram handle whooping for breath.

Long heatwave was 1976, I was a student midwife pedalling around my pregnant mums in unbearable heat, on an old bone-shaker a la 'Meet the Midwife'!
I remember fields being completely brown with all the grass burned off by the heat.

Plain grey and chilly here, looking like rain's imminent.
Hyacinths and daffodils well flattened by the winds, I've cut a big bunch for indoors but would have preferred to see them in the garden.
No signs of slugs and snails yet, so I suppose that's a bonus!

Sparrowhawk has frightened all the birds away, it's sitting on the trellis as I write this. Beautiful but deadly bird, very supercilious pose.

anno, I'm sure the long heatwave was 1976!

Well, we`ve got summer today, but how long for is anybody`s guess! It`s beautifully warm and sunny, what a contrast to the last few days of cold and high winds.

Also, I was putting the finishing touches to the shawls I had crocheted for my bridesmaids. My wedding was in two weeks on 15th April 1982. I was having a lovely day, snuggled up beside the fire, watching the snow falling, and hoping that the weather for my wedding would be better.(It was! Beautiful day, rather windy and cool, the shawls were a good idea).

I remember standing at a bus stop, shivering in the snow, waiting to go away for a long weekend in Derbyshire in the 1970's. It was snowing. When I got to Derbyshire, it was a lovely but cold day.

June 1975 is imprinted in my memory because DS2 was in hospital in Birmingham when the city centre was brought to a standstill by snow. At the end of the week the long heatwave began.

Not unique. I distinctly remember that it was snowing when my mother brought my baby brother home from hospital in April 1950. He was so wrapped up he was invisible. Met office on weather, April 1950

( Monthly reports from January 1884 to December 1994 here )