Summer Days Drifting Away

Those long, hot, sun filled, blue skied days of summer. How good are they. Everyone seems to be in a happier mood, there is optimism everywhere you look. People bound out of work to go to the beach (if they are lucky enough to live near one), the pub, a mates place for a bbq or some other activity. When you wake up it is light outside, there is a smile on your face and you are ready to face the day. When you leave work it is still light so you feel that your day is nowhere near over.

But like most good things, summer has to come to an end. Is the end of summer though that bad? Let’s look at the positive and negatives:

Positives

·         Long days, short nights

·         People in good spirits

·         Get a tan

·         Show off that beach body you have been working so hard for

·         Beer gardens (see previous article)

·         Summer holidays

I’m sure that there are more that I am missing out please feel free to let me know.

Negatives:

·         Sweat

·         Days can be too hot

·         Can’t sleep

·         Flies

·         Sun burn

·         Kids off school

Again I’m sure I have missed out loads more that you can think of but this is what I have come up with off the top of my head so deal with it.

As you head into Autumn and Winter you may feel a bit glum, but I think there is more than enough reason for optimism about these seasons. The sport season starts. Now for a lot of you, the response to that would be ‘who gives a shit’, but to the people that care it has been a long time coming. You get to snuggle up with your loved one on a cold, dark night. There is nothing I like more than snuggling with my girlfriend on the sofa watching rubbish on the tv. When I am in that position everything is right in the world. During the summer you can still snuggle up, of course you can, but be prepared to slip off each other within minutes and complain about how sweaty you each are. There is a high possibility that you can lie in bed and listen to the rain hit the window. Now I have not met one person that hasn’t loved that feeling. Lying in bed whilst it buckets down outside, it is awesome!!!

In the winter you can eat more. You cook much heartier meals like beef stew or something like that. You don’t want to do that in the summer, who wants to stand over a hot stove in the summer then eat boiling food? Not I, I can tell you that much. That’s different in the winter. Hot food is so welcomed, you are not going to work up a sweat just smelling it.

Another reason to be positive is this. It is much easier to warm up than it is to cool down. If your house is roasting in the summer and there is no breeze coming through it then there is nothing you can do. If it’s freezing outside or in the house you can wrap up nice and warm and put the heating on. It is so relaxing sitting in a nice warm house whilst the mercury hovers very low outside. If you have a heavy night on a Friday/Saturday and don’t feel like going out, during winter it doesn’t matter. The weather is normally shit outside anyway so you have an excuse. During the summer you feel that you are wasting your day, sitting in your house not doing anything whilst it is picture perfect blue skies outside, but this is all forgiven in winter. The dark grey clouds, the hideous temperature and the lure of the warm sofa with duvet are all you need. So as the Southern hemisphere summer draws to a close and the northern hemisphere summer is yet to happen don’t despair peeps. That is the thought for today, tune in tomorrow for something else. Laters