I Never Can Appear To Hold With The Weather We Have
Here we go. The traditional rumours have got going as the Pollannas of the species begin to look speculatively to the sky and convey their total faith that we are about to have an Indian summer. You can see where it originated from, we had bbq conditions last week and now that the children are resuming school (to the relief of most mums and dads I suspect), the improvement is obvious.
The climate is behind so many of our little traditions at various times of the year. The Indian summer around September, one day in November the Daily Express will print a story that we are in for a brutal arctic winter (they were correct last year though, would you believe it?) In December we pay attention to the forecasts in the wishfulness of news of a white xmas. And then around March when the winter skies, heavy cloud, cold rain, frozen cars and freezing winds have got us all thoroughly fed up then we watch out for signs of spring, blossom forming on the trees, daffodils bursting up through the grass, early snowdrops and crocus flowering. And then when the magnolia flowers have fallen and the daffodils fade away, the football season finishes and we begin to think about the summer, where we are jetting away to for holidays, will there be hosepipe bans and how will the conditions affect the Test match series?
In our home the bbq cookbooks get their dusting off and the steel brush is dug out to give the grills a scrubbing around April. This year we purchased a new gas bbq to upgrade the old and too small kettle charcoal bbq which had reached the end of its life, so we will need to examine the gas, the connector and decide if we need a new bottle.
If we consider the weather for the summer on a range from the drought of 1976 to the monsoon of 2007, we can gauge the right bbq to use for those with the choice. The closer the pointer points towards 2007, the more likely you'd need to use a gas bbq as the reliability of sparking the fire will take the advantage over attempting to get charcoal going in inclement conditions.
Whatever the weather, the aroma of the bbq is the olfactory indicator of a summer, along with the grief to be expected with being an England football follower during an international championship year, the horror of using an airport to travel on holiday and the wonder at the tardiness of the airport procedures at the other end in comparison to the United Kingdom and the irritation of getting sunburnt in spite the best efforts to protect from it this time.
I don't know about you, but I forever seem to look forward 6 months and imagine the weather for that seadson as an ideal. I could be stood over a charcoal bbq with the heat of the furnace on my face and the sun on my back and suddenly find myself anticipating biting cold air and the crunch of snow under foot. The true situation will be driving wind, hard icy rain in the face and slippery ice under the shoes.
It's an odd thing, for some reason I can't just make the most of the conditions we have at the moment, I'm always anticipating that which is on the way.
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