Summertime whites
Readers from abroad might not be aware that England has been experiencing freak weather conditions for the past four days:
- It’s not snowing
- It’s not even raining
- The sky is full of this pale yellow disc causing double-digit temperatures
In short, it looks like summer might be upon us. It’s not possible to be definitive because, like a Big Yellow Taxi, summer can only be properly diagnosed once it’s gone—so after the mists of June, the squalls of July and the fogs of August we might look back at early May and realise that, yes, that was the summer.
It certainly has all the hallmarks:
- English people stop moaning about the rain and moan about the heat
- The air smells of barbeque charcoal and burning meat
- White Englishmen walk around in public with no shirt on
The last sign is something to be deplored. White English men are chiefly characterised by a concave chest and skin so translucent that, if you hold them up to the light, you can actually see intestines peristalsing fish and chips around.
Every schoolboy knows that on two occasions this dazzling translucence has saved our scepter’d isle: the Spanish Armada and Luftwaffe were repelled by every Englishman baring his chest simultaneously at the command of Queen Elizabeth and Winston Churchill respectively, thereby blinding the enemy captains and pilots and forcing a retreat.
Thereby, I make a plea at this time that may be summer: gentlemen, keep your shirts on. The balmy twenty degrees may compel you to bare your lily white pigeon-chests in a courtship ritual, but your country needs you to avoid a tan.
Thank you.
3 Responses to “ Summertime whites ”
Scotland has been experiencing the same freak weather conditions for the past four days too 
Same in Holland, and I can definitely confirm that the big yellow disk is in fact the legendary Sun.
I saw ithe Sun a few times in the warmer regions of the US where the natives were kind enough to identify and explain it.
The one we’re currently seeing in the sky looks the same to me. (Unless there’s two of them, but the legends insist there’s only one.)
The window tells me it’s sunny outside but the weather widget on my dashboard tells me it’s raining. Classic British summer.
At least this may confuse the spontaneous sunbathers that are out every day (do these people not have jobs to go to?)