Surprise Sunday Sunshine
Alas! English weather isn’t as pants as we all thought! *cough* OK, it isn’t as bad as I thought. *cough* OK, OK, it’s bad, but there are the odd exceptions. Today, and the previous two days being such exceptions. Why?
We’ve had sunshine! SUN! Suitably warm/mildly hot temperatures! Why… I’m almost tempted to think summer has arrived late! Well, it hasn’t because now it’s all going back to the best of British tomorrow. (Ie, pants.) I say summer has come late because well, last year we all got flooded and this year although the rain fall was much less, the hours of sunshine didn’t improve.
Two years without a real summer! It’s driving this girl crazy…
Any who, enough complaining you English arse. Yes, so woot sun for the weekend. Of course, I only managed to enjoy it (for part of) today, due to the annoyance that is work. Never mind.
So whilst I was working home from work today (keeping in mind today was my day off) a sudden flash of thunder and lightning struck! Oh, wait… no, that was just my brain cranking round some old childhood memories…
You see, whilst it was very sunny and the sky was pure blue (with no clouds in sight) there was a slight chilliness to the temperature. I haven’t experienced those three variables together like that since I was a wee lad. *cough* I mean wee lass…
Many many moons ago yours truly lived in a predominantly Christian village. I know how it sounds, but it’s what I know as my childhood - seems perfectly normal! Any who, due to this religious factor most, if not all residents of this wee little village attended the service on Sundays, every week, without fail.
Yes. That includes me - until my parents started drifting apart from each other.
Now it’s all very queer because quite literally every Sunday morning was the same. Sunny, slightly chilly, but oh so relaxing! I don’t actually remember it ever raining on a Sunday back then. (Peculiar much?).
So this morning, it felt literally the same (oh, and there were Church bells a-ring-a-ding-dinging. Real bells, not the weirdness America has) as back then. So much so that I suddenly felt like I was seven years old and walking to Church with my parents and sister. Then I realised that wasn’t the case and stopped kicking the conkers on the floor, to the relief of the elderly Church-goers walking past me.
Wow. What an exciting post. Crikey, what’s going on?!
I’m tellin’ ya, sunshine does weird things to those English folk. The British aren’t coming, they’re going insane! 
(You love us really).
All we’ve been having is sun. All my plants died, and the grass has been a fugly brown for 3 months. I’ll trade you weather patterns, maybe?
Churches have bells?
I’ll do the same thing sometimes, feel just like it was back when, but for some reason I’m always terribly, painfully aware of how much better it was then.
And you were working home from work? You poor girl! Work has made you a work-minded worker. I prescribe bed rest and a day off to enjoy a normal day, when all you have to do is dread going back to work. (I hate having to go into work on Friday to pick up my check. I’m always thinking, “God, I’m off and I’m HERE?!”)
It definitely didn’t feel like I had summer this year as well… it was full of rain. We didn’t get flooded as badly as we did in the last few years again… that’s the good part about it!! How different is British bells from American Bells?? I’m truly intrigued to know.
Well, I’m glad you are getting some sunshine. We have had tons of hurricanes here. It sucks. Hope all is well with you
haha, Summer is the best!
It’s always Summer in Miami… but our ACTUAL summers are always full of rain. Nasty, cloudy, rainy days
Glad you’re enjoying your sunshine, though!
@ Mari
I would love to swap weather patterns with you! Sun please!
Although saying that we have had a bit more in the past couple of days, but now it’s going to rain for the remainder of this week. 
Yes! Churches have bells! Big uber huge ones… I’ll have to track down a picture to show you.
I know what you mean - it’s horrible having to go into work when you aren’t actually working. I think it should be illegal to do so personally, otherwise we’ll go insane! (That’s maybe rather drastic, but ah well!).
@ Destiny
It really does suck not having a real summer. There’s no other way to put it. We’ll just have to suffer together!
As far as I’m aware British bells really are different from American ones! I only say that because whenever I’ve been in the USA on a Sunday (keeping in mind I lived there for two years) the sound coming from a Church was rather… cheesey? Modern? Non-bell like?!
Whereas over here they are like 100+ year old huuuuge bells that do quite literally sound like heavy metal things bashing together. Just wonderful!
@ Justin
Yeah, see I don’t think I could put up with summer all year round - even with the real summer wet and rainy. I need to see some snow during the year!
Although even that is disappearing from Britain. It’s true - go to England and it rains, rains, rains!
Hey, you haven’t updated since my last comment so I guess you’re busy with life right now. I hope everything’s going well for ya. Also, I notice that you reply to comments. There’s a cool plugin called Brians Threaded Comments for wordpress that allows you to reply to comments in the same “thread”. Also I know of a comment email responder that will allow YOU (not other commenters) to respond to comments and it emails the person you responded to. Sorry my comment is so long.
@ Angela
Life has been pretty busy actually! But a new post will be on it’s way at some point, when I can decide which of the many topics I have in mind I want to write about!
Thanks for suggesting that plugin - sounds extremely useful to me so I’ll definitely check it out!
And I’m using a (if not the) comment email responder plugin, it’s damn handy I have to say!
Thanks for the comment you left on my site. My Halloween costume didn’t really cost that much. It was around about £20 in British pounds and an extra £6 for postage. Pretty reasonable.
You’re right about the weather. It has been awful for the last two years. I don’t mind so much now that it’s autumn. This is my favourite time of year and I always feel that there’s a certain calmness in the air. The weather stays pretty calm and everybodys pretty relaxed so … good vibes, haha!
I find now that when the sun does come out over here in the UK I can’ stand to be in for longer than 10 minutes or so. It’s weird. I’m just not used to it I guess, haha!
Sunshine? Where? There wasn’t any here.
Lucky.
haaa… weather here is super unpredictable - we have el nino and then la nina and vise versa in a matter of days. It could be stormy today and then super sunny tomorrow.
Real church bells are gorgeous! For some reason, they always remind me of when I was little and I took piano lessons. There was a practice piece entitled “ring, ring” or something like that, which I enjoyed playing over and over again.