#17 Things I like about my least favourite season

[kaberett]

I have decided that my least favourite season is probably summer, though it was quite hard to work out: because binding becomes vastly more uncomfortable and because the UK is so staggeringly ill-equipped to handle hot weather, and it's only for a day or two at a time so you never really have time to acclimatise.(Summer in SoCal was fine! I got used to it and adjusted habits to cope! This is never possible in the UK.) It is sticky and I have to pay more attention to hydrating enough and temperature regulation is harder. (I mean, winter has its downsides - my hands get proper unhappy with wheelchairing etc - but on the whole they bother me less.)

THINGS I LIKE: the moments when I do get to just sit and absorb sunlight and heat and don't have to think. The plants all being sturdily enthusiastic and making there be flowers and fruit and, eventually, baby plants. Fresh raspberries and strawberries. The sea being warm enough to stick toes into. The length of the days. Long evenings. Open-air concerts and plays. Properly fresh vegetables. All the colours the sea goes. :-)

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[sorrillia]

When I visited England I was deeply confused and concerned by the nearly-complete absence of water fountains. I saw one in the Natural History Museum (under the stairs), one in the airport in Manchester (just after you passed through security to get to the gates, convenient for refilling your emptied water bottles), but I think that was it for the whole country in the course of two weeks.

My current theory is that the English are secretly sauropsids pretending to be synapsids, and that's why they need so little water.

[naath]

Oh, but it's warm. And never too hot for me here in England (I was in Egypt in 40degree heat and it wasn't too hot, I'm not sure I do "too hot" in weather terms).

My least favourite thing is winter because it is cold and dark. But sometimes it is cold and SHINY which is great. Also I get to see pretty pink sunrises.