- The trusty, rusty old BBQ that has been loitering in the garden for the winter has been dusted off, cleaned up, and put to work,cooking the nation’s burgers and bangers to that unique blackened outside raw in the middle state that us Brits are so good at!
- Similarly, the plastic, garden furniture has been de-slimed and scrubbed up; the parasol dug out from the shed and de-cowebbed; and for some. the sun lounger has been dragged out, the mouldy cushions turned over, and are ready to go!
- People are comparing their sunburned shoulders and backs, (We never learn).
- The shorts are on! Yes I came home from work yesterday and Mr Grump had got the pure white milk bottle legs out. He would have worn his ‘mandals’ (those horrid man sandals) but I moaned about them so much last year, he got rid of them!
- The bloody lawn needs mowing AGAIN! It was only done last week!
- You see people doing ‘the wasp dance.’ You know the one, where they flail around madly, run a few steps, twirl around and start the whole thing over again. If you are lucky it might be accompanied by a bit of screaming (especially if it is me)!
- The shops have sold out of fans again! If you do have one, the whirring and clonking noise keeps you awake half the night anyway.
- Suddenly every cafe decides to serve a ‘cream tea!’
- It’s raining! Especially during Wimbledon
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