The end of summer

[ahinton]

Ditto to all of that. I like Byron's line that 'the English winter ends in July only to recommence in August'.

Sadly, he got it right; it also reminds me of someone from Cumbria being interviewed quite some years ago about life there in which his comment about the area's climatic conditions was that what's to be experienced there each year is nine months of bad weather and three months of winter...

[greenilex]

The bright and breezy Sarf Koast does ave its compensations,then...

[Serial_Apologist]

Sadly, he got it right; it also reminds me of someone from Cumbria being interviewed quite some years ago about life there in which his comment about the area's climatic conditions was that what's to be experienced there each year is nine months of bad weather and three months of winter...

Then I think I was lucky the first time I went there, and toured youth hostels and B&Bs with my then-girlfriend. It was late May, and with the "Foehn effect" of an easterly bringing sunshine and temperatures in the mid 20s Celsius it was clear air every day of the week. The next time I went, there were no mountains!

[Serial_Apologist]

The bright and breezy Sarf Koast does ave its compensations,then...

You are however more prone to mini-tornadoes and waterspounts down there than elsewhere in the UK, and at any time of the year, apparently.

[teamsaint]

You are however more prone to mini-tornadoes and waterspounts down there than elsewhere in the UK, and at any time of the year, apparently.

O great.

any more cheery news?

can't be that bad, or Sir Christopher would never have invented the hovercraft.

Very sad, the near demise of the commercial hovercraft. only two services left, one in Portsmouth, one in Sierra Leone.


Make of that what you will.

[BBMmk2]

Did we have a summer?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Very sad, the near demise of the commercial hovercraft. only two services left, one in Portsmouth, one in Sierra Leone.

Many of the parents of the children in the school where I first taught worked at British Hovercraft in East Cowes. Things were going so well at the time, an amphibious form of surface transport with considerable potential. It seemed that HS2 would be a concrete track from London to Manchester, completing the journey in an hour.
The problem for sea crossings was that it wasn't particularly comfortable when the hovercraft hit waves, and if the sea was rough, the "flights" wet frequently cancelled. But for river journeys, they had true potential.

[Serial_Apologist]

O great.

any more cheery news?

can't be that bad, or Sir Christopher would never have invented the hovercraft.

Very sad, the near demise of the commercial hovercraft. only two services left, one in Portsmouth, one in Sierra Leone.


Make of that what you will.

Whatever floats your boat, teamy!

[Nick Armstrong]

Summer?

Well, it's the Autumn Equinox today... So that was that.

[P. G. Tipps]

We hear this morning on the radio that the ever-garrulous Scots have 421 words for snow and possibly even more for rain.

Despite that nation's proud history in producing the explorative likes of David Livingstone & Mungo Park it was striking that the sun was never even mentioned probably because it is yet to be discovered by the natives ... ?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Well, it's the Autumn Equinox today... So that was that.

I've never worked out why the Americans call autumn "the fall". Surely that begins at the summer solstice, from which time the days get shorter.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I've never worked out why the Americans call autumn "the fall". Surely that begins at the summer solstice, from which time the days get shorter.

Have you seen the leaves recently?

[cloughie]

Have you seen the leaves recently?

Although I prefer the term Autumn (there's something old English about it), there is a certain logic to Spring and Fall!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Although I prefer the term Autumn (there's something old English about it), there is a certain logic to Spring and Fall!

I think the Old English is closer to "Harvest" (and the German "herbst") - "Autumn" more Roman or Norman. "Fall" is also English - one of the words prevalent (if not actually dominant) around the 16th/17th Century that got taken over in the Mayflower and survived better in the State of Oregon than in the country of "origin"