Exactly, Christos, a little change and contrast makes the good parts
all the more pleasurable. I lived in Florida for 2 and half years
and really missed the 4 seasons of (northern) Europe.
And it's OK for you to hope for a hot Summer, you're not threatened
with a dreadful shortage of water :-)
Chris
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C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
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On 17 May 2006, at 15:10, Christos Stavrou wrote:
> Someone would rather realise how it's become almost idealised, if
> had the
> chance to listen people talking about a specific summer, such as of
> '76,
> etc.. In other words, Hot and Long summers pass to the social
> discouse of
> myth, of a legend! :-)
>
> Compare now this with the places where summer means a way of life,
> where the
> warm feeling in the skin, the uninterrupted sunshine and the
> outgoing life
> are taken for granted.. so they're hardly noticed.
>
> And it's a pitty, because at least in our urban, gloomy and rather
> 'ugly'
> northern english parts, abit of sun transforms the whole society,
> from the
> way the cities look beautiful to the way people behave...
>
> So, photographs hardly capture all of these things.. what it means
> and how
> the 'wonderful english summer' is experienced!
> What else? Oh yes, let's hope this year we'll have a great one that
> will
> survive in memory :-)
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