How you can tell it's spring in the UK

[graculus]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7332986.stm

The sky is blue, it's been warm and nice, and now we have snow. Up to three inches of snow being forecast for southern England (cue whining from softy southerners any time now...). ;)

We have a couple of Zimbabweans now working for us and, partly to try and keep their minds off the craziness happening in their homeland, we've been talking to them about the mystery that is British weather. How it can allegedly be spring and yet it's snowing. How the 'summer' can be two weeks in June and then that'll be it. How we can get fabulous weather in September, after we've had months of meh. And so on and so forth.

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Well it makes a change from it raining

[sazandra.livejournal.com]

No whining from me, excellent reason to take even more photos.
http://sazandra.livejournal.com/534223.html

If you want to confuse the Zimbabweans more, last year 'summer' was two week in April.

Re: Well it makes a change from it raining

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Nice pics! You're about a hundred miles south of me, so we'd already had and lost our first snow, then we got a bit more this afternoon and now it's gone again... oh, British Summer Time is truly with us!

If you want to confuse the Zimbabweans more, last year 'summer' was two week in April.

One of them never seems to take her coat off even in the office. I'm not sure how she's going to cope if it never gets warm here. ;)

Re: Well it makes a change from it raining

[sazandra.livejournal.com]

Most of this morning's snow has melted away, except that in the shadows when the sun was shining or face north.

If I look to the north now I can see a bank of dark cloud, possibly the next band of snow all ready to dump on us this evening. Hey, ho the joys and unpredictability of the British weather.

[miriam-heddy.livejournal.com]

Have your Zimbabweans ever seen snow before?

Also, yes, I was in London in the summer once and it was interesting. Like some weird mix of Spring and Fall.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Have your Zimbabweans ever seen snow before?

No, they hadn't, so at least we got a decent fall this time around so they could appreciate it. Also, because they live in a country without a coastline, one of them told me how excited she was to be visiting a friend who lives by the sea in a few weeks time. ;)

Also, yes, I was in London in the summer once and it was interesting. Like some weird mix of Spring and Fall.

That's pretty much standard UK weather and accounts for why everything is so green and we're all so pale...