Originally Posted by Man like Monkey

Well sometimes it is hot, not often obviously but we get about ten days per summer when it is genuinely roasting (high 20s/low 30s).

But if it's sunny and the temperature is 15 or above then that's shorts weather for the Monkey

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.