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Hi Kalyn, If you are affected by SAD. There are Daylight/SAD lamps, they can be very affective. You need to sit in front of them for about 30 mins to an hour in the morning I believe. Some friends have reported great benefits.
Autumn is my favourite season. Not too hot, not too cold, the colours on the trees, the fruit ready for picking. And even on the colder days, as long as it's not actually raining, it feels fresh rather than truly cold.
I'm in North London and with a funfair/fate just five minutes way , combined with the scent of charcoal and popcorn and the sound of people having fun is beautiful....salads , strawberries, cold rose wine are a must for summer. Pub lunches, days out with the family, impromptu picnics with my lot in the park.... love it all.
Being British and living in the UK what I like about the Summer is that I can plan to go walking in local countryside and not worry that 1) I have to be on my way home before 4:20pm because the Winter brings darkness promptly and 2) I don't have to worry where I walk as the mud is dried and virtually everywhere you can tread without worry.
Schools have other holidays spread throughout the rest of the year which is why summer is only 6 weeks (as a kid we always called it the 6 weeks holiday 😂)
I haven't experienced summer in the UK, but almost ALL those reasons are why I love summer in the PNW. Seattle is at it's BEST in the summer (until smoke season). I LOOOOVE the long days, happy people, neighbors out front saying hi, eating out on the back deck, walks in the morning to get my day started, festivals (Seafair!!!! Blue Angels!!!) and pop-up market days in my little town. People here, as I'm sure they are there, appreciate the good weather when we have it and really make the most of it. It doesn't go to waste. 🌞
I love an agricultural show or it's smaller cousin, the village show. Walking round with a pint in hand trying to appear knowledgeable looking at farm animals, tractors or giant vegetables. At a village show you'll also get cake making contests, jam making and all sorts.
What I most enjoy when I visit the UK in the summer are: county or district (or the Welsh National) agricultural shows, which are fétes on steroids; rock festivals and open-air concerts; the BBC Proms, including the Proms in the Park; and the largest peripatetic cultural festival in Europe - the National Eisteddfod. I also love a lazy day on a village green listening to the sound of leather hitting willow - otherwise known as a cricket match - accompanied by a Pimms and strawberries and heavy cream. 😋
Loved this video. Your observation that summer brings out the best in people in the UK, I absolutely agree Like you I suffer with SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) so the long days are an absolute blessing. Great to see that you enjoy it so much too
I'm not really into sports, watching or playing, but I do look forward to the Wimbledon tennis tournament on TV as, like you said, it proclaims and oozes summertime. The fact that the broadcasts go on practically all day makes them perfect as pleasant background 'wallpaper', along with the sound of racket hitting ball.
My husband is a really grumpy git in the winter, he's always been affected by SAD. When the pandemic started we both began to take Vitamin D and Vitamin K supplements and his SAD improved dramatically - might not work for everyone but if you haven't tried it already, you may well find it helps just like it did my husband. Not a complete cure but an improvement :)
We down the Vitamin D3 in the Seattle area, as well. I get big bottles from Costco. It's very much a normal part of most everyone's vitamin regiment, here. My husband also has a SAD light that helps him at his desk.
Just one of the many ways wives in the UK support their 'other half'. Complain that they're grumpy when they have an illness the wife doesn't understand !!!!!
@@pud2.trade6 Oy! Bloody cheek! Grumpy git is (well was) a perfect description of his winter mood, I understand exactly why and was not complaining! Who do you think researched and got the Vitamins D & K?
Interesting you mention outdoor movie screenings, I'm native to the UK and I've never come across one as far as I can remember, when I think of outdoor movies I think of the classic American drive in. Maybe I've led a sheltered life! 😂 I agree about the happy vibe, maybe it's because the winter days are so short and bleak that summer transforms us....
It's a fairly recent thing - by that I mean in the last 10 years or more, but not when I was young. At first, they were just done in country house gardens and the like; now, you'll find them in town centres and, of course, in big cities. Last year, on a day trip to London, we came across Paddington 2 being shown by the canal near King's Cross. It kept the kids amused while we made a much needed pitstop for coffee. I've seen the local council advertise ones during the summer in a nearby park. So, lookout for posters, or look on the events page of your local authority's website.
The reason the schools were allowed 6 weeks holiday was the fact that the kids were expected to help gather in the crops to feed the Nation through the winter months. Time teenagers had to spend 2 weeks in the fields rather than sitting in their bedroom playing on their phone/computers.
Try getting todays kids off their arses and away from their rooms/phones. Even here in Cornwall,the millennials are just not interested in anything physical or outdoorsy. Farmers I know tell me they are struggling for farm workers as this generation doesn’t want to know. There ARE exceptions of course but generally speaking this is becoming an unspoken problem. Same with recruitment into the armed forces.
when i started school in 1957 we got 13weeks off to help farmers , then in 1960 it was reduced to 12 weeks i remember in those days it never rained for 4 month solid .. this was in Stirling Scotland..
Wish i lived in your generation sometimes. My wife and i are millenials with 2 little ones. Im an electrician while she is a nurse.. yet we struggle to get by. Shouldn't be the case. I dont mean to gripe just good to talk and offload.
@@lonsdaleslipons9570 This went back to WWl. a necessity.. I,as a single woman working in retail was never able to get a mortgage. Lived in rented accommodation my entire life. Now 67, I live in a tiny annexe , up an unlit back lane. I do not have central heating. Only the extremely elderly need central heating . Those of my generation had to save for everything. Buy everything 2nd hand. If we got a holiday
I'm really torn about the seasons. As a biker, I love summer for pleasure riding but the rest of the time I'll take winter. I actually prefer the dark nights and the cold. I do have good reason. I work shifts so perpetual darkness means I can sleep anytime. And if it's cold, it's easy to warm up but if it's hot, it's almost impossible to cool down with any lasting success.
I used to work shifts in a place with no external windows. I hated the winter. Arrive at work in the dark. Leave work in the dark.... very depressing but I guess most places have windows ;o) Sleeping during the day in the summer could be tricky however, not because of the light (blackout curtains) but because of the heat.
I haven’t been for a few years now but I always used to love going to the National Trust outdoor evening concerts. I have been to classical, musicals, 40s, 70s and 60s nights. Everyone would take a picnic, chairs, tables and lanterns and for the theme nights everyone dressed up. There were stalls and fireworks. It was a fun night out when the weather was good and it was the height of summer for me.
We had one of these evening open air concerts in the first week of July a few years back. The week before it was really warm, the week after it was really warm, the day it was held it was about 2°C with a north-easterly wind blowing. It's a lottery in the UK trying to pick a good day for this sort of thing.
What's my favourite thing about summer. The cricket season of course. Watching Glamorgan in Sophia Gardens is basically my summer holiday. And I love it.
I love spring and summer. In late spring the clocks move which to me makes the days longer. Today is supposed to be the hottest day here on record so far in history and a lot of people don't like it but it's much cheaper than any coldest day on record. Summer is just the best time of year here in the UK to me and has been since my childhood.
Summer car boot sales. With our long day, BBQ nights with friends are fab. Drinking eating till wee hours. For the kids summer holidays, originally they were timed so the kids could go and help on the farms. But also with higher latitude our summers a little bit later. I’m also happy that the UK doesn’t have as much air-conditioning if we are going to get warmer summers I would prefer the more European way of coping with the heat. Think of Greece and Italy. One of the reasons the US has such a high carbon emission rate is due to all the air conditioning that are used in the summer and in the winter.
I also love the long days in summer. And the further north you are the longer they are - sunset in Dover is currently around 9pm, where I am in the N West it’s around 9.30 and in Stornaway on Lewis it’s around 10.10 pm. A month ago, you could’ve added on another hour or more.
The summer holidays are historically linked to the time when the harvest was due in. Many children from farms etc were needed to help at this important time. The London area also left to camp out for 3 months or so with the children to pick hops etc.
you're so right about our summers and watching movies , sitting on the grass, picnicking in say Alnwick Castle and watching a Harry Potter film (the first 2 were filmed there ) ..everyone ooh's and aah's together. It's, literally, magic 🎉
Summer for me is festivals, fetes, big parks (Richmond, Windsor Great Park, etc.,), and Royal Ascot. When the weather has been good, like this year, it's bliss!
Every season has its benefits, even winter with everything dying off ready for spring, crisp clear days and coming home to soul food, or a warm pub. The festivals of lights, bonfire night, dawali, advent, Hanukka and of course preparations for Christmas. Halloween is very popular with children, but an over the top commercial fest , far from the days of apple bobbing and treacle parkin
@@raibeart1955That is not what you do. You do not open the window when it is freezing outside. Likewise you close every windows very early in the morning when the house is still cool, and close curtains. This blocks the heat. Opening the windows just let's the heat in.
I live in a tropical country where it's over 30 degrees every day. The thing people miss out on is ceiling fans. They cost a tiny fraction of air conditioning, both for installation and electricity use, and make a massive difference in comfort. Considering how short the 'hot season' in the UK is, could be less than a week, installing air conditioning really is a waste of money to be unused for 51 weeks and probably fail as a result. The UK doesn't need to copy the US here in using aircon, it needs to look at South East Asia use of fans, upright fans are nowhere near as effective as large ceiling ones.
Love laying on the decking furniture in the evening with my wife and the dog, listening to music. With a chilled bottle of wine enjoying the barmy evening. While my daughters sit in tic toking, talking about the old fart parents outside being boring.😂😂😂. Great watch like you, I love summer.😎👍
Local Highland Games are fun. As well as the competitions music and dancing it was fun as a teenager watching some of the local pipe band get drunker and drunker😂
The day length is dependant on latitude, & how the sunlight reaches the Earth at different times of the year. The UK is considerably more northern than much of the US, particularly Florida, so this has a noticeable effect. Even within Britain, days in Scotland (Edinburgh) seem endless in summer, the sun hardly seems to set , maybe close to 11 pm, & even then it hardly seems to darken before sunrise at about 3.30 am.
I can remember palying cricket at 9 PM in late June, years ago. The ball would disappear into the setting sun which made it tricky to know if it was coming straingt at your head.
Having read the comments below i am going to buck the trend here. The best thing about summer is when it heads to Autumn and then Winter. There is a reason i always head North when i go away!
Hi, I am a Brit but I live in Malta summer here is great the sea temps gets up to + 30c and from May till the end of Oct there are Feasta just about every day (street party) all over the island and if you like old world building Malta has them we get get around 7m tourists per year as summer came get up to + 40c and winter is around + 16c no snow/fog/ice and there is no high or low tides you should cheq Malta out
Hi! As to the dark hours and light / sunny hours in the UK, did you know that in the uk, as you pointed out it stays lighter longer in summer. This is to do with when the sun goes down and then rises, which is caused by the tilt of the Earth as it goes round the sun. In Summer time the Northern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun and it’s visa versa with the Southern Hemisphere. During summer the sun comes up faster and stays up longer in winter the opposite, hence the ancient solstices were born. Summer solstice sun starts to fall faster, winter solstice sun starts to rise faster. Good grief try and explain that to anyone.
I remember not getting out of school in 80s/1990 until about the 20 something July but it varies where you are. I’m enjoying the heatwave here in Grimsby after visiting France 🇫🇷 and Belgium 🇧🇪 for 16 days were it was 26,27, 28 degrees Celsius.
A few other things, which might not suit you, but are features of a British summer, and one is the massive number of music festivals which occur all over the country. Some are simply massive, like Glastonbury, but they go all down the range to relatively local ones. I'm lucky as the little town in the Cotswolds where I live has an annual two day music festival at the end of July, and it's the only large scale free one in Oxfordshire with three stages. Needless to say, it's not full of big names, but you can make discoveries. Otherwise, within walking distance I have Wilderness (more of a hybrid music, arts festival) and a little further is Cornbury and a little further again is Cropredy, but there's a bunch more. Another feature, maybe not a favourite of yours, is beer festivals. There are a lot of those, and some years there are four within walking distance of where I live (meaning within about an hour), over some lovely countryside. Beer festivals very often feature music too, and most are set up to raise money for charity or local events (ours is, and has raised over a quarter of a million pounds). Then there are pub gardens. It's a great way of interspersing a longish country walk with a meal and a pint or two in a favourite country pub. Again, I'm fairly lucky in this respect, despite country pubs being under threat. I should add that summer isn't my favourite, spring is as that's when the countryside is at its best with blossom everywhere and towards the end the days are very long. This is assuming it's a nice one; it's no unknown to have wet and almost autumnal weather. nb. having the sonorous word "autumnal" is the best argument I know for favouring "autumn" over "fall" for that time of year.
My mother suffered SAD and had to run a sunlight lamp in winter to get through. She suffered terrible depression otherwise. Town/city/county fair. Cricket for me, another typical British sport in summer. A £20 note is a rare pleasant thing to find floating in the sea. Green grass, flowers and summer nothing better.
Yeah - I don't do tennis but last September we were on holiday in Bournemouth in a static caravan and every night I lived Emma Raducanu's trip to the final. Watched the final and oh boy I was so excited and ended up pretty darned drunk lol If you want to be talked to by random strangers - in a nice engaging way - come up to the North - we are so friendly to everyone - really. Yesss !! Bournemouth beach and swimming in the channel - I think its only about 3 feet deep so by September its like a warm bath. I will be there and doing it at the end of August - proper lush.
Scottish school summer holidays are very different too, end of June schools start summer holidays and they go back middle of August. Very different from England.
@@shaunw9270 yes, it rarely gets below freezing just as it rarely gets above 30, it has a temperate oceanic climate. Compared to New York, Chicago or Prague, it's much milder even though it's further North (a lot further in the case of New York and Chicago).
A lot of winter season disorder is such short days we get little sunlight, if you're not getting sunlight you end up with vit d deficiency so unless you take supplements then you'll feel tired and depressed from that.
Would a "Village/Church Fête" equate to a US "County Fair" obviously with differences in scale. UK has County Fairs as well but they are more agricultural/commercial. The big difference between the Northern Latitude UK (BC/Alaska) and Florida/Texas( Morocco, nr tropical) is the length of Dawn/Dusk Twighlight. In the north it doesn't really get dark. In the tropics the Sunsets quickly and its dark in minutes.
Kaitlyn the further north you get in the UK the longer the daylight during the days get because it gets closer to the Arctic circle which means during the summertime in the Arctic their is 24 hour daylight
Ahaha! The Watermelon lollies! I’m addicted to them! I’m actually infamous for always having some in my freezer and converting others to the cult. In the UK we really don’t get very tasty watermelons so a lot of people don’t really like them (myself included). So these watermelons with the sweetness and the flavour as a treat are absolutely divine! I’m glad to see you’re also a member of the Cult of “Roun(d)-trees” The first syllable sounds exactly like round but without the D.
I love the summer months because of the sheer daylight hours, and also sitting in the garden in the evening enjoying the warm weather with a beer or two, although that wasn't possible on the Monday and Tuesday of this week because it was so hot, it was cooler in the house with a fan on. We've had the hottest days on record this year in the UK this week, but what people don't realise is, we also have high humidity at the same time, it's just unbearable to sit in, so it's more comfortable in the house. I'm not a fan of winter with the dark starts and dark finishes when it comes to work, but I love Christmas time, always have done since I was a kid and I'm 55 now with grandkids. As long as it doesn't snow too heavily that it affects me getting to work, I love it. Life in the UK, specifically Stoke in England for us is just great. I wouldn't want to live in any other country.
The long days of sunlight really makes it for me. Best months of the years and always look forward to the summer. I have to agree, a proper charcoal bar b q is the correct way to do it. Something to do with showing off those hunter/gather skills. IMHO anyone who uses gas is cheating.
I agree, I love the bright orange sunsets and the mists in the morning but I must admit I love a snowy winter and I put this down to being born in mid December
UK schools summer holidays date back to the harvest times on farms. Kids were expected to help, maybe American harvests aren't at the same time as the UK.
Obviously the latitude denotes the daylight hours and having lived in the extremes i.e. Guyana and Iceland the difference is very noticeable. in Iceland for example, it is common for the kids to be playing football at 3.00am in the daylight. The Icelanders also experience SAD that results in one of the highest suicide rates in the world. The best in people depends where you live. The further north you go the cheerier the people are no matter what the season, its sad (SAD?) that southerners only smile (occasionally) in summer. Outdoor music concerts are the best, when patrons turn up in white DJs clutching a chilled bottle of Moet, a hamper and a rug and listen to concerts in the park - so quintessentially British! The 1812 always goes better with real fireworks at the end.
I don’t know where you live, but if you like fetes and Wimbledon, you might be ready for cricket? Even if you don’t know what’s going on, there is a culture around it you might enjoy. In a little village somewhere it might be on the village green and there might be a stall for tea and cakes, or at the other end of the scale, a test match at Lords can be a lot of fun - because there are so many people from other countries in London the test matches can be a lot of fun. At an England/West Indies match there are always lots of drums and things going in the stands. Even though cricket is nowhere near as popular as football, at Lords, you will find a lot of corporate tents and boxes, because it’s a very popular day out, so companies will use it to reward their staff, or to entertain clients, like Wimbledon, it has a lot of culture shrouding it. Another nice thing to do on a summers afternoon there - especially in some country towns, is to stop by the bowling green, there are always benches and there are always old folk playing, it’s actually a much more skilled game than you would imagine and it can be fun to watch - or like cricket or tennis can just be an excuse to sit out in the sun and have a little bit of something going on to keep you occupied.
Have to disagree with you. My favourite season is the Winter. I love the shot days, and long nights. Also love the cold, although it has been quite warm this year.
I twas great to see one of your videos make the Daily Mail a couple of weeks ago! I did have to watch it all again and tell everyone I know that I subscribe to you lol!
Favourite thing in summer is the long evenings for a cheeky evening hill walk- because it is otherwise head down, working, working, working up here in the Lakes!
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Hi Kalyn,
If you are affected by SAD.
There are Daylight/SAD lamps, they can be very affective.
You need to sit in front of them for about 30 mins to an hour in the morning I believe.
Some friends have reported great benefits.
Autumn is my favourite season. Not too hot, not too cold, the colours on the trees, the fruit ready for picking. And even on the colder days, as long as it's not actually raining, it feels fresh rather than truly cold.
Good to hear you found my £20 note in sea at Bournemouth, I'll await its return.
Note I can identify it, it has a picture of the queen on it..😉
I'm in North London and with a funfair/fate just five minutes way , combined with the scent of charcoal and popcorn and the sound of people having fun is beautiful....salads , strawberries, cold rose wine are a must for summer. Pub lunches, days out with the family, impromptu picnics with my lot in the park.... love it all.
Being British and living in the UK what I like about the Summer is that I can plan to go walking in local countryside and not worry that 1) I have to be on my way home before 4:20pm because the Winter brings darkness promptly and 2) I don't have to worry where I walk as the mud is dried and virtually everywhere you can tread without worry.
Schools have other holidays spread throughout the rest of the year which is why summer is only 6 weeks (as a kid we always called it the 6 weeks holiday 😂)
I haven't experienced summer in the UK, but almost ALL those reasons are why I love summer in the PNW. Seattle is at it's BEST in the summer (until smoke season). I LOOOOVE the long days, happy people, neighbors out front saying hi, eating out on the back deck, walks in the morning to get my day started, festivals (Seafair!!!! Blue Angels!!!) and pop-up market days in my little town. People here, as I'm sure they are there, appreciate the good weather when we have it and really make the most of it. It doesn't go to waste. 🌞
I love an agricultural show or it's smaller cousin, the village show. Walking round with a pint in hand trying to appear knowledgeable looking at farm animals, tractors or giant vegetables. At a village show you'll also get cake making contests, jam making and all sorts.
Cricket on the village green is the English summer epitomised
What I most enjoy when I visit the UK in the summer are: county or district (or the Welsh National) agricultural shows, which are fétes on steroids; rock festivals and open-air concerts; the BBC Proms, including the Proms in the Park; and the largest peripatetic cultural festival in Europe - the National Eisteddfod. I also love a lazy day on a village green listening to the sound of leather hitting willow - otherwise known as a cricket match - accompanied by a Pimms and strawberries and heavy cream. 😋
Totally love the Proms. There's nothing like it anywhere else on this earth.
Loved this video. Your observation that summer brings out the best in people in the UK, I absolutely agree
Like you I suffer with SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) so the long days are an absolute blessing. Great to see that you enjoy it so much too
I'm not really into sports, watching or playing, but I do look forward to the Wimbledon tennis tournament on TV as, like you said, it proclaims and oozes summertime. The fact that the broadcasts go on practically all day makes them perfect as pleasant background 'wallpaper', along with the sound of racket hitting ball.
Great to have you back 😃. Big fan of spring and autumn.
I love summer, sitting outside in a Pub garden drinking a nice cold pint of beer. Can't beat it!😀🥵☀
Just had one, roasting here
@@Lucia-1414 It is 18.25 here, the temp is 38C, but I have just finished a Pint of Charnwood Ale (Local brewery) Bloody Brilliant
@@iancomputerscomputerrepair8944 Just noticed you replied ...it's now cold and Cidra instead
My husband is a really grumpy git in the winter, he's always been affected by SAD. When the pandemic started we both began to take Vitamin D and Vitamin K supplements and his SAD improved dramatically - might not work for everyone but if you haven't tried it already, you may well find it helps just like it did my husband. Not a complete cure but an improvement :)
We down the Vitamin D3 in the Seattle area, as well. I get big bottles from Costco. It's very much a normal part of most everyone's vitamin regiment, here. My husband also has a SAD light that helps him at his desk.
Just one of the many ways wives in the UK support their 'other half'. Complain that they're grumpy when they have an illness the wife doesn't understand !!!!!
You can buy a special lamp , sunbathe in its light it’s supposed to help.
@@pud2.trade6 Oy! Bloody cheek! Grumpy git is (well was) a perfect description of his winter mood, I understand exactly why and was not complaining! Who do you think researched and got the Vitamins D & K?
Interesting you mention outdoor movie screenings, I'm native to the UK and I've never come across one as far as I can remember, when I think of outdoor movies I think of the classic American drive in. Maybe I've led a sheltered life! 😂 I agree about the happy vibe, maybe it's because the winter days are so short and bleak that summer transforms us....
It's a fairly recent thing - by that I mean in the last 10 years or more, but not when I was young. At first, they were just done in country house gardens and the like; now, you'll find them in town centres and, of course, in big cities.
Last year, on a day trip to London, we came across Paddington 2 being shown by the canal near King's Cross. It kept the kids amused while we made a much needed pitstop for coffee.
I've seen the local council advertise ones during the summer in a nearby park. So, lookout for posters, or look on the events page of your local authority's website.
The reason the schools were allowed 6 weeks holiday was the fact that the kids were expected to help gather in the crops to feed the Nation through the winter months.
Time teenagers had to spend 2 weeks in the fields rather than sitting in their bedroom playing on their phone/computers.
Try getting todays kids off their arses and away from their rooms/phones.
Even here in Cornwall,the millennials are just not interested in anything physical or outdoorsy.
Farmers I know tell me they are struggling for farm workers as this generation doesn’t want to know.
There ARE exceptions of course but generally speaking this is becoming an unspoken problem.
Same with recruitment into the armed forces.
when i started school in 1957 we got 13weeks off to help farmers , then in 1960 it was reduced to 12 weeks i remember in those days it never rained for 4 month solid .. this was in Stirling Scotland..
Wish i lived in your generation sometimes. My wife and i are millenials with 2 little ones. Im an electrician while she is a nurse.. yet we struggle to get by. Shouldn't be the case. I dont mean to gripe just good to talk and offload.
@@lonsdaleslipons9570 This went back to WWl. a necessity.. I,as a single woman working in retail was never able to get a mortgage. Lived in rented accommodation my entire life. Now 67, I live in a tiny annexe , up an unlit back lane. I do not have central heating. Only the extremely elderly need central heating .
Those of my generation had to save for everything. Buy everything 2nd hand. If we got a holiday
It we ever got a holiday it was 20 mile away in a caravan with no toilet or running water.
I definitely feel more cheerful in the summer - can't be doing with dark mornings and it getting dark earlier in the evenings
I'm really torn about the seasons.
As a biker, I love summer for pleasure riding but the rest of the time I'll take winter.
I actually prefer the dark nights and the cold.
I do have good reason.
I work shifts so perpetual darkness means I can sleep anytime.
And if it's cold, it's easy to warm up but if it's hot, it's almost impossible to cool down with any lasting success.
I used to work shifts in a place with no external windows. I hated the winter. Arrive at work in the dark. Leave work in the dark.... very depressing but I guess most places have windows ;o) Sleeping during the day in the summer could be tricky however, not because of the light (blackout curtains) but because of the heat.
I haven’t been for a few years now but I always used to love going to the National Trust outdoor evening concerts. I have been to classical, musicals, 40s, 70s and 60s nights. Everyone would take a picnic, chairs, tables and lanterns and for the theme nights everyone dressed up. There were stalls and fireworks. It was a fun night out when the weather was good and it was the height of summer for me.
We had one of these evening open air concerts in the first week of July a few years back. The week before it was really warm, the week after it was really warm, the day it was held it was about 2°C with a north-easterly wind blowing. It's a lottery in the UK trying to pick a good day for this sort of thing.
What's my favourite thing about summer. The cricket season of course. Watching Glamorgan in Sophia Gardens is basically my summer holiday. And I love it.
got to be the colour in gardens finally bright flowers butterflies fluttering round them just to relax in the garden
Our winters are so long and summers so short that i for one NEVER complain about the heat.
In Scotland the kids get out of school the end of June to start the summer holidays and they last around 12 weeks
I love spring and summer. In late spring the clocks move which to me makes the days longer. Today is supposed to be the hottest day here on record so far in history and a lot of people don't like it but it's much cheaper than any coldest day on record. Summer is just the best time of year here in the UK to me and has been since my childhood.
Summer car boot sales.
With our long day, BBQ nights with friends are fab. Drinking eating till wee hours.
For the kids summer holidays, originally they were timed so the kids could go and help on the farms. But also with higher latitude our summers a little bit later.
I’m also happy that the UK doesn’t have as much air-conditioning if we are going to get warmer summers I would prefer the more European way of coping with the heat. Think of Greece and Italy. One of the reasons the US has such a high carbon emission rate is due to all the air conditioning that are used in the summer and in the winter.
Great to see you back on you tube. I’m in southeast kent around 35 degrees far too hot. Hope you are keeping cool
I also love the long days in summer. And the further north you are the longer they are - sunset in Dover is currently around 9pm, where I am in the N West it’s around 9.30 and in Stornaway on Lewis it’s around 10.10 pm. A month ago, you could’ve added on another hour or more.
I love it too, that it’s light from 4am to 10:30pm in the Summer, and from 9pm to 4pm in winter.
The summer holidays are historically linked to the time when the harvest was due in. Many children from farms etc were needed to help at this important time. The
London area also left to camp out for 3 months or so with the children to pick hops etc.
you're so right about our summers and watching movies , sitting on the grass, picnicking in say Alnwick Castle and watching a Harry Potter film (the first 2 were filmed there ) ..everyone ooh's and aah's together. It's, literally, magic 🎉
We don't have a summer in the UK only a few random warm days
Summer for me is festivals, fetes, big parks (Richmond, Windsor Great Park, etc.,), and Royal Ascot. When the weather has been good, like this year, it's bliss!
I love summer for the exact same reason. I'm already looking forward to it.
Every season has its benefits, even winter with everything dying off ready for spring, crisp clear days and coming home to soul food, or a warm pub. The festivals of lights, bonfire night, dawali, advent, Hanukka and of course preparations for Christmas. Halloween is very popular with children, but an over the top commercial fest , far from the days of apple bobbing and treacle parkin
I'd say almost everyone in the UK has air conditioning. It's called opening a window.
Yeah it did a lot of good last year when it was up to 40 degrees in places 😂
@@woodylass1That is the time when you open 2 windows…
@@raibeart1955That is not what you do. You do not open the window when it is freezing outside. Likewise you close every windows very early in the morning when the house is still cool, and close curtains. This blocks the heat.
Opening the windows just let's the heat in.
I live in a tropical country where it's over 30 degrees every day. The thing people miss out on is ceiling fans. They cost a tiny fraction of air conditioning, both for installation and electricity use, and make a massive difference in comfort. Considering how short the 'hot season' in the UK is, could be less than a week, installing air conditioning really is a waste of money to be unused for 51 weeks and probably fail as a result. The UK doesn't need to copy the US here in using aircon, it needs to look at South East Asia use of fans, upright fans are nowhere near as effective as large ceiling ones.
damn , have yous got some of those too , and here we are thinking its a down under thing ,,,,,lol
Love laying on the decking furniture in the evening with my wife and the dog, listening to music. With a chilled bottle of wine enjoying the barmy evening. While my daughters sit in tic toking, talking about the old fart parents outside being boring.😂😂😂. Great watch like you, I love summer.😎👍
The schools in Scotland finish at end of June until late Aug! I believe last of English schools finish up this Friday!!!
I just love your energy in this vlog. I love ice lollies too. Take care and enjoy the rest of your summer.
Local Highland Games are fun.
As well as the competitions music and dancing it was fun as a teenager watching some of the local pipe band get drunker and drunker😂
Without doubt my favourite thing about a British summer is the daylight hours. I'd be happy to never see darkness again! 😂
Try Iceland for the Summer, 'tho maybe avoid it in Winter.
The day length is dependant on latitude, & how the sunlight reaches the Earth at different times of the year. The UK is considerably more northern than much of the US, particularly Florida, so this has a noticeable effect. Even within Britain, days in Scotland (Edinburgh) seem endless in summer, the sun hardly seems to set , maybe close to 11 pm, & even then it hardly seems to darken before sunrise at about 3.30 am.
Same in northern ireland when i worked nught duty i was surprised how little actual darkness there was
"Sometimes it's warm, sometimes it is raining"
Ah - the British summer in a nutshell.
I can remember palying cricket at 9 PM in late June, years ago. The ball would disappear into the setting sun which made it tricky to know if it was coming straingt at your head.
Watching cricket on the village green, whilst supping a decent ale bought from the local pub. An English summer in just a few words!
Outdoor movie? Outdoor opera or a symphony with picnic. Pahleease!
I love the way you love our country
Having read the comments below i am going to buck the trend here. The best thing about summer is when it heads to Autumn and then Winter. There is a reason i always head North when i go away!
Have you tried the outdoor theatre in Regents Park? They normally do a Shakespeare play and something light.
Hi, I am a Brit but I live in Malta summer here is great the sea temps gets up to + 30c and from May till the end of Oct there are Feasta just about every day (street party) all over the island and if you like old world building Malta has them we get get around 7m tourists per year as summer came get up to + 40c and winter is around + 16c no snow/fog/ice and there is no high or low tides you should cheq Malta out
I love Shakespeare in the Park in the summer...take a picnic, some wine and watch full play...
Hi! As to the dark hours and light / sunny hours in the UK, did you know that in the uk, as you pointed out it stays lighter longer in summer. This is to do with when the sun goes down and then rises, which is caused by the tilt of the Earth as it goes round the sun. In Summer time the Northern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun and it’s visa versa with the Southern Hemisphere. During summer the sun comes up faster and stays up longer in winter the opposite, hence the ancient solstices were born. Summer solstice sun starts to fall faster, winter solstice sun starts to rise faster. Good grief try and explain that to anyone.
Highlights of my summer _ festivals eg Tolpuddle and Love Supreme and relaxing in a nice garden which I made sure was prepared in Spring
I remember not getting out of school in 80s/1990 until about the 20 something July but it varies where you are. I’m enjoying the heatwave here in Grimsby after visiting France 🇫🇷 and Belgium 🇧🇪 for 16 days were it was 26,27, 28 degrees Celsius.
English school summer holidays generally start on the Friday closest to the 20th of July.
I love summer because sometimes outside get hot and we use eat ice cream 🍦and enjoy the sun 🌞
A few other things, which might not suit you, but are features of a British summer, and one is the massive number of music festivals which occur all over the country. Some are simply massive, like Glastonbury, but they go all down the range to relatively local ones. I'm lucky as the little town in the Cotswolds where I live has an annual two day music festival at the end of July, and it's the only large scale free one in Oxfordshire with three stages. Needless to say, it's not full of big names, but you can make discoveries. Otherwise, within walking distance I have Wilderness (more of a hybrid music, arts festival) and a little further is Cornbury and a little further again is Cropredy, but there's a bunch more.
Another feature, maybe not a favourite of yours, is beer festivals. There are a lot of those, and some years there are four within walking distance of where I live (meaning within about an hour), over some lovely countryside. Beer festivals very often feature music too, and most are set up to raise money for charity or local events (ours is, and has raised over a quarter of a million pounds).
Then there are pub gardens. It's a great way of interspersing a longish country walk with a meal and a pint or two in a favourite country pub. Again, I'm fairly lucky in this respect, despite country pubs being under threat.
I should add that summer isn't my favourite, spring is as that's when the countryside is at its best with blossom everywhere and towards the end the days are very long. This is assuming it's a nice one; it's no unknown to have wet and almost autumnal weather.
nb. having the sonorous word "autumnal" is the best argument I know for favouring "autumn" over "fall" for that time of year.
Hello gorgeous, i hope you’re enjoying the glorious weather, even though it is a little too hot!!!! 😊.
I often randomly walk down the street at any time of the year.....Good old Blighty...
My mother suffered SAD and had to run a sunlight lamp in winter to get through. She suffered terrible depression otherwise. Town/city/county fair. Cricket for me, another typical British sport in summer. A £20 note is a rare pleasant thing to find floating in the sea. Green grass, flowers and summer nothing better.
The money was laundered.
In Scotland the schools finish for summer in June through till almost end of August x
Yeah - I don't do tennis but last September we were on holiday in Bournemouth in a static caravan and every night I lived Emma Raducanu's trip to the final. Watched the final and oh boy I was so excited and ended up pretty darned drunk lol
If you want to be talked to by random strangers - in a nice engaging way - come up to the North - we are so friendly to everyone - really.
Yesss !! Bournemouth beach and swimming in the channel - I think its only about 3 feet deep so by September its like a warm bath. I will be there and doing it at the end of August - proper lush.
Scottish school summer holidays are very different too, end of June schools start summer holidays and they go back middle of August. Very different from England.
Wimbledon is truly a unique sporting event. I first went in 1977 and saw John McEnroe play in his first match there.
My favourite thing about Summer is that it's not Winter , which should be the name of the other three seasons !
🤣that’s what me eldest says. I love spring, summer and autumn, but in winter I wish I lived in a warmer climate.
The UK has a mild climate, even winter is pretty warm compared to the Northern half of Europe or the USA.
@@paulm2467 You seriously consider the UK Winter to be warm ?
@@shaunw9270 yes, it rarely gets below freezing just as it rarely gets above 30, it has a temperate oceanic climate. Compared to New York, Chicago or Prague, it's much milder even though it's further North (a lot further in the case of New York and Chicago).
@@paulm2467 I'm guessing you don't live in the UK.
A lot of winter season disorder is such short days we get little sunlight, if you're not getting sunlight you end up with vit d deficiency so unless you take supplements then you'll feel tired and depressed from that.
I bought blackout curtains to combat the early mornings 😁
My favorite things in the u.s. are music festivals, county and state fairs, neighborhood block parties and camping
Would a "Village/Church Fête" equate to a US "County Fair" obviously with differences in scale. UK has County Fairs as well but they are more agricultural/commercial.
The big difference between the Northern Latitude UK (BC/Alaska) and Florida/Texas( Morocco, nr tropical) is the length of Dawn/Dusk Twighlight. In the north it doesn't really get dark. In the tropics the Sunsets quickly and its dark in minutes.
Yeah long summer days are normal if you live north of Florida. Even in Oregon the sun doesn't set till after 10pm
I used to get woken early by the light mornings lol not anymore I got blackout curtains so I get a fee more hrs sleep 😁
Walking bare foot on the grass is hands down my favourite part of summer.
The best thing about Summer for me is that it’s only two more seasons till Spring 😉
I love the long days in summer
Kaitlyn the further north you get in the UK the longer the daylight during the days get because it gets closer to the Arctic circle which means during the summertime in the Arctic their is 24 hour daylight
Love summer - sitting in the beer garden talking rubbish with my friends!!
Ahaha! The Watermelon lollies! I’m addicted to them! I’m actually infamous for always having some in my freezer and converting others to the cult.
In the UK we really don’t get very tasty watermelons so a lot of people don’t really like them (myself included). So these watermelons with the sweetness and the flavour as a treat are absolutely divine!
I’m glad to see you’re also a member of the Cult of “Roun(d)-trees” The first syllable sounds exactly like round but without the D.
Hello Kalyn, I bet after Florida, you find it funny that here the weather is the main news.
I love the summer months because of the sheer daylight hours, and also sitting in the garden in the evening enjoying the warm weather with a beer or two, although that wasn't possible on the Monday and Tuesday of this week because it was so hot, it was cooler in the house with a fan on. We've had the hottest days on record this year in the UK this week, but what people don't realise is, we also have high humidity at the same time, it's just unbearable to sit in, so it's more comfortable in the house. I'm not a fan of winter with the dark starts and dark finishes when it comes to work, but I love Christmas time, always have done since I was a kid and I'm 55 now with grandkids. As long as it doesn't snow too heavily that it affects me getting to work, I love it. Life in the UK, specifically Stoke in England for us is just great. I wouldn't want to live in any other country.
Awesome video!!! Former Florida girl here as well!!! Whoo Whoo!! 🏄🏽♀️🥳🥳🤩 Aloha 🤙🏽 from Hawai’i 🧘🏽♀️🧉✨
The long days of sunlight really makes it for me. Best months of the years and always look forward to the summer. I have to agree, a proper charcoal bar b q is the correct way to do it. Something to do with showing off those hunter/gather skills. IMHO anyone who uses gas is cheating.
Here in the Midlands ( Leicestershire ) we are now in our second week of school holidays
Surprisingl ?? Not broken up I Lincolnshire yet.
Yes, that is the traditional factory fortnight shutdown.
Too late for this year but next Summer (2023) check out Henley Regatta.
My favourite season is Autumn. I just find the Summer always too hot. I was born in Autumn and I love the natural world best in the UK in Autumn.
I agree, I love the bright orange sunsets and the mists in the morning but I must admit I love a snowy winter and I put this down to being born in mid December
I worked at Wimbledon for the Fortnight in 1994, selling and hiring cushions!
School summer holidays start later here due to the fact they used to help at harvest time
UK schools summer holidays date back to the harvest times on farms. Kids were expected to help, maybe American harvests aren't at the same time as the UK.
Blackout curtains aren't expensive :) You do rather need them for a UK summer, unless you're a heavy sleeper.
Festivals. No one does music festivals better and there is hundreds to choose from. However Autumn is my favourite season.
Obviously the latitude denotes the daylight hours and having lived in the extremes i.e. Guyana and Iceland the difference is very noticeable. in Iceland for example, it is common for the kids to be playing football at 3.00am in the daylight. The Icelanders also experience SAD that results in one of the highest suicide rates in the world.
The best in people depends where you live. The further north you go the cheerier the people are no matter what the season, its sad (SAD?) that southerners only smile (occasionally) in summer.
Outdoor music concerts are the best, when patrons turn up in white DJs clutching a chilled bottle of Moet, a hamper and a rug and listen to concerts in the park - so quintessentially British! The 1812 always goes better with real fireworks at the end.
I don’t know where you live, but if you like fetes and Wimbledon, you might be ready for cricket? Even if you don’t know what’s going on, there is a culture around it you might enjoy. In a little village somewhere it might be on the village green and there might be a stall for tea and cakes, or at the other end of the scale, a test match at Lords can be a lot of fun - because there are so many people from other countries in London the test matches can be a lot of fun. At an England/West Indies match there are always lots of drums and things going in the stands. Even though cricket is nowhere near as popular as football, at Lords, you will find a lot of corporate tents and boxes, because it’s a very popular day out, so companies will use it to reward their staff, or to entertain clients, like Wimbledon, it has a lot of culture shrouding it.
Another nice thing to do on a summers afternoon there - especially in some country towns, is to stop by the bowling green, there are always benches and there are always old folk playing, it’s actually a much more skilled game than you would imagine and it can be fun to watch - or like cricket or tennis can just be an excuse to sit out in the sun and have a little bit of something going on to keep you occupied.
Have to disagree with you. My favourite season is the Winter. I love the shot days, and long nights. Also love the cold, although it has been quite warm this year.
I love the summer,I wish it was summer all year around,it’s so bleak in winter.
My favourite thing about summer. Don't have one. It's just something to look forward to after a Uk winter.
I twas great to see one of your videos make the Daily Mail a couple of weeks ago! I did have to watch it all again and tell everyone I know that I subscribe to you lol!
My favourite thing is the endless days
We are near Warwick castle who have drive in movies throughout the summer
Favourite thing in summer is the long evenings for a cheeky evening hill walk- because it is otherwise head down, working, working, working up here in the Lakes!
come up to Scotland and 19-20 hour days
The thing I miss about England is the long day light hours .