Lost

[fpb]

One summer. Went missing some time in June. If found, please return to: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Europe.

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[guarani]

I believe it's wandering toward this region... will try to return it asap.

[elise-the-great.livejournal.com]

You can have mine, if you don't mind forty-degree heat and classes in which such questions are asked as "what are osmosis" and "how many kidneys do I have?."

On the bright side, it has also involved scones.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I believe they are having forty-plus degree heat in Italy as well. As for the ignorance, well, I dare say a few comparable classes could be found... Have I understood it correctly, that you are a schoolteacher?

[stigandnasty919.livejournal.com]

I think its outside my office window right at this moment. Actually we've had quite a decent summer in Northern Ireland and, I think, Scotland.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

To quote my friend prylliepwns, at this moment I hate you with the intensity of a thousand burning suns. I am having to go out in an autumn rain to see a doctor and to pay a bill wich ought to have been settled online. IN THE RAIN. Grrrrrrrrrrr.

[stigandnasty919.livejournal.com]

Bear in mind I am sitting in work looking at the good weather through a window......

[elegant-bonfire.livejournal.com]

OK, this may sound like a stupid question, but doesn't it rain a LOT in England usually? I knew someone who spent a year over there and was fond of saying, "English people aren't tan, they're rusty."

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Not like this. It is true that Lord Byron's description of an English summer as 'two days of sunshine and a thunderstorm" is pretty much on the spot, but this time we have not seen any of the days of sunshine. Now it is even managing to be humid and sultry without being sunny.

[elegant-bonfire.livejournal.com]

OK, I'd pictured English rain as just more that constant, steady sort. Admittedly, I've never been to England, but in the European countries I've visited, thunder and lightning seem to be uncommon. Here, those giant storms are common enough that I've had 3 near misses with lightning in my life.

Now it is even managing to be humid and sultry without being sunny. That pretty much describes Michigan, heh. The only state in the US with more cloud cover is Florida, oddly enough.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

You should have been here last night, that's all.

[elegant-bonfire.livejournal.com]

I actually love thunderstorms, even though I know they're dangerous. They're just so wild and elemental. One of the things on my list to do before I die is to go on a storm chasing tour in the Great Plains.

[elegant-bonfire.livejournal.com]

The Great Lakes area has had a very cool summer too. I was reading the statistics on AccuWeather.com, and Detroit had only one day at 85 degrees or more during the whole of July. It's actually been so chilly some nights that I've had to put an extra blanket on my bed. (VERY rare--usually this time of year I've got all the fans going, sitting in front of one or another of them.)