Tudor Hughes wrote:


I agree with all that and even in 2006 you could not convince
late middle-aged people that recent summers were better than when they
were very young, but they were. This may be due to selective memory
of particular fine days or spells and is part of the very human need
to erase bad memories and preserve and even enhance the good ones but
it doesn't make for good climatology.

Ah, the 'summer holiday effect'.
As an 8 year old child the 6 weeks might as well have been forever,
well they certainly seemed that way at the start.
Endless days playing outside, always warm, always sunny, gettng
sunburnt rather than soaked.
But of course it wasn't really like that. There would have been days
with pouring rain when I was cooped up inside getting under my Mum's
feet, but nobody ever rembers that.
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Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl