Summer

It's summer at last: the chalk art at the Birchwood tells me so, and the temperatures are finally rising to reinforce the message:


Meanwhile, Europe is having its hottest temperatures on record, I believe, and the western parts of Asia as well. 50°C, anyone? Global warming means overall warming but also sometimes weirding, as in our cool summer, which is caused by the warm Arctic pushing its usually cool air to the south.