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Entries relating to summer.
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A breakfast consisting entirely of refrigerated takeaway that somehow tastes even better than it did the night before.
Read full entry →Filling a suitcase with clothing for sunshine, frost, wind and torrential rain all at once.
Read full entry →The seemingly supernatural relationship between outdoor cooking and sudden rainfall.
Read full entry →Trusting the British weather far more than experience suggests you should.
Read full entry →A recurring national belief that the coming months will somehow be different from every previous year.
Read full entry →Experiencing every season of the year during a single British afternoon.
Read full entry →A brief period of misplaced optimism that inevitably ends with people shivering again.
Read full entry →Making immediate warm-weather purchases during fleeting moments of sunshine.
Read full entry →A precautionary layer that is apparently essential during every British summer.
Read full entry →Automatically bringing wet-weather clothing regardless of the predicted sunshine.
Read full entry →The collective belief that cooking outdoors somehow changes the air temperature by several degrees.
Read full entry →The optimistic British tradition of firing up the barbecue at the first faint hint of warmth, regardless of the actual weather.
Read full entry →The violent, highly satisfying physical closure of a work computer, signifying the absolute end of your corporate compliance for the day.
Read full entry →The frantic, panic-inducing arithmetic performed in the middle of the night that only serves to keep you awake longer.
Read full entry →An insufferable pedant who weaponizes Instagram direct messages to point out that the building in your photo is actually neo-gothic.
Read full entry →A visceral, physical flinch performed while unlocking a financial app after a night of reckless, alcohol-fueled contactless payments.
Read full entry →The unironic act of treating a routine supermarket trip with a partner as a satisfying, enjoyable shared outing.
Read full entry →A spontaneous, loyal act of standing up for a partner in a dispute, delivered without any need to be asked first.
Read full entry →A gravity-defying, structurally ambitious plate of meat and vegetables assembled with pure buffet confidence.
Read full entry →A gentle, unspoken but unmistakable competitive undercurrent between two relatives regarding sauce quality.
Read full entry →Overwhelmed with sudden, near-instantaneous demand the moment even mild sunshine appears above a beer garden.
Read full entry →A creeping, nationally shared sense of impending Monday triggered exclusively by a single BBC theme tune.
Read full entry →Describing a batch of puddings that emerged from the oven with all the height and drama of a pancake.
Read full entry →Prone to enthusiastically overstating mild sunshine as intense heat by British meteorological standards.
Read full entry →The dictionary is still being written
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