No shorts, no BBQs: this is how to do summer
Evening Standard|July 30, 2024
AT THE end of all our whining about the weather, the jet stream has moved and blessed us with a heatwave and the hottest day of the year today.
Ethan Croft
No shorts, no BBQs: this is how to do summer

“Wet summer”, “brat summer”, no summer at all — all the theories about what the hell happened to summer 2024 have evaporated like puddles on the pavement. Now we are left with the original archetype: traditional or trad summer. It’s dry, the sun is shining and the cricket’s on. But how to do trad summer properly? Here is an non-exhaustive list of pointers.

Don’t moan, no matter how infernally hot it gets. You spent all year waiting for this so don’t be an ingrate.

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