british summer is here.
[rain pouring] [thunder rumbling] [car horn blaring]
“go on. wheyyyyyyy!! Oh no.”
[in distance: “YOU IDIOT”, uproarious laughter]
“why would you go through that. what are you doing. ahhh no, he’s actually floating!”
“well of course he is. what a fucking bellend!”
“what a knobhead!”
“fucking hell.”This should be shown whenever people say stuff like “British people are so polite,” “I love their accents,” or “surely the miserable summer weather is just exaggerated to give people things to talk about”.
Tag: british summer
(Common Swift screaming party at dusk, July 17th 2014 – In the Netherlands.)
It’s definitely looking like summer now. This is the first day I have noticed the swifts coming back here.
No good videos of them here, but screaming party is a good description 😉 They tend to be very active at dusk, with all the bugs out to swoop after. But they’ve been screaming around the neighborhood all afternoon. The noise gets annoying sometimes with my hyperacusis, but they’re still really interesting to watch. Glad to get them snapping up some of the mosquitoes, too.
We at least used to have some nesting under the eaves at the front of our house. Plenty of good sites for them around.
I was actually just commenting to Mr. C last night that it was kind of surprising I hadn’t heard any yet this year near us. They’re hard to miss. So, pretty sure there are a few swooping around out there this morning! Presumably with more joining them soon.
Though, looking now, the OP was from 8 May last year. They are a few weeks later here this time. Typically, “They arrive in the UK in the last week of April or early May, and stay only long enough to breed.” Maybe they weren’t so sure they’d be very welcome either, with the way things have been going 🙄
And the screaming party is starting up for the summer here today, again a bit later in May than I would have expected.
A bit startling at first as they swoop past, but glad to see them.
british summer is here.
[rain pouring] [thunder rumbling] [car horn blaring]
“go on. wheyyyyyyy!! Oh no.”
[in distance: “YOU IDIOT”, uproarious laughter]
“why would you go through that. what are you doing. ahhh no, he’s actually floating!”
“well of course he is. what a fucking bellend!”
“what a knobhead!”
“fucking hell.”
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