Summer is coming!!!

A.W.U.K.

A.W.U.K.

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May was a lovely month. Sulphur-yellow rape in the fields, bluebells in the hedgerows, cowslips on the verges, white clouds in the sky, distributing, erm, some rain.

Now it's warming up, 23 degrees C this afternoon! At this time of year, I love living round here.

(how do you know it's summer in England? The rain isn't so cold)

How's the weather with everyone else?

Andy
 
89º F and dry. Not as muggy as the other day and not a cloud in the sky. :)
 
Stupid weather ... it's June and it's friggin chilly all over Europe. Temperature outside was 4 degrees Centigrade (that's ~39 degrees for Fahrenheit-lovin' readers) this very morning and the weather forecast says it might be even colder tomorrow :confused: It should be somewhere around 30 deg C (85+ deg F) though.
 
Thank God it has cooled down here (anything over 80 is living hell for me) , cloudy today and about 72 degrees.
I love it and hope it keeps up thru summer. :p
 
faramir said:
Stupid weather ... it's June and it's friggin chilly all over Europe. Temperature outside was 4 degrees Centigrade (that's ~39 degrees for Fahrenheit-lovin' readers) this very morning and the weather forecast says it might be even colder tomorrow :confused: It should be somewhere around 30 deg C (85+ deg F) though.
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You guys were living in Hell on Earth last year! I'm guessing you're not on the Meditarrenean[sic]. I prefer the temperature to be between 65 and 75 degrees farenheit. Today it's crested over 90 degrees F! If you Maryland boys see a pile of goo on the road, it's me. I MELTED!
 
Svmer Is Icumen In

Svmer is icumen in
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweþ sed and bloweþ med
and springþ þe wde nu.
Sing cuccu!

Awe bleteþ after lomb,
lhouþ after calue cu,
Bulluc sterteþ, bucke uerteþ.
Murie sing cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu,
Wel singes þu cuccu.
ne swik þu nauer nu!
Sing cuccu nu, Sing cuccu!

{Pes}
Sing cuccu, Sing cuccu nu!

And in relatively modern English:

Summer is a-coming in
Loudly sing cuckoo
Groweth seed and bloweth mead
and springs the wood anew
Sing cuckoo!

Ewe bleateth aft-er lamb,
Calf loweth after cow,
Bullock starteth, buck farteth,
Merry sing cuckoo!
Cuckoo, cuckoo!
Well singest thou cuckoo,
Nor cease thou never now!
Sing cuckoo now, Sing cuckoo!

{Foot (or Bass)}
Sing cuckoo, Sing cuckoo now!

Notes: This song is remarkable for being ahead of its time. It is a cannon in four parts sung over a two part "foot" or bass line, itself a cannon in two parts. This makes the whole song a polyphonic composition in six parts at a time when the most "advanced" music was in two or three part polyphony. The music with performance instructions was in a manuscript, originally in Reading Abbey.

http://www.pteratunes.org.uk/Music/Music/Lyrics/summerisicumenin.html

That strange letter, (þ), is called an "eth" and is a holdover into Old English from Anglo-Saxon and is pronounced as "th".
 
Ok Hugh, how did you get "eth" to appear? :)

The song was in a history book I had as a kid. It was written during the "Twelfth Century Renaissance", a period of advance in learning and the arts, before the maelstrom of the late Middle Ages.

Andy.
 
today it was arround 70 and storming like a mofo, the wind was blowing stuff all over the place. I hate storms...
 
This has been the nicest spring in the interior of Alaska since I moved here 25 years ago.It did not get below freezing in May .I believe this is a record. It is supposed to get up to 80F tomorrow and with the nearly 24 hours daylight the gardens are doing great..
Last summer over 6 million acres burned in the interior last year the conditions are perfect for the harvesting of morel mushrooms.

http://www.arcticcam.com/cam.html
 
We had a cool, wet spring. The last couple of weeks it has gotten hot, into the low 80s, too hot for me. And still raining. The water level in the creeks and rivers is up pretty high.
 
A.W.U.K. said:
how did you get "eth" to appear?.
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Hold down the "Alt" key and type 0222 on the numeric pad on the right of the keyboard:

Þ

It's known as the "thorn" character.

maximus otter
 
A.W.U.K. said:
At this time of year, I love living round here.
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Birmingham? Birmingham?

SpaghettiJunction.jpg


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;)

maximus otter
 
maximus otter said:
Birmingham? Birmingham?

;)

maximus otter
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Yeah, but the sun's shining, that's the main thing!!
:)

sutton5.jpg

The Roman road in Sutton park
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Rure in urbs? Kings Norton Green.
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The Two Towers, Sandyman's mill and the Old Forest.
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Matthew Boulton's house, Joseph Priestley's house

http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/images/nfield/northfield.jpg
http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/images/yardley/chchurchsnow_small.jpg
http://www.picturesofengland.com/pictures/250/Aston_Hall_1109266169.jpg
http://www.bplphoto.co.uk/F22/CDF22-09/Photos/INTBigJPEG/F22-078.JPG
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/content/images/2004_2203.JPG
http://www.birmingham-photos.co.uk/images/Cal2000/JPG/OldCrowni.jpg
http://www.ewgreen.org.uk/drgs-a-h/druids-1.jpg
http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/images/bville/sellymanor.jpg
http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/images/bville/ahs_maypole.jpg
http://www.nb-swallow.co.uk/images/06_2005-04-30_1833sm.jpg
http://www.nb-swallow.co.uk/images/05_2005-04-30_1654sm.jpg

Andy.

Ps. Yes, all these photos were taken in Birmingham! It just depends where you look. Birmingham covers 252 square miles, after all.
 
I received an email from Esav correcting me on the "Þ" and on the use of the word "cannon" to describe the type of song structure. He sat that the proper name for that symbot was "thorn" and that the song structure is called a "canon". Well, I will take the blame for the mistake on the symbol, but the structure name was the doing of the author of the web page and I am not sufficiently familiar with music structure to critique the commentary. i put it in as I thought that it might interest those who, like me, learned the song in school as a simple round. For a simple round, think three groups singing "Row, row, row your boat" with each group starting their verse as the group ahead finished the first sentence.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
You guys were living in Hell on Earth last year! I'm guessing you're not on the Meditarrenean[sic]. I prefer the temperature to be between 65 and 75 degrees farenheit. Today it's crested over 90 degrees F! If you Maryland boys see a pile of goo on the road, it's me. I MELTED!
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Me, I like warmth. Not the unbearable heat but 25 degrees Centigrade at the very least. 30 is totally fine (that's a tad more than 85 F) and up to 35 degrees or so in shadow is perfectly bearable. I hate cold weather :grumpy:

The part where I live has continental/mountaneous climate (weather). This is supposed to mean relatively cold winters and moderately hot/cool summers. Weather yesterday wa not cool, it was darn chilly. Stupid weather :barf:
 
Bah.

You only have to mention the word "barbeque" for the clouds to start coming over :grumpy:

Andy
 
Mexico city highs close to 90 F, lows around 55 F, the thermometer in my bedroom shows about 90 F at night, not comfortable for me at all. Rainy season should be here soon and it will cool off a bit.

Luis
 
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