The Tricksy Summer

A tricksy summer and ditsy winds.

Visit collection: Wonderful Britain
Open heath with purple heather, a lone brick observation shelter from world war two stands in the middle of the heath.
Summer had been a bit tricksy The winds had been very ditsy. When autumn thought it had the spot The weather turned incredibly hot The sun opened up the furnace door and out, it’s latent heat did pour. The land, too green to scorch basked under the fiery torch The grass kept growing, We all kept mowing. Summer was finally making a stake With autumn saying hurry up mate, You are out of turn and a tad too late. Feeling pleased with its final fling Summer reluctantly started giving in.
  • The Tricksy Summer
  • Ford, Avon Water
  • New Forest
  • Hampshire UK

You’ve got to love our British weather. After a promising start in June, the summer of 2023 kind of fizzled out in July and August. While we watched the continent bask in outrageously high temperatures, we weathered a much cooler climate with menacing winds fronting rain storms. Then in September, the sun finally decided to give us summer, jammed into the first few weeks of autumn. How crazy was that? We were in the beautiful New Forest camping at the beginning of September when it turned unseasonably hot. Seeking shady spots were the order of the day, the same shady spots coveted by the wise New Forest ponies.