The Antlers

Somebody very annoying once said that “Life is like a rainbow, you need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear”.  Let me tell ya, there are no rainbows here in Edinburgh where the sun is stubbornly refusing to shine through the gloom.  As Bill Bryson once put it “It’s like living inside Tupperware”. 

The Antlers @ Music Hall of Williamsburg from Patrick Duffy on Vimeo.

We are well into summer and it looking like topping out at a balmy 13 degrees today. This is the third consecutive disastrous summer in this part of the world and it’s even testing the patience of the hard-as-f**k Celts. 

I was talking to a friend in Sydney yesterday who was moaning about your gloriously mild winter – it was like complaining to a starving man that there were no petit fours at the end of their five course dinner.

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  • Steve says:

    04:23pm | 22/06/09

    Well into summer? It’s only the second day! The summer solstace marks the start of summer in Britain - most of June is still spring, and rightly so. The weather doesn’t start to warm up until July. You can’t pidgeon hole the seasons as neatly into the months in Europe… Read more »

 

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