As we walk the small streets around our little suburb of Clapham Junction I can't get over the amount of trimmed and untamed privet hedges everywhere and they are giving my hay fever a real work out, but it is mid summer here and it just goes to show the difference in our two climates. Back home the privet is dun and dusted by mid spring but here as the temperature are some what milder they flower much much longer, so can't see me living in London the hay fever would do me in big time.
But the other thing that is so different to Aussie is the greyish-blue summer skies, as we sit one day the only clouds that can be seen in the sky are made up from the jet streams that crisscross the sky. I suppose living under a busy flight path what would you expect.
The days are english hot at 26 to 30 deg and back home that would be mid spring temperatures and our sky's at that temperature would be a beaming blue with big white fluffy clouds. I'm sure that it is also a heat and pollution haze but living under the big London sky's is so different to our clean clear sky's that we so enjoy in regional NSW.
How about the brilliant blue skies around Broome where we are at this very minute?
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