Dressing Up for an English Summer Barbecue

We went to a barbecue last week. It was already July, remember? Mid-summer. I wore, on top of my underclothes:

- a vest
- a polo-necked jumper
- a winter-weight cosy jumper
- thick socks
- and to top it all off, this ...

I was – just about – warm enough.

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Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

62 thoughts on “Dressing Up for an English Summer Barbecue”

  1. I don’t really want to ‘like’ this post if you see what I mean! My Yorkshire pal, also Margaret, has been keeping me in the picture about your weather although ours isn’t much better. Looks better after Wednesday but it always seems to be jam tomorrow with my weather app.

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    1. Grr. All the same, mustn’t grumble. It was Ripon Theatre Festival at the weekend with lots of street entertainment planned. The forecast was appalling – but the sun shone almost every minute.

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  3. same here, except on a ‚lighter‘ scale. I bought, for the first time since my return to my native Switzerland, a season ticket for our little ‚strand beach pool‘, where you can (could) swim in a pool or in our little lake. I was ONCE there so far. Seems pretty expensive and investment! Had however already one BBQ and will/should have another one on Friday to come…. I have my thermals ready!

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  6. The cold wind keep blowing up is really making me quite bad tempered. I, too, am still in winter layers, and we had to light the fire again last night. Sunshine this morning though, albeit with a lot of cloud 🌤️

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  7. You’ve gone all ‘Southern Softie’. That sort of behaviour could get you expelled from Yorkshire!

    I’m still proudly (stupidly?) in my shorts, just like the postman.

    Kevin

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  11. Don’t complain! We have a kind of heat wave coming up this week (finally ?-!) and I have a cold, hanging around at home, nursing a sore throat, a cough and a running nose.

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    1. Not me. I thought Grimsby was in Yorkshire, but it turns out not . But it still qualifies as ‘up North’, where it’s ‘grim’.

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  17. Oh dear…good old British summer weather. Well done for getting all those layers on..I agree that it’s nice to be surprised if the weather is better than you imagine, rather than be disappointed.

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  18. I layered up too for our visit to Wimbledon today. We had tickets for Court Two which has no roof and the forecast was depressing – 75% chance of rain! But we had a lucky escape as there were only a very few spots and we saw three full matches. Just the same, I needed my warmer clothes 😀

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