Comments on: London Life, Californian Weather

By: EllenRonnie

EllenRonnie — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:02:57 +0000

Wendy,
After living in L.A. for 12 years, I’m now in upstate NY, I can tell you that seasons are overrated. We had six months of winter, and now a brutal hot, humid summer. I miss the 5-day forecast being exactly the same. I also loved how the temps dropped considerably once you left the Valley and entered the Westside. Sigh…I miss L.A.

By: webmacher

webmacher — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:59:33 +0000

Hot weather? in San Francisco? Hahahahaha. I’m not being fair. It occasionally does get sunny and hot, but we’ve had a lot of damp fog this “summer”! (The central valley and SoCal are another story, of course.)

By: lemonbaden

lemonbaden — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:01:54 +0000

O! I love English weather! I love the fact that it’s all misty and damp and freezing in July- far more atmospheric than the awful muggy heat we get here in summer instead. When it’s cold and rainy I can put on my big boots and go outside (only my bog boots) and get things DONE. When it’s all moist and melty nobody can do anything. I’ve never been to California and actually the thought of the hot weather puts me off!

By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:35:51 +0000

I’m a Brit living in California. I do prefer the weather here, although I do miss having “seasons”.

By: Mrs. Hawkins

Mrs. Hawkins — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:36:33 +0000

I love to travel and have tried living abroad for a few years, but it’s always nice to come back home to the Bay Area. Fog in the morning, sun in the afternoon, and then fog in the evenings. I love it! You rarely have a night in the summer when you need to roll around trying to find a cool spot on the bed.
The wine country in the fall during the crush, ooohhhh. The wine country in the spring when the mustard grows between the rows of vines, ooohhh. The wine country in the winter when very few people are around and you have tasting rooms all to yourself (well, maybe a few other people), ooohhh.

By: WestonSuperAmanda

WestonSuperAmanda — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:57:27 +0000

That “anti Zionist Mosque building paleo conservative Gordon Brown” thing was just a joke.

By: WestonSuperAmanda

WestonSuperAmanda — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:56:00 +0000

Ah yes, hitting the wall that is London. It should not be that way but usually hits. I say it should not be so because you really do feel like on an island people are supposed to stick together but now they are sticking to their home fixtures and remodels and anyone not making masses of pounds will be driven away or forced to stay in cohabitation with one’s ex. And here I am an American in London because I think it’s a place of fortune!!Once upon a time I was falling in love and now I’m only falling over Lambeth Council’s idea of proper side walks. Had my London melt down a few days ago, usually hits after two months away from California where I grew up in a small city called Piedmont in the Bay Area. It’s a tony place surrounded entirely by a Pixar generated force field designed to keep out most blacks in the neighbourhing city of Oakland, all Muslims and now that raving anti Zionist Mosque building paleo conservative Gordon Brown. Piedmont is also known for the Leonard J Waxdeck bird calling contest and acorner shop that sells Ben and Jerry’s marked up to 6$. I was big hit in the storied hills of Piedmont with my rastaman vibration jacket, marshmallow eating scrub jay, Python quotes and 38.7 inch bust line as a tween. I recently read an Oliver Reed bio and “discovered” Michael Winner so when I read in today’s’ paper that he had teamed up with you Mr. Cleese, on a Mr. Toad’s wild “It’s Tuesday it must be Xanax and Châteauneuf-du-Pape” road trip I had to extend to you my best wishes and love. You influence my every move on you tube and all my loyal subsribers realize that…I’m tall, ariticulate and buxom just like you and I think the world should be easy which means I’m usually pissed off. When you see a chance take, it when you find romance fake it, because it’s all on you. I belive in that statement and wish you all the best again and again.

By: emenzies

emenzies — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:28:27 +0000

When you coming back to SB? Missing your “tallness” about town.

By: kisch

kisch — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:48:02 +0000

Huh, coming from the North-West of Russia, I can only praise London weather ! :-)))) When I come to London in March and there is green grass, flowers and sunshine… and in my home city we still have snow… I would die in California, I can’t stand the heat.

By: robertas

robertas — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:16:29 +0000

I do not think I could ever get tired of London.

And I don’t even mind the weather.

That might have something to do with the fact I spent 3 months studying in Birmingham… for the first 3 weeks it didn’t stop raining… not a drizzle or spitty spotty rain but a full-on proper gale. Once my body finally adjusted and near suicidal thoughts have been banished (that also might have something to do with the fact I was permanently hungry because food was for the lack of a better word crap) I was fine.
I even refused to purchase an umbrella

Now that I come to think of it, we did go down the pub an awful lot, so maybe I did not really adjust, it was just copious amounts of alcohol …

Hm, Mr. Cleese as an Englishman maybe you can answer my question, because I asked my foreign friends and they did not know how to explain it…

Is English weather the reason why when you come to warmer parts you lay in the sun in the middle of the day like lizards?

I tried to explain to my friend he should really use a sunblock but he refused… and went to the beach at 1:00pm when even lizards look for some shade