'So what?', I hear you cry. Well, as a little brown person, it's quite an achievement, I can tell you! I've been pottering around on me little balcony for a good few hours, sorting me plants out, and generally chilling. I have a definite redness on me back, and one shoulder (due to being in one position for most of the time). It's been up to 40 deg C today, in the sun! Lovely!
Who's gone and overdone it? Any tales of pain and suffering? Anyone disappointed they've not picked up the colour they thought they deserved?
I'm quite surprised, as it's still just only May, and we have the hottest months still to come, supposedly.
Ooh, tingly!
One of the chaps was a guy I knew at Uni, he had been over from Nigeria for 2 or 3 years but was still very dark to my eye. He'd spent the day on a beach on the coast near Liverpool and had acquired a nice tinge of red to his brown. As you say, I was under the impression that naturally darker skin would be near impossible to burn in the UK.
