A minor rain shower has just had bare-legged, flip-flopped, T-shirted and unjacketed people scurrying for shelter.

How did we lose our abilty to dress for the expected weather?

Its a transitional period. Its always a quandry what to wear…

Yet the same people, usually teenagers, who wear nothing on their legs then suddenly wear fleecy hoodies, with the hood up, when there is hardly a coolness in the air. How will they cope when it gets properly cold?

Autumn?

bare-legged, flip-flopped, T-shirted

you’re not Yorkshire are you… Its 3 layers and the central heating on here at the moment. We do get Autumn, It lasts from June to December…

Bare legs and flip flops are ace in the wet.

I’m in the southern version of Yorkshire – West Sussex.

A minor rain shower has just had bare-legged, flip-flopped, T-shirted and unjacketed people scurrying for shelter.

Tsk! First years

Yet the same people, usually teenagers, who wear nothing on their legs then suddenly wear fleecy hoodies, with the hood up, when there is hardly a coolness in the air. How will they cope when it gets properly cold?

Do you live near a university? There seems to be an amazing number of students that wear flip flops and board shorts into the early winter (we are at least 60 miles from the nearest coast) and then equally confusingly also wear their wooly smurf hats right through the Summer.

I did have a theory that they are all foreign students from the southern hemisphere that got caught out by the change but there’s just too many of them for that to hold true.

*re-arranges knackers in Speedo’s, tilts sombraro to a slightly jauntier angle*

People change their clothes throughout the year?

I wear shorts 11 months out of 12

Are you my postman?

It’s not autumn for another week or so.

Cue WhenDoesAutumnActuallyStart Argument!

Metrological autumn started on September the 1st.

It’s not autumn for another week or so

and yet …

This weekend ,it’s winter bike out and summer bike away time.
Drag the minky roubaix winter riding gear out of the attic,and pack away all the good stuff. 🙂

autumn? im still waiting for summer?!

binners – Member
*re-arranges knackers in Speedo’s, tilts sombraro to a slightly jauntier angle*

ohnohesback – Member
Are you my postman?

😯

Since when do we believe a thing meteorologists say in this country?

Maybe this will help…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19584302

I thought it had been Autumn since March….

Astronomically the autumn equinox happens on September 22nd at 14:48:55.4 UTC

I’ve gone for a compromise flip-flops and jeans and am more worried about which tyres to use this weekend….

It has been British Shorts Time since 25th March, it’s still British Shorts Time until 28th October.

And I went swimming outside yesterday, that’s how balmy it was here in Derbyshire.*

Joe

* actually it was 11 degrees air temperature, and the lake was blooming freezing, took a bit of time to work myself up to getting in once I’d put my speedos and goggles on!

yes, they begin to smell if you wear them for long enough. Shirts get changed every couple of days, underwear daily at least, Jeans might get two or three weeks use if I don’t spill anything

Some people just don’t get autumn, do they?

You are correct. Mainly people who live close to the equator

Still t shirt and shorts in surrey.
As an aside the ladies are breaking out the ugg boots and leggings.
For gods sake will you at least try and look a bit elegant this winter. I enjoyed seeing the ladies in their summer dresses but the above mentioned, slung on with a hoodie really says I am f..king lazy and don’t give a s..t.
Lets go back to the 60s when people knew how to dress.
Rant over.

I wear shorts pretty much all the time,oop north as well, dont really do cold,plus ("knackers")brilliant word beautifully used Binners I salute you 😆

As an aside the ladies are breaking out the ugg boots and leggings. For gods sake will you at least try and look a bit elegant this winter.

Blimey! Compared to round here, that sounds like spending 3 hours in make-up. Ugg boots are traditionaly paired with some form of pink furry pyjamas, a pram-face and 20 lambert and butler

Ugg boots = Australian slippers

Why on earth do people think these are suitable for outdoor use in winter??

bare-legged, flip-flopped, T-shirted and unjacketed people

These people are the optimists of our society, an Indian summer is going to happen in their minds.

Whereas I am sat in a nuclear bunker, wrapped up in layers of sheep skin and blankets.

Our postie managed to wear shorts throughout the whole year, even in quite deep snow (well for this country anyway) and -7.
No ugg boots or flipflops though.

GrahamS – Member
Ugg boots = Australian slippers

Why on earth do people women think these are suitable for outdoor use in winter??

Because they are mad!

you’re not Yorkshire are you… Its 3 layers and the central heating on here at the moment.

Neither are you then – you must just be living here. If you are *from* Yorkshire you’d still be in a teeshirt come December.

Ugg boots = Australian slippers

Australian Slapper slippers

Neither are you then – you must just be living here. If you are *from* Yorkshire you’d still be in a teeshirt come December.

Oh its a Yorkshire off is it???

Hubberholme Rules or are we playing by the Whitby Charter? 🙂

😀