Prolonged British summers. Do they exist?

In my 25 years on this earth, I've never known nice weather to last all summer long. I was just wondering if anyone can recall a summer where it has been nice all year long? Also how is this growing season measuring up to others, good? bad?

 

Off to a late start because of one of the coldest springs on record or something, then the sun came out with a vengeance and put all the plants into survival mode, where they close all the pores in their leaves and effectively go to sleep in order to save water.

 

In my 33 years I can't recall a long summer, albeit when you're a kid you think summer lasts AGES, Wagon Wheels and Mars bars were bigger then they are now, and school holidays never lasted long enough The growing season for me seems to be short a month

 

1976 springs to mind, but I was 11 then so maybe it just seemed longer

 

no need to apologise wiseowl, sounds like some nice memories of a better time.

 

I'd just turned 2 year old by the summer of 1976 when my dad decided it would be a good idea to go on a long walk in the countryside with me in my push chair and not enough to drink. Apparently I became so dehydrated and poorly that my dad had to use water from a ditch first to try to cool me, and then for me to drink. Remember there were no mobile phones to call for help then, so if you were 5 miles from the nearest village payphone and there's no traffic about, you have to improvise. My mam still thinks my dad was grossly irresponsible (he was a young dad and made an erroneous judgement), but it must have been a very difficult decision. Give your 2 year old son potentially filthy water to drink, or do nothing knowing he is dehydrating. I don't envy him having to make that choice, but it seems it was the right one, I'm still here

 

Eek! It was the right decision, better a dicky tummy than anything worse than that!

 

Could have been in the same spaceship as my wife. I know my wife is new to this earth. I understand people, I don't understand my wife.

 

1976 was a scorcher. I was 25 and working at British Leyland . It was so hot on a factory floor,so I went on regular night shift because it was cooler. And I didn't really like shift work !

 

Never known a scorcher like this one in my 26 years!

If my old man was on here (and could use the internet proficiently) he'd regale you with many stories from the 70's, mentally I think he's still there. Blummin' hippy!

Everything sounds great back then, just walk in to a job, everything was cheaper and the law was a clip round the ear. What happened...?