Summer in the city - in March?

Well, looks like it's going to be another cracking day, not even half way through March and they are predicting 18 degrees today for London (according to the Metro that is 2.7 degrees hotter than average and even 1.35 degrees hotter than last year)...won't be long and I'll be able to dig the shorts out at this rate! ;)

First BBQ of the year (the standard measure of climate change in the Angel household) for 2005 was the 16th of May (the benchmark year), in 2006 it had slipped to the 29th of April, and honestly, had we not been out in the camper, I think in a sunny sheltered spot in the garden, I would have been content enough to eat outside...yesterday, in fact, on Box Hill, I clocked a group of 4 shirtless young lads lugging 2 cases of Carling with them, heading towards the viewing point, which is really very summery behaviour...it's quite scary though, if in the space of 3 years we have seen such a shrinking of the "BBQ gap" (or "Winter" as it is referred to in some circles), I'm not going to deliberately shrink it, and will wait until conditions are perfect, but right now it's looking like we might be able to shave at least another fortnight off... ;)

Oh, the picture, snapped that from the number 17 bus this morning (click that link if you want to see what the building normally looks like), it's 33 Holborn, or the Sainsbury's store support HQ, sporting a *huge* litho advertising this years Red Nose Day (which I am quite looking forward to), will have to donate some money, all we have done so far is to buy a foul smelling car air freshener ("ungodly fake vanilla stench" I believe it was called, although they obviously forgot to print that on the packet) which promptly got thrown into a sealed box in the back of the camper...better buy some ears or something... ;)