[HPFGU-OTChatter] Sweaters in Summertime

[Mrs. Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force)]

[Emily]:
| Hey, a question for my British friends,
| 
| Whenever I watch any of the HP movies, except maybe this last one 
| where they make a big deal about the drought, I always wonder, do 
| people in the UK really wear long-sleeve shirts and sweaters in July 

[Lee]:
Back in August of 1979, I hosted a couple of pen friends, one from
Birmingham and the other from Radcliffe-On-Trent, Nottingham.  My mother,
two brothers and I took them on a long walk through our favorite park and,
when we started out, we of the US were in shorts and short-sleeve shirts
while my British friends wore (and this is no joke) long-sleeve Denim
jackets and one actually had a scarf like a muffler around his neck.

Suffice it to say that by the time we finished our close-to-two-hour walk,
the jackets and scarf were playing the role of arm decorations. <Grin>

Air conditioners were almost unknown, to, as they ended up blowing a breaker
by opening up windows to get cool, not realizing that such was the job of
the air conditioner.

It was an interesting two weeks. <Grin>

Cheers,

Lee :-)

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