thoughts of summer, may I add

when you talk to people who hail from sunnier climes, and you ask them if they ever miss, you know, the seasons, and they look blankly at you?

In the immortal words of Ray Davies:

Tea and toasted buttered currant buns,
can't compensate for lack of sun,
'cause the summer's all gorn...

...has lived in L.A. for about fifteen years, and she misses grey English days and Tesco like you wouldn't believe. As Randy Newman, master of pop irony, put it:

Everybody's very happy/'Cos the sun is shining all the time

This is one of my current favourites: