Driftin Away

Driftin' Away

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The mind's nostalgic trips to searingly hot summers of years gone by tend to centre on endless idyllic days, where the air was filled with the tantalising aroma of sausages and steaks sizzling on charcoal on back garden barbecues.

Where the cloudless blue sky seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see for weeks. Where happiness came in the shape of an ice-cream from a Mr Whippy or a Mr Softee van. Or from a Blue Nun wine bottle.

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And where hosepipe bans gave indolent husbands an excuse to leave the lawnmower in the shed. But what is often conveniently edited out of the fantasy flashbacks to the supposedly halcyon high seasons are the less-tropical truths of quiet retreats on the beach, or in the park, ruined by music blaring from ghetto-blasters and their forerunners, or tempers rising with the temperatures in overheated traffic jams on the way to the coast.

Today, as in the past, the blistering, oven-like conditions are invariably greeted with complaints from sweating cynics who bemoan the fact that "it's too bloody hot". And there's no arguing that, in the current heatwave, sleep has become an elusive dream for thousands of people who just aren't used to being so hot in bed, so to speak.

The sale of fans has reportedly reached fever pitch in Belfast, as have flaming rows over whether or not Northern Ireland is experiencing a sultry spin-off from global warming. But the popular notion that every summer in the old days was a scorcher like is hit and myth, unsupported by the cold facts.

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Many people in Northern Ireland will instantly tell you that the summers of and were unforgettably marvellous The long hot summers of the Troubles sometimes saw rioters taking advantage of the rising mercury to create an even more terrifying climate of fear that lasted longer than it might have done in the rain. And the sight of water cannons trundling into position to try to take the heat out of disturbances at the likes of Drumcree, or Belfast's Woodvale Road, was often applauded by troublemakers who appeared to welcome the chance to cool down. A detailed analysis of statistics from Armagh Observatory, where they've been keeping records on the weather since , shows that , , and and were among the best summers ever experienced here.

And there were heatwaves - defined as a stretch of consecutive days where temperatures went above 25 degrees - in , , and But, of course, there's no pleasing fair-weather Ulster folk. After three blistering summers in a row in the mids, the following year was a major let-down and people were insisting that they hadn't had a decent summer in years. But never letting the facts get in the way of a good reminisce, people of a certain age still argue that there was wall-to-wall summer sunshine as they were growing up in the s and s.

Nobody will ever shake me from my certainty that my childhood holidays in Newcastle, Co Down, were all idyllic, as I and my siblings played football round the clock on a stoneless beach where rain never stopped play. Congrats on your default degree. Wading into adulthood, it is tempting to drift along in contented apathy.

Driftin' Away

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