Waking up to the beautiful spring sunshine a local man has made the undeniable observation that “it’s nearly beer garden weather out there” and that people should “start getting excited about summer now”.
“That’s definitely nearly beer garden weather today,” observed 29 year old writer and alcoholic, John Lambkin. “It’s still slightly too cold, but we’re still only a few weeks off from being able to drink outdoors without wearing layers and getting stared at by people walking their dogs.”
“Once the clocks go forward, that’s it, you’ll find me sat on a picnic bench with a cold cider every lunchtime and after work every Friday,” he continued. “I’ll probably be there most of the weekend as well, you have to take advantage of it while it lasts you know.”
John claimed that he, as long as the rest of the country, made the same observation that “the earth was getting warmer for some reason” and that “summer drinking outside of pubs isn’t far off at all” after waking up to glorious sunshine.
“It’ll be when another while before we really notice it,” explained John. “At the moment, yeah it looks nice but you couldn’t be sat out there for too long. Maybe you’d get away with a quick pint in the midday sun, but any more than that and you’d be pushing it.”
John said we won’t really know when it’s beer garden weather until that first warm day of spring “when you can leave the jacket at home and walk around comfortably in just a jumper right into the evening” although you “couldn’t be wearing shorts for a while yet, at least until after you cut the grass for the first time or else you’d be freezing holding a cold pint”.
Having shared his observation with work colleagues and friends it appears that the whole nation is in agreement with John. “Not long now,” agreed John’s friend Sheila. “When the weather comes in I’ll start doing my evening walk with the girls and that’s what’ll decide that it’s beer garden weather for me, not before then.”
“I put it up on Facebook,” concluded John. “And I got almost 40 ‘likes’ and loads of comments excitedly agreeing that the time of year is the same and that the weather is indeed getting better. Most of my friends were saying ‘fuck it, why wait til the weather improves, let’s just sit inside and drink’, so we’re off to the pub now to take advantage of the last few times we can drink around a roaring fire before the poxy weather ruins it.”
