Met Office Suggest What To Do On A Sunny Day!
By Paul Homewood
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/get-ready-for-summer
What on earth does this have to do with the Met Office?
According to their website:
The Met Office’s ‘Get Ready for the Great British Summer‘ web pages are full of ideas, useful tips and information aimed at helping you make the most of the summer holidays, whatever the weather. You can choose activities that suit your mood – whether you want to relax, be active, explore or entertain. You can also find a wide range of unique information varying from places to visit, to fun activities and even top beach safety tips.
Once on the site, you can select various options, such as “Relaxing on a sunny day”. And guess what useful tips they have for you?
If you’ve spent the spring and early summer slaving over your lawn and borders, decking and patio furniture, you may want to reap the rewards now the sun is up. A big umbrella for your deck chair and a small one – if that’s your preference – for the long, iced drink at your side.
For those without a garden, a beer garden or the local park could be the perfect destination. At a park, where there’s room to spread out a big rug, you could pack a hamper and a cool box, and bring your family and friends, children and pets. Or just a good, not-too-taxing book, some sun lotion and a broad-brimmed hat.
The lido – originally a 1930s breed of outdoor municipal swimming pool – has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years, giving a lucky few the chance to splash in cool water while you’re at the park.
Summer brings relaxing, high-quality entertainment to many of Britain’s public spaces. Whether that means the full music festival experience or just a picnic afternoon listening to a classical concert in the grounds of a castle or stately home, there are few more relaxing ways to enjoy the best of summer.
On the other hand, you might want to “Explore on a rainy day”!
Even if it’s pouring outside, there are places to explore that will keep you dry, or let you dry off. Old or interesting town centres, museums, galleries, arts centres and historic homes – all offer partial or complete protection from the elements.
There may be any number of more child-friendly local attractions. Is there a prehistoric cavern nearby, an aquarium or a local farm with an animal petting zone? History is being more effectively brought to life all the time; perhaps there’s a historic centre near you that will take you and your family back to the past, just for the afternoon.
If you have effective waterproofs, the rain need not be a problem, especially where children are concerned. As long as you’re away from busy roads, walking in the rain can be fun. Or make a virtue of the weather by getting even wetter. Explore local parks and forests, take water pistols and other squirters, divide into teams and draw the family battle lines…
Of course, if you want to be on the safe side and not rely too much on the Met Office forecasts, you can always put your wellies on and read a book in the greenhouse!
Relax on a mixed day
In changeable weather, you can occupy the margin between inside and out.
In general, young children are so interested in what they’re doing that they don’t notice the weather. Once you’ve got them into splash-suits or something similar, you can take them for a stroll in the park or woods and let them get wet and muddy collecting leaves or jumping in puddles, and enjoying whatever the weather throws at them.
Visits to farm shop cafés or garden centres can be absorbing pursuits during changeable weather. And if you have a garden or greenhouse at home, you may want to take advantage of the occasional cover while you tend your plants. Hardy outdoor plants love mixed weather and they’ll grow fast in a combination of rain and sunshine. However, weeds love it too, so a spot of gentle clearing may be in order.
Relaxing with a book, listening to the radio or watching TV in a conservatory or gazebo gives you the best of both worlds: it looks like you’re outside, feels like you’re inside. The natural light makes it a great place for children’s puzzles or games, too. Perhaps you can all pile in there and chill out together.
And we pay our taxes to fund this nonsense!
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
This is how I spend my time on sunny days – reading articles like this which make me laugh alot:
https://www.newsday.co.zw/2014/08/18/ebola-outbreak-climate-change-blame/
Idiots
They have too many people sitting in offices with nothing to do except churn out something (anything) to occupy their time.
They then get substantial government backed pensions which the rest of us pay for until they die.
Please do not dismiss this and its like as the nonsense it seems to be at first sight.
This has been produced with top level support and is just a small part of the campaign to micromanage family life and, eventually, colonise it.
It will be followed by research to establish the profiles of non-compliant families and by measures to change their attitudes to life.
Ultimately those who do not respond appropriately will be designated sociopaths or worse and their children cared for by the state or by NGOs consisting of experts in child management.
Recognise it for what it is – Agenda 21!
I think this may be an example of “nudging”.
Haha, gotta love the warped positivity: ‘Listen, 2.3 kids, it’s peeing down outside. Don your effective waterproofs, load up the Squeezy bottles and let’s go visit UnderwasserVorld and collect some sodden leafs. That’s ‘sodden’, Procrastinata and Germaine, in the adjective. No tittering.’
Many thanks, Paul, for the ever insightful.
The Met Office has got a very bad dose of corporatism, just take at a look at its Corporate Responsibility Report, reads like a pitch to be part of World Govt, in conjunction with the BBC and the Royal Society:
Click to access 10_0070_Corporate_Resp_Report_150.pdf
Yes, Mikky, the Corporate Report reads like it is part of Agenda 21
Like the reaction to Climate Change, some people have to be seen to ‘do something’, simply to justify their wages.