Day to Day happenings in my life

July

Day 3537 June 28, 2024
“July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden.” ~ Jean Hershey. What's your favorite pleasure in July?

When I was born, July was all those things mentioned in the prompt, because I arrived into the world in July1944 in the Northern Hemisphere.
It was the long school holidays too and playing with my brothers and friends all day long. Games of cricket which lasted for what seemed too long as this child would be sent to retrieve cricket balls hit too hard into the neighbour’s garden.
The evenings were long too the sun loathe to leave the sky, and at bedtime there was still daylight.

But now July is in the middle of winter here in the southern hemisphere. People have Christmas in July parties simply so they can have dinner by the fire!
My birthday falls on the nineteenth and it’s too cold to have any celebrations outside, so we usually go to the pub and have lunch and a hot toddy.

So I’ve experienced both summer and winter birthdays but many more winter ones having left the UK at twenty eight years of age. But even so I remember my summer birthdays the best, especially the first ten.