In the UK, to compensate for the usual dreary Summers and to kid ourselves into some sort of misguided belief, we would always hope and sometimes believe that we were going to have an Indian Summer. People would gossip about it on the streets, "I definitely heard it on the news", some would say and we would all long for that late Summer sunshine, when the temperatures would soar and produce a hot September and October. I can't remember it ever happening in Britain, but it seems to be happening to some extent this year in BC. The temperatures forecast for this week are the hottest all year and in a delicious twist of irony, it just so happens to be the week the kids go back to school.
