Summer time, and London living is easy

Ok ok, setting aside the overheated Tube, swarms of tourists getting in the way and rain threatening ambitious weekend plans, there is something undeniably magic about summer in London.

I’m sure that summer in many cities is great. It’s just that there is something special that happens to London when the sun starts shining (a bit) and the sky stays strangely blue until after 9pm.

People become happier, more willing to meet up, go out on a midweek evening, hit the park after work. The weekend is lengthened as it becomes possible to do something fun and fulfilling on a Sunday evening – dare I say that having a few pints becomes more acceptable and the hangover less hard to bear.

Britain’s prestigious ability to invent new sports also gets in to full flow. Last night while jogging in Wandsworth Common I spotted a group of lads playing what appeared to be touch American Football with a Frisbee.

Maybe it’s only northern European cities, so cloaked in darkness over winter, that explode into life when the light finally comes. I’m not sure what it is but I’d love to know another city on earth that transforms itself so much between the depths of winter and the height of summer.

Here’s to a long London summer!