Summer here in Aberdeenshire I'm quite tanned/pink from topless roofing, being closer to the sun makes all the difference .
We've had a couple of years in the time up here where it seemed there was no summer, hay lost, constant mud, one afternoon I sat in the steading looking out at the rain hammering down in the company of the garden birds and the swallows, lots of despondent faces that day, lots of water came off the fields and the house got a bit of a flood.... and we are on a slope ! currants , We gave the birds seeds , mealworms and currants ( The blackbirds take them from the hand )