Summer arrives; we have a garden!

Dear MHers,

Hope all is good at your various Houses.

I for sure know that the MH team in sunny Santa Barbara dont appreciate what it is for a London summer to arrive, and probably neither do most of you.

In England we sit through rain, sleet, drizzle, showers (when a culture has a lot of something they create lots of names for it, apparently eskimos have many names for snow), sleet, snow, darkness at 4pm, grey clouds, freezing cold, for at least 6 months a year. Then for a couple of months the sun plays games, appears for half an hour here, half an hour there, pokes its head between the clouds momentarily, promising to deliver its marvellous rays, before reminding us that summer is not yet upon us.

Then sometime in early June (last year it was April somehow, but that month was the entire summer), the sun decides to hang around a bit more, a couple of hours and people (especially overweight, tatooed men) start taking their clothes off and acting as though we are in the South of France. Then just as we are getting to enjoy it we are reminded how fragile life can be, as the rain turns up for a few days (Mon and Tue this week).

Finally in late June the sun decides to pay us a permenant visit for a month or two and that is our entire summer that we have been waiting for.

Anyway, it looks as though summer is almost with us again and Moishe House London have rediscovered they have a garden, most of us literally didnt step foot in it for 6 months. We are making the most of it. We had a bonfire last week, lunch in the garden last weekend and the socer ball has emerged. Dan even slept out there for a few hours recently.

But who knows when it might end, the gloominess returns and the garden once again becomes a barren wasteland. Until then we will make the most of it, and hold our heads up high that wee have sun justl ike all the other Moishe Houses.

Best

Gideon