Blogue d'un québécois expatrié en Angleterre. Comme toute forme d'autobiographie est constituée d'une large part de fiction, j'ai décidé de nommer le blogue Vraie Fiction.
Saturday, 18 June 2016
Helicopters (a sign of summertime)
The weather may not be really summery these days, but there is a sign that summer is most definitely here: we hear the hums of helicopters flying over here very often these days. Yesterday we had a whole lot of them. I know correlation is not causation, but all the same, I am more aware of helicopters when summer is here. I am not alone: my wife told me yesterday that she had heard them far more recently. I suspect they fly up more often around this time of year. I blogged about helicopters and why I identify them with summertime in 2014. If it is a confirmation bias, I stand by it. But I wonder if my readers hear them and see them more in summertime.
I would guess that living where you do they were heading for Royal Ascot! We get them over us especially around the time of the British Grand Prix as Silverstone is close. I think it's just the proliferation of events in Summer that attract people with the money to travel in helicopters...
ReplyDeleteIt's not just confirmation bias. We live close to an airfield and every late spring the plane and helicopter traffic increases, and it continues throughout the summer.
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