DO people handle the weather a lot better than I do, or does Britain’s rain and sun movement have the same temperament as a child?

One minute it is absolutely tipping it down with rain, thunder, and whatever else it can throw from the sky, and the next it is blazing hot, and I’m getting sunburnt through an umbrella.

This could be likened to the mood of a child - one minute they’re all happy and in the park on the swings having the time of their life, then, all of a sudden, the dreaded ice cream van turns up, you don’t have any change so you hope that the music just isn’t that loud and that maybe your child will just not notice, but, oh no, of course they do.

That’s when all hell breaks lose, and the storm starts, because you say no to buying an ice cream.

For me there has been little to no transition between winter and summer.

The weather didn’t gradually warm up from having to dither under my 13.5 tog quilt with my teddy bear onesie on, to having to walk around my house in next to nothing and buy a 4.5 tog quilt to swap my winter quilt with and still have trouble sleeping underneath it.

One day I need to wear a coat, and the next I can barely stand to wear a short-sleeved dress.

I had the heating on a couple of weeks ago, and now I’ve effectively worn my fans out.

But in TV programmes or movies I watch, I don’t see anyone else with this problem.

There was one episode of Friends when Rachel complained about it being 100F outside, but other than that, the weather appears to change with the seasons when they’re supposed to.

Autumn comes, turning leaves amber and brown and jackets start to come out, then winter, frosting the branches of those trees when coats, hats, gloves, and scarves get put on, until it’s springtime and little buds make their appearance on branches and the coats go away and the jackets are back on, and then it’s summer and of course, it’s sunny again and we can be comfortable in a t-shirt of whatever our fashion choices.

Does this happen in other countries and our climate is just riddled ridiculously, or is this really a “perfect” vision of what we think it should be like, the same way we look at size 0 models, six packs on men, and poreless skin on women?

All those things also appear on our television, newspapers, and magazines, but that’s not the norm.

The norm for a woman in this day and age is a size 16 and wearing whatever foundation you can afford for a fiver from Boots.

I need to look at the weather like I do my looks - it’s not what I’d like to look like but I have adapted.

Hopefully I’ll adapt to the heat and/or rain, snow, hail, when it happens, rather than wishing to change it.