Hello and good afternoon, it’s me your Bearded Captain, leader of all beards and flag bear of beards on digital and broadcasting media.
I am that beard who tries to make people laugh and I am that beard who tries to make people smile.
My Bearded Brothers, I pray you’re well and I pray you’re looking after your beards! My bearded beloved’s, I want to talk about an important issue, the issue of when you know it’s summer.
Now to sate the obvious, you know it’s summer when you look outside, see the sun in the sky and there’s no need to wear a coat.
In the winter, the woolly hats and neck warmers are dusted off but when summer comes, back to the bottom of the draw it goes.
My dear brothers, I want to talk about some subtle signs of when you know it’s summer time.
The first thing that comes to mind for me, is when you hear the melody tune coming from far far away, that sound usually means one thing … an ice cream van! In the winter, they seem like they go into hibernation.
When you sense the temperature outside reaches double figures, rest assured you will hear the melody tune and an engine roaring in the sunset coming into the sun, you will know it’s an ice cream van looking for kids who want ice cream.
I am not talking about, in the back of the van stuff there, just thought I would clarify.
Other signs of the summer is you will see people more happy. Obviously when it’s Christmas time, everyone is beaming on the outside and in, but when it’s summer time .. the happiness is different, it just is.
Men, will be walking around with their t-shirts off and bare chested, sorry let me correct that comment, it usually tends to be the boys who go topless when the temperature reaches double figures.
The men from Newcastle, aren’t afraid to take their shirt off even when it’s minus temperature!
Stating the obvious, with this next example, but people tend to dust off the sunglasses in the summer time.
There’s only one person, who truly rocks the sunglasses and that’s the Phons in Happy Days. No one and I mean no one makes sunglasses look good quite like he does, Hey! *in Phonsy voice*
True story, I realised the wife of a TV presenter, came to my dad’s shop and in the winter I saw her and he daughter with sunglasses on and yes it looked really weird. Summer won’t be summer, if you don’t bring out the shorts from the bottom depths of the wardrobe.
In the winter, legs are locked up till lunch! In the summer, those bad boys are whipped out for the world to see.
Fellas, just make sure those legs aren’t crusty or even skinny! If you’re bringing those legs out of the wilderness, no one wants to see crusty legs or skinny ones.
Images like those scar the average man for years on end. My sister, my God haver mercy on her soul, would tease my by saying I had ‘lady legs’.
Fellas, if your leg game isn’t up to it, hit the gym and don’t skip leg day! Not chicken leg day, no I mean the quads, hamstrings, calves and quads need working.
Last but not least, in my opinion one of the signs that tells you it’s summer time is when fizzy drinks go in the freezer.
Brothers, don’t do what I did and leave it in the freezer for too long, because you would be greeted with an ice explosion and burst plastic bottle with unprecedented amount of ice everywhere.
Entering that scene, you would have thought it was part of the Antarctic, but no it was just my kitchen!
On that note brothers, there is a list of the signs of when you know it’s summer time. It’s over and out from The Bearded Captain.
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