What does the summer weather mean to us?

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With school holidays underway, the Met Office has discovered some interesting insights into what we all love to get up to in summer.

We enjoy activities which include entertaining friends outside (10%), heading to the beach (9%), going to a festival (4%) or even just relaxing in the garden (23%). with women (26%) happier to relax in the back garden, compared to men (19%).

Other interesting insights around our summer behaviour:

• 82% of women change their wardrobe but only 64% of men choose different clothes 
• 40% of us watch less tv
• If it rains it’s women (54%) rather than men (43%) who would opt for indoor-based activities in place of a planned summer activity, rather than risk getting wet (21% nationally) or cancelling altogether (16%) 
• More than half (54%) the women surveyed said they change their diets when summer arrives but just 36 % of men say they eat differently.