Five reasons why hot weather is EVIL

2: Beer gardens

Beer gardens are great aren't they? They're the best part of summer, right? The perfect place to chill and flirt. In fact, just sitting in a beer garden instantly transforms your grunting group of mismatched mates into a gaggle of cheery, intimate friends straight from a mobile phone advert.

The only snag is that if the pub in question is any good at all, every table and chair in its beer garden will already be hogged by people smugly enacting mobile phone adverts of their own. Which means you can either stand around shiftily in a sort of Beer Garden Losers' Club, or admit defeat and slink back inside the pub. Where at least there's no risk of a wasp hovering over to make you jerk about in your chair like C3PO.