| The great thing about garden sails is that they | | | | made (not to mention the most of the |
| work just as well, and look just as good, under a | | | | surrounding space, which looks wonderful when |
| blanket of rain as they do in the glare of British | | | | set against a shade sail or two), that thing is the |
| sunshine. If there was ever an island famed for | | | | combined technology and comfort of a set of |
| its inconclusive climate, that island was this island: | | | | garden sails. The sails are impregnated with anti |
| and, with the British Summer now apparently | | | | UV compounds that keep off a minimum 85% of |
| occupying the two months prior to, and the two | | | | the sun's rays; they're weather proof, water |
| months after, actual summer (while July and | | | | proof and, because they're made of toughened |
| August are just wet), it's about time we found | | | | shade cloth, wind proof too. They look incredible, |
| some garden furniture to match our climate. | | | | they last for years - and they can make a rainy |
| At least, point out all the happy owners of brand | | | | July day the perfect time to get some fresh air. |
| new garden sails already, we actually get two | | | | Reading a book in the garden under the shelter of |
| summers. This is a fair point. Who'd want July and | | | | a shade sail has to be one of the most appealing |
| August to be hot anyway, when they could get all | | | | things about the English summer - that old school, |
| of May and June, plus all of September and | | | | devil may care, it might be raining but we're still |
| October instead? And with those super deflective | | | | going to make the best of it attitude in full swing. |
| shade sails in place, it doesn't really matter what | | | | Garden sails are a proper investment, at a time |
| the weather is doing. After all, July and August | | | | when investments that really last are more |
| aren't exactly cold - they just seem traditionally | | | | advisable than ever before. Why buy some flimsy |
| bereft of blue skies. There's nothing more | | | | garden sun furniture that isn't waterproof, isn't |
| pleasant, when a person stops to think about it | | | | even properly UV proof and will be broken by |
| for a while, than sitting under one's garden sails in | | | | next year? Get a garden sail or two fitted and |
| the warm, slightly humid air of a July or August | | | | one is guaranteed year round enjoyment, |
| day, listening to the soft drip of rain against the | | | | spectacularly original garden furniture - everything, |
| scientifically treated fabric. | | | | in other words, that your average parasol isn't. |
| The point is, the British, since time immemorial | | | | The shade sail has a class, durability, versatility |
| have been experts at making the best of the | | | | and beauty all of its own. Why not get on that |
| weather. And if there's one thing guaranteed to | | | | bandwagon quick, and start enjoying some garden |
| mean that the best of the weather has been | | | | sails before the late summer really hits? |