Spring damp

Signs it is indeed spring in London:

1. leaves beginning to show on trees;
2. smell of blossoms and lilacs in the air;
3. me, sweaty and tired, thirty seconds after I start walking.

My pits will be damp and I will smell of deodorant-masked b.o. until September. It's not like it's even that humid here; it's not the tropics, it's not Houston -- hell, it's not even Toronto. But it feels like a god damned rain forest to someone who's lived most of her life in a place with air drier than the Sahara...

And it's only April.