Sweltering
Depending upon how you look at things, the current British summer continues to be one of the best ever. Take today for example, the sun shone from 5am to 9pm and the mid-afternoon temperature reached 32℃. It was the same yesterday and it will be the same tomorrow with a clear blue sky overhead. I think Andrew in Melbourne was probably right when he suggested that my shenanigans in Derby on Wednesday had saved me from undertaking a demanding physical trial - " maybe it was a good thing that you didn't walk in the heat." That day was significantly hotter than the forecasters had predicted. This week I have spent a significant amount of time in our subterranean "underhouse" area. It is always a few degrees cooler down there - like spending time in a cave. I removed some old kitchen cabinets that I put up thirty years ago. In the course of time they had collapsed. I replaced them with some sturdy shelving I had purchased from a nationwide company which has, in my op...