It's still too warm, and relentlessly sunny.  You know, you really can have too much of a good thing ( Read more... )

Last Monday we got up early, packed the last few things, breakfasted and phoned for a taxi.  By 7:30 it was already Too Hot ( Read more... )

That's it!  Today it's 'main warm'.  H has gotten out the fan and put it on.  The usual onshore breeze we have from being near the sea just doesn't seem to be up to much today.  Plus we have to open windows to benefit therefrom.  So we also get to 'benefit' from the additional noise of passers-by and fumes if they pass by in cars.  Yuk ( Read more... )

Oh look, the leaks to the US continue.  Monday/Tuesday somehow someone leaked information about the suicide bomber to some website in the US, thus warning his family that they were being searched for ( Read more... )

A (sub-)tropical heat-wave and the forecast for tomorrow is worse.  Yes, even here on the coast with sea breezes - pity those living inland.  In fact yesterday I was seriously beginning to consider going to the local supermarket to hang out in the chilled food aisles!  Apparently the temperatures are forecast to be higher here than in Barbados or ( Read more... )

I'd quite enjoy a nice salad.  But not if I have to wander round the yard collecting various edible leaves, then assemble it, & make a dressing etc.  So it may just be cucumber & freshly ground black pepper sandwiches (with crusts, I like crusts - that's why my hair curls so.  NOT!)   Then again, it might just be another litre of water, with ( Read more... )

Too Darned Hot!

So this weekend we're having a (mini) heatwave.  Temperatures got down to 24C last night, & are up in the low 30s in the daytime.  No I know that some of you, Dear Readers, have to put up with temperatures far higher than that in the summers, probably in the winter too, but here it's HOT!  I was in Winchester Thursday, when it ( Read more... )