A bit more garden!

[curiouswombat]

It remains hot and dry. Officially the temperature in the shade reached just over 28C - but when I was driving NYK home at 6.15pm the car was registering an outside temperature of 31C. As our usual summer temperature is around 21-22C we are all feeling the heat; remember our houses do not have air-conditioning - it is seen as an environmentally

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[pondhopper]

There is no stopping the Delta variant if you're not vaccinated and that is the main issue everywhere now. Here it is the same on a larger scale of course...and most contagion all over the country is happening in the under 30 group most of which have just one jab or none yet. The propagation rate is falling though here...finally! I'm sorry so many cases have appeared on your island...inevitable when you open to the world.
:(
Living with covid is what the world is tending towards....

I love your red roses so much! Are they scented?

We would die without aircon...It's been 38-40 this past week and likely to continue for a while. like another month or two.

I have a pelargonium just like yours!
:)

[curiouswombat]

Our government decide that it was time to learn to live with it. We now have over 80% of the over 30s double vaccinated (for example D-d and the NYM are now at 2jabs plus 11 days), a further 9% of them have had one and are booked for their second, and 80% of the 18-30s are single jabbed or have had their second jab in the past week - and it is fairly cleat that, although it is spreading very quickly, the vaccination programme has been very successful. We have no restrictions at all. They may introduce some restrictions - they haven't ruled them out completely, but as the schools break up tomorrow it is quite possible that the infection rates in the under 18s will go begin to go down. We wait to see

[epiphyta]

NYK2 is correct: we island people are not meant to be in this sort of weather! :D

[curiouswombat]

Fortunately we are expecting more pleasant low 20s for the next week or so, starting tomorrow.

[kathyh]

It's ferociously hot here too but we are forecast cooler weather tomorrow, which will be a great relief.

Sorry your Covid cases are spreading as fast as they are here but that is better news about the hospital numbers.

Lovely roses.

[curiouswombat]

The numbers are high, and only about 35% are completely asymptomatic, so for some people it is a bit of a cough for a few days and for others it is downright horrible, it does look as if the vaccination drive has done what was intended and broken the link between contact and severe illness.

tomorrow's forecast is Not quite as hot, but still very warm with highs of around 26°C.

But the outlook is Remaining dry and settled for the weekend with some sunny intervals, and although a little cooler than of late, it will feel pleasantly warm with temperatures reaching up to 21 or 22°C at best.

I like that our local met office defines 'pleasantly warm' as 21-22C. I'm inclined to agree with them.

The roses are really rather gorgeous.

[lenine2]

The roses are beautiful.

Interesting numbers regarding Covid. It certainly seems like having the vaccine is saving some lives, even if they do test positive.

[curiouswombat]

The roses near the house have done so well this summer :)

a local news site has pointed out that when we went into Lockdown March* there were just under half that many active cases - and 23 in hospital so yes, it really does seem to be working.

*At that point our vaccination programme had only got as far as the over 70s, and most of them had only had their first shot.

[adafrog]

:D

[curiouswombat]

Thank you!

[one_raido]

This pandemic is never going to end.

[curiouswombat]

I comfort myself that the 1918-20 one eventually came to an end... eventually.