www.tanstaafl.co.uk

“Caution urged as London pavements hit 57C”.

At that point you surely have to see if you can fry an egg or two?

Adding to the issues that I’m dealing with at present in terms of how the medication I’m taking is messing up my body, today was the hottest UK June day on record, measured less than twenty miles from my home (36.7°C). On top of that it has been very humid. I have achieved almost nothing, not helped by a significant lack of sleep last night.

Fortunately tomorrow is supposed to be about 10°C cooler. We’ll see.

If this sort of thing keeps happening then I might have to discuss moving somewhere cooler. Greece, perhaps?

This is what the Met Office promised us for tonight.

I was sooo looking forward to it; a decent size thunderstorm and rain to water the garden too.

But no. I saw a couple of lightning strikes, one of which was really quite impressive in all fairness, and there’s been a minimal amount of rain. The latter is quite frustrating given that I didn’t water anything outside in the veggie plot this evening on the basis that if they’re forecasting rain for seven or eight hours you’d like to think that a worthwhile amount would fall.

37°C forecast for tomorrow. Then a 10° drop for the following day, and a further 7° over the next three days. Not that I’m unhappy that temperatures should return to something rather more bearable, but that is an enormous change in less than a week.