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I do have ice cream on the way.  Pizza, ice cream & coke.  The ice cream’s the important bit though.

Well, we didn’t quite break the record today. We reached 38.1C/100.58F, making it the hottest July day ever, and the second hottest day on record.

Spent most of the day sans clothing (apart from the socks, of course) dozing on the sofa ’cause I couldn’t sleep last night. Did make it down the road to top-up interweb and get liquid for drinking though.

Luckily we expect around a 10C drop tomorrow.

I’m really not built for hot weather.

Dozed off this afternoon while watching the telebox. Woke up and it seemed I’d taken off my glasses at some stage since they were on the coffee table and not my face. Picked them up and put them on, only corrected half my vision. Took them off and looked at them. Left lens has popped out. Been looking around the sofa, haven’t found it yet.

So, two pairs of glasses, and I have been using the older pair (though not as good as the newer because my sight is worse) because an arm broke off the newer, and now the older pair has only one lens unless I can find the cranny it’s slipped into. Probably buried somewhere in the gubbins of the sofa – it’s a proper sofa bed, folds out to reveal a full-size metal-framed and sprung double bed with mattress. So, looks like I’m either going to have to pull the bed – which is rigmarole, coffee table has to be moved out the room, some other bits shifted – or I’m off to get new glasses (luckily, I get the lenses free, and have a choice of free frames, or ones you can get reductions on). My opticians have been writing a while telling me I’m overdue, by a year or – more likely – two, an eye test, so there’s that…

Still…

Yesterday , up there, I commented:

Well, we didn’t quite break the record today. We reached 38.1C/100.58F, making it the hottest July day ever, and the second hottest day on record.

The previous hottest day on, 38.5C/101.3F, was recorded 10 August 2003 near Faversham in Kent, and I bet you can guess what I’m about to say by the word “previous”. The high temperature recorded yesterday was taken by a Stevenson screen in Cambridge at The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB). Not all Stevenson screens are checked at the same time – many are only checked every four weeks, Faversham was only confirmed in September 2003, though we knew 38.1C had been reached elsewhere on the day.

Again, in Cambridge, at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, when the weather station there was checked this morning, they had 38.7C/101.66F. It is a provisional figure, they need to check the instruments and the Stevenson screen, but it seems the record was broken.

The most swelteringest day ever.

Yes, but you have air conditioning indoors in Las Vegas, @50yearslate, and we don’t. Me, I spend as little time outdoors as I can. Indoors there, a/c; indoors here, no a/c.

Also, my flat is one room wide – roughly same-sized front room and bedroom at opposite ends of hall, bathroom and kitchen off hall. And look at how much of the outside wall is window:

AND THEY ARE AFTERNOON FECKING WINDOWS.

I get it from noon to sunset, the hottest half of the day.

And, no, the buildings opposite don’t help with any shade because…

Still, not being overlooked does allow you not to worry about how you’re dressed…

Don’t mess with a melting Nasty!!!!

I’ll swap my non-a/c flat for your a/c hotel room anytime.