Sorry for all the weather-related stuff recently. An entire week of unpleasantness is coming to a close with temperatures having topped 30c every day and no rain, not even cloud cover until this afternoon. It may or may not rain a bit in the next few days, but we need a great deal to top up the reservoirs, fill the rivers and percolate into the topsoil.
It has been worse in Europe. Photographs of the River Loire show it dry - a staggering prospect in the one of the loveliest valleys of France. They - and we - are facing a drought.
Mrs C and I volunteer at our local heritage centre, Manor Farm. We were there today but after 90 minutes with precisely no visitors and nobody bothering to look round the site - usually bustling and a haven of peaceful green space in the heart of old Ruislip - we packed it in.
Supposedly temperatures will begin returning to normal this week. There will of course be updates on this channel. Historians looking back from the far future can have a laugh about it.
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