Truly, I cannot remember such long, sustained heatwave since those, er, 'happy' days when I lived in a tent on the end of runway #2 at Bahrein Airport. Yes, yes, I know, I know, I keep repeating that tale but that's why it is a mistake ever to buy an old soldier a drink in a pub! Mind you, old sailors are just as bad! Anyway, the fact is that an occasional hot day or two is perfectly acceptable in this "our septic Isle' if only to remind us that drizzly rain does not last for ever! Even so this extended 'scorcher' is, quite simply, damned un-British! Even reading, my 'go to' hobby is hard work because I have to keep pausing to wipe the sweat from eyes.
Talking of reading, I noticed an old book of mine up here in 'God's little attic' which I can barely remember reading. It is titled "Lloyd George and Churchill" by Richard Toye. I sort of want to re-read it but having just read part way through the 'Heffalump's shocker, "Staring at God", I'm not sure I can. What a pair of twisters and rascals they were! I sort of knew it with 'Winnie' but I hadn't realised what an 'A1 shit' LlG was!
God save us from politicians!
Self government is not for the faint of heart is it?
Posted by: Whitewall | Friday, 26 June 2020 at 12:22
On the bright side, grumpy old men all over the UK will have more to complain about!
Changes to the UK climate and weather events
UK warm spells Increase
Is this linked to climate change?: Yes
What is expected in the future?: Increase
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/climate-change/effects-of-climate-change
Posted by: Bob | Friday, 26 June 2020 at 14:23
"The sea was 15-20 metres higher 3000 years ago than today."
Well David the good news is you're unlikely to experience sea-level rising anytime soon.
https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-bronze-age-ships/was-there-a-viking-age-in-norway--2000-years-before-the-vikings/1698522
In spite of the hadith's insisting to us climate deniers we're all gonna be underwater in ... well what was it, twenty years ago? Anybody got a dvd of Perfesser Albert Gore's Inconvenient Truth y'all could review then remind me of the schedule?
I distinctly remember there supposedly being 2.2 million deaths by now it's just that I can't exactly recall which armageddon the experts was talking about.
Posted by: JK | Friday, 26 June 2020 at 14:58
The temperature is rising on the Indo-China border too ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX2SOqpshmA&list=WL&index=48&t=0s
See the comments.
The Don's posse would do well to leverage this pro-Indian undercurrent.
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Friday, 26 June 2020 at 15:59
The Don's posse will get right on a reality narrative about that Indo-China thing right after they finish all their reality narratives for the 2020 election. Unless they all get fired first.
Posted by: Bob | Friday, 26 June 2020 at 20:10
Do they have your current contact info Imam Bob?
Posted by: JK | Friday, 26 June 2020 at 21:28
They probably do, Archbishop JK.
Posted by: Bob | Friday, 26 June 2020 at 22:45
Bob, Trump has had you guys going down many false trails reminds me of a dog chasing it own tail.
Off topic:
How are things in Indiana? Has been awhile.
Posted by: Up2L8 | Friday, 26 June 2020 at 23:24
Up2L8,
What chance do we have against a very stable genius with the best brain who knows more than all the doctors and generals and scientists? Woe is us guys. We are but dogs compared to His magnificence.
Indiana is OK. We're decreasing covid cases even though we're close to Chicago and several Southern states. Weather's been good if a little warm. We're finally getting some rain. Can't complain.
Posted by: Bob | Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 02:19
You mention close to Chicago, Gary/South Bend/Mishawaka?
Lived in South Bend for a spell, many moons ago.
Posted by: Up2L8 | Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 04:50
I live in the Lafayette area close to I65, which has a lot of car travel stops where the virus could spread. South Bend went over a rough patch after NAFTA sent a lot of light manufacturing jobs south of the border. It did better than a lot of other small cities because the Notre Dame campus kept the economy going. I haven't been there for 5 or 6 years, but parts of the city have recovered, or at least had.
Posted by: Bob | Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 18:33