It's unpleasantly sweltering at about 90 here in central Massachusetts, but I just came home from a few weeks in the UK, where the last week was every bit as bad! It was absolutely shocking: I've spent a good deal of my life in England, and have literally never encountered such unremittingly sunny, hot, sticky, uncomfortable conditions for such an extended period. T'ain't natural, or even marginally pleasant, to my mind; there's a REASON I travel to the UK in the summer! Add to this the fact that there just aren't the necessary infrastructural weapons (like lots & lots & lots of ice cubes, air conditioning in most public places, etc), and it makes for a pretty uncomfortable state of affairs! Looking forward to the autumn, or at least a passing thunderstorm... ~D
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