Ah I see Dave! It's 'Lets Pick A Fight With Sen Day' today! hee hee.
Actually, (digs hole deeper) my mother was one of EIGHT, and all my Irish uncles and aunts were hilariously 'eccentric'. They used to quote funny verses and songs spontaneously, and do daft, endearing things a lot of the time.
To get back to the thread title though, my mother could take any amount of heat thrown at her. Like me, she adored hot weather. Now her name 'Duffy' means 'black' in Erse, and there's a theory that many of the Duffy clan have African genes in them, from African slaves unloaded at the port of Cork, some of whom ran off and mixed with the native population. Now if true, that would make me ecstatic. I tan easily and like my mum have black hair ( a bit grey in parts now). One day, I might do one of those DNA tests to verify this. This could explain why the heat never ever bothers me, just like my African husband.