LE HEAT

I understand its due to get fresher, a relief, janerowena it must have been very hot in your kitchen! I even avoided cooking last night, justifying that Rice Krispies would go towards a bit of weight loss! I often wish for a nice fresh north westerly on a hot sunny day, and always find that a hot humid south easterly can make Suffolk feel a bit murderous!

It can, I was quite surprised by how humid it gets here, but put it down to the large amount of rivers and streams and lakes around us.

I never thought of it like that, but it did take me back to that summer of 1976, when the river Deben in Woodbridge dried up, and the smell was awful. Er, got nothing to do with humidity but still, and young ladys mind does tend to wander! I really wish I looked better in less clothes tho', I need to cover up, and that does make me hot! And before anyone says become a naturist, I burn easily! I also get ratty in hot weather, and now I'm rambling, it must be the heat!

DD and I had a lovely time with GS2 in Richmond Old Deer Park yesterday. Beautifully warm - but not too hot, blue skies and fluffy clouds. We'd actually gone to see In The Night Garden Live (Brilliant!) but we had a picnic first and spent an hour in the playground. My shoulders were quite pink when I got home, but not actually burnt.

Night Garden Live must be quite surreal.

It's too hot to go to bed.

I don't think it's that hot and I live in sunny Dorset. I suppose 7 summers in hot and humid New York plus a childhood in Africa and the Far East has spoiled me for so-called hot weather here. I love it by the way as I loathe winter in this country as it's just cold and wet. Whilst having also lived and wintered in Canada and New York, we had very cold dry winters, with lots of lovely snow. When I finally moved back here I found the UK winters a real trial. The cold rainy days, but worse for me just overhanging clouds day after day after day. People are miserable then. I don't blame retired people moving to Spain for the winter, the older I get the harder I find it.

It's the humidity. I don't think I've ever felt that bad down your way, you get more of a breeze in the summer, with sea breezes on both sides of you. I've only lived here for six years and the humidity here really gets to me. It was ten degrees hotter last summer in Paris but not humid in the same way. The only other place I have experienced it was in Chicago at the end of August. We get it almost every year here.

It was so cleverly done janerowena with a combination of actors and puppets. GS2 is only just 18 months and he was entranced all the way through. All the mummies and grannies were solemnly singing all the songs.

I think I would have enjoyed it too!