The July boil

Seems I took off the two hottest weeks in recorded history for my annual leave. I know - this is a hackneyed theme, you know 'we are the hottest place in the UK' but it seems that we might well be. I was driving through Malvern Link on Wednesday at 6.15 pm and the car thermometer was showing an outside temp of 97 degrees F. Hells Bells! I am just thankful for aircon. Looking back on earlier posts it seems laughable. 'It seems to be warming up'? No kidding. The Malverns have been - until this afternoon, when we've had a couple of torrential downpours -dry as dust. Even the rain today won't have done a lot to relieve that so if you're going on the hills please DO NOT LIGHT A FIRE and if you smoke PUT THE BLOODY THING OUT! There have been serious fires in past years because people were careless. I'll write some more when I can gasp enough air into my seared lungs.......

It seems to be warming up...

Well it's not surprising, is it? First of June and it jolly well should be - though listening to dear old David Attenborough earlier tonight it seemd that in fifty years' timewe'll all be fried anyway. I do sometimes wonder if this is the latest media 'thing' - a while ago it was tsunamis, before that earthquakes, before that world-killing meteors - and it's always easy to find people who say what you want them to say when you have your hand on the edit button. What do you think?

Will it ever stop?

I think summer has deserted us this year if this endless rain is anything to go by. You get the feeling that most of the Malverns are going to slide of the bare granite and end up as a huge mud lake somewhere in Colwall - in fact we did have a small mud slide a couple of years back. Never heard of before, it must all tie in with global warming though the present temperature doesn't exactly back this up. All I can see from here is shining wet roofs and the hills have yet again hidden themselves under a mist blanket. Did I go to sleep last night and wake up in November by mistake? You tell me.

Sunday 21st. May 06

As I'm sure you're aware(if you live anywhere in the UK Midlands), it rained all damned morning. This wasn't too bad as I hadn't intended going out but it was so bad I couldn't even see the hills. Not all was lost - the sun came out in the afternoon a least. I guess that this is a fairly mundane topic but I thought I'd start with something non-commital. I'll try to be more interesting next post!v