Did you say the foxes are in front of the fans?! That is so cute! 
Haha! @caricature I didn’t write that properly did I?! I meant to go so long without rain is unheard of. We get rain most days up here, even if its just half an hour. To go several days without it is very rare. Climate change is real 
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I reckon this is all Putin’s doing. His scientists can now control the weather, as well as Covid. 
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Climate change or different from the norm, everyday is different so its bound to change, What seems to be different this time is temps haven’t become higher than past records by .C but by complete degree’s…
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Definitely!
Never on a Sunday - Nana Mouskouri said so!
Whoopee! … it’s raining at last! 
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My bird baths and other water containers in the garden, in the shade, are attracting lots of wasps today.
Even insects need a drink, EZ.
Yes I agree, with the exception of wasps.
Currently 36c in my bungalow and 47 in the conservatory. Roll on the incoming storm.
Yes. But to be fair they’re all but pets. Regularly fed and watered along with the badgers who scratch at the back door to be fed in the evenings and god knows what that visits us overnight. We never see any “bald tailed squirrels” though, I suspect other foxes and badgers see them off which is fine by me. Hedgehogs too that love el-cheepo cat food, more of them in autumn though. Dammit, we LIKE wildlife around our crib!
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This makes me so happy Todger! I know you have a good heart…if only that extended to your recycling sigh 
27°C here… the dog is lying on the bathroom floor. I asked her earlier if she wanted a shower and she fled
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38c here in norfolk just now.
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Birmingham is 38 as well saying we should have light rain between 5 and 8 does not look likely to me at all
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I’ve just popped over to the convenience shop for a few bits and pieces, around 36ish degrees today but blimey does it feel oppressive!
Seems that Charlwood gets the prize for being the hottest place on record, I’m beginning to wonder if this is becoming a little bit competitive 
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LONDON — The sun beat down, the reservoirs dried up and, as a minister was appointed to deal with the drought, Britons were urged to restrict their ablutions to just five inches of bath water.
It was 1976 and in those simpler times, people didn’t all complain. In fact, some wore T-shirts with a slogan that quite a few believed — albeit incorrectly — was official government advice: “Save water, share a bath with a friend.”
That is how some in Britain like to recall that one sweaty summer in the mid-1970s, contrasting the stoical response to the hot spell decades ago with more alarmist reactions to this week’s high temperatures.
“This heat wave hysteria epitomizes the Tories’ fatal embrace of nanny statism,” read the headline of a recent opinion article in The Daily Telegraph that included a comparison to the summer of 1976.
Others, while not specifically referencing the 1976 heat, have suggested that modern Britain has gone soft in the face of this heat wave. A Conservative lawmaker, John Hayes, who caused a stir by complaining about “snowflake” Britons, stuck by his remarks in comments to his local paper, The Lincolnshire Free Press. “We can’t create a society where people don’t take responsibility for themselves or for their neighbors,” he said.
And even the outgoing prime minister, Boris Johnson, told a cabinet meeting on Tuesday that, as the heat wave arrived, it was important to “balance risk with the need to keep our country, our society and our economy moving,” Downing Street said.
Yet the comparison to 1976 is misleading. The highest recorded temperature then was 35.9 degrees Celsius, whereas on Tuesday it surpassed 40 degrees.
According to the Met Office, none of the country’s top 10 hottest days occurred in 1976.
How is the current heatwave linked to climate change?
The Met Office estimates that this heatwave has been made ten times more likely because of climate change.
The overwhelming majority of scientists agree greenhouse gases - which trap the sun’s heat - are causing a rise in global temperatures and climate change.
This has brought more extreme weather. Periods of intense heat do occur within natural weather patterns, but they are becoming more frequent around the world, more intense and are lasting longer as a result of global warming.
“We should expect more and longer heatwaves in the future,” says Prof Nigel Arnell, a climate scientist at Reading University.
A few swallows do not a summer make Pixie…
This is the temperature here in South Yorkshire at present…
For all you man made climate change believers…We have a very unique set of circumstances causing this to happen…See the weather map…
So are you suggesting than this unique set of circumstances has never happened before?
I wonder what the Roman legions would have thought as they walked through vineyards in the north of England…
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