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Potential Level 4 heat warning for Sunday/Monday/Tuesday in England (i.e., you might die)

Guinnless said:
In '76 it was hot the whole summer. Our area (Manchester) was on standpipes to help save water.
I remember it being great as we could play out every day without the typical Manchester weather spoiling the fun. :)
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I was posted to Cambridge in '76 on my return from Gibraltar. I remember it being as hot as Gib and everything turned brown. On one occasion my car, a half-timbered Morris Traveller, boiled dry in a Cambridge traffic jam. The Colleges were up in arms because all their Greens, Commons and Pieces turned brown and they were forbidden to water them. People were convinced the grass would die and never grow again. No sooner had Harold Wilson appointed Dennis Howell Minister for Drought than it started raining, there was widespread flooding, and all the grass grew again.

PS: for the avoidance of doubt I'm not a climate change denier. :eek:
 
in the summer of 76 in London, before my Dad drove us to Cornwall, his Ford Cortina sunk into a softened road surface.

sometime in the 1990s I was in Dhahran, and had cause to visit King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals. I was shown round a research department that specialised in developing road surfaces that could survive prolonged periods of hot dry weather.
 
Up on the North Norfolk coast and I put my deck chair out this evening.

It's blooming freezing, so it feels like.

Glad to get back in the warm inside the caravan.

Heatwave my a*se!
 
Richard Lines said:
Only 6 :eek:, some might think that a little OTT??

Regards

Richard
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There are 2 in the drawing room, 2 in the man cave lounge and 1 in the most used sitting room.

Sofa no. 6 is an extra large sofa in the main bedroom - it is only there because the removal men could not it get up the stairs to the drawing room, so they took the window of the main bedroom out and brought in that way. Then they found that the door to the bedroom would not allow the sofa onwards to its destination. So... 18 years later, it is still in the bedroom. We will have to take the window out to do anything else... one fine day perhaps, or the day we move out! Of course it never gets sat on - it hosts some stuffed toys and the cats get to sleep on it. Shame - it is a well made, goose down filled 4 seater Multiyork model that I bought as a wedding present to the wife, in our previous abode. Cost a lot, 27 years ago.
 
gintonic said:
:eek:

are you sure you aren't JRM?
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Quite sure thank you. Not Catholic and do not keep an old nanny on the books!

Drawing room is just a name..but is decorated in that sort of style. The fact is we hardly use it, but one must pass through it to get to the main bedroom. Kind of odd, but you get used to it. Most of the house could be quite flexible in how it used. I am sure the room used to be a bedroom in a former guise - kinda large though.
 
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Looks liek I'll be grateful to be in the a/c'd office next week..
 
I’ve just realised that we’ve got a drawing room too. We don’t call it that, but that’s what it’s called on the servants’ bells in the kitchen. We call it the sitting room like normal people.
 
104°F = 40°C

Intriguing - I'm 65 and we were doing SI units when I was at school. Kate, 14yrs younger than me, goes on about doing feet and inches whilst at school. I don't understand.

Maybe we should all use Kelvin??? In which case it will be 313.15K

Regards

Richard
 
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