With the temperature reaching 36.6 degrees near Gatwick on Wednesday, it was not a day for bragging when one was in one of the few offices in the building with air conditioning (and sitting right under it). I stayed back late at work just to enjoy the cool. In this heat other anti-social acts include: Going out for ice creams and not coming back with enough for everybody Closing the ventilation windows on the tube trains claiming it is too breezy standing next to it Perspiring over fellow audience-members at a Proms Concerts (it was the Queen's 80th Birthday tribute tonight and the television cameras have picked up the audience battering programmes desperate for some movement of air) Forgetting deodorant and using the grab rails on a peak hour Clapham omnibus It is weather strictly for the Abercrombie and Fitch cargo shorts , a light t-shirt and flip flops… Incidentally thanks to global warming summer temperatures are expected to become more Mediterranean in London over the next ...
