The Met Office has announced that they think this heatwave could last for another six weeks. This could rival 1976 at this rate. Pah... most of you nippers won’t remember ‘76.
Drought. Standpipes in the streets, people queuing with buckets to get water. Government advice was to share bathwater. Tarmac melting off the roads, before the days of air conditioning... small boys for goalposts, spam fritters eh?!
About bloody time we had a “Phew! Wot a scorcher!” headline in the tabloids. It’s only been.... carry the one.... minus the 7.... er..... forty two years since we had a decent summer.
I think I’ll watch this later....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oATKGjE9khI
Donald Trump needs kicking out of a helicopter
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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
So did spuds.
Those were the days. Rain, rain, more rain, floods, flooding, leaving work early and escaping in my car as the River Severn burst it’s banks and seeing Worcester Racecourse under water the waters were rising, and streaming off the fields to flood roundabouts. Then getting to a mile from home, and the police were turning people around, because the water had washed away the road that blocked the route to the next town. Now THAT was something.
But back to Summer of ‘76 (and that great song by Springsteen) and showing my age, I remember nearly falling down the cracks in my local park, because the earth was so dry. Plenty of family trips to the seaside that year, too.
As long as it rains enough occasionally to keep my water butts topped up I’ll tolerate it, not to bothered either way about the punk.
Must have been scary for you guys when they invented trains and automobiles!
She told me she was on the pill, honest.