This cunting heat

I live in a south facing property.
The bastard sun has not gone in for 11 weeks.
The temperature at night is 33 in the lounge and 36 in the bedroom.
I am going to die of heat stroke.
I need it to snow.
Spain was never this fucking hot.

We're south facing as well, Tone but I have become a past master at wangling a manageable air current through the house. The curtains are rarely closed until very late either - they might as well be storage heaters in this

On the hottest day of the year, I was off (a Thursday, my chosen day in summer) and the kids had plans - son wants to go to the recently-opened permanent outdoor nets we now have, daughter is going to a sleepoverliterally around the corner from the ground. Aces, the park it is, educate the dog on the bus, bit of exercise and some coaching.

We got there, had a bit of a session, then I left my lad with his mate and his dad in the nets while I dropped off my daughter. Twenty minutes round trip on foot max for me.

I got back twenty minutes later and the dog looked about five pound lighter and I was doing a wet t-shirt competition that no-one would pay to see as it thundered something fucking ruthless. I was wet to my knackers, the dog's fur had flattened out and you could pick out individual hairs under my shirt. It was, however, fucking great. We netted a bit more albeit in the wettish-drying atificial surface and worked up a sweat, went home about 7. Absolutely fucking fantastic day, but if it had been autumn, I'd have been utterly fucking miserable and calling all gods bastards

Written so well I thought I was there with you all as I read it Bert.

There's a bit of Douglas Adams where Arthur Dent grabs hold of a waiter and snarls at him "Why is this fish so bloody good?". Fenchurch, his companion, says to the waiter, "Please excuse my friend. He's having a good day for once"

That's how I feel at the minute, Tone. The change of job has been the catalyst for a lot of it but I felt practically euphoric on Thursday night given the last couple of years before it.