Don't plan anything strenuous, put suncream on the children and keep your bottled water handy. Britain will bake. The Independent, 5 August
"Bookmakers are sweating on what could be a large payout if thermometers top 100F (37.8C). Ladbrokes have cut their odds from 33-1 to 2-1 and Warren Lush, the company’s spokesman, said: 'This is the biggest weather gamble we have seen, double that of 1976. We are getting a bit nervous and doing rain dances because we stand to lose a six-figure sum if it hits 100.'" Times Online article excerpt
Also on BBC news yesterday evening, they were giving out tips on how to keep cool...advice like eat little, but often; drink lots of water, etc.
1. Coming from Singapore where weather like this is the norm, and also from Australia where summer heat hits 40C, I'm finding it highly amusing that advice like these are dished out on national news, and newspapers.
2. Weather gambling?!?! Rain dancing?!?!?
Only in England, only in England...
Still, it doesn't excuse the fact that it is stinking hot, the office has no air-conditioning and is killing me, and I was certainly not expecting Singapore weather in wet and grey England!
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