Oscar Wilde once said that ‘Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative’.
Yeah, but it has been ridiculously hot this week!
But for every one of us stuck in the office in a sweaty suit there’s someone making a roaring trade selling ice creams and dreaming of a shiny new van.
And for each of us looking out of the office window wishing we were young enough to run around in The Forum fountains, there’s a kid young enough to dance around in The Forum fountains!
This week it’s been a refuge from the searing heat for youngsters and occasionally mums and dads too. The Resident has even seen a group of teenage BMX bikers weaving around the spurting water.
The Met Office raised its heatwave alert level in parts of England due to the hot and humid conditions, although heavy showers were forecast for this weekend.
London and the South East were on Level 3 of four for the first time since June 2006, with temperatures reaching 33C (91.4F).
If you’re suffering with the heat, don’t head to Timbuktu, Mali, or Madras, India, on your holidays, as temperatures reached a searing 42 (107.6F) on Wednesday. Madrid and Miami were also hot (35c/95F) although Britain was hotter than cities such as Rome, Athens, Istanbul, Los Angeles and Paris.
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