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London in the heatwave

November 30th, 2006

Although we didn’t have the same temperatures in Edinburgh as in London, I experienced some of it while spending a week with Dan’s mum Jen in mid-July.

Jen and I spent much of the time in the garden, moving round the shade. Having had a very busy previous week with the annual preparatory course for language assistants in Glasgow, I was very happy to go along with this…

We also had some time with Jen’s mum Viv, joined on one day by Anna and Beri (Beri is Dan’s cousin) who were on holiday in London at the same time.  On a second day out with Viv, we headed to a former castle and gardens in Kent.  This was probably one of the hottest days, and it was good to walk in the shade of various formal gardens.

Later in the same month, I had a one-day training course in London, flying down early in the morning.  As the heat build-up in the Underground was quite intense during July, I walked from King’s Cross to the office at Charing Cross, rather than take public transport.  Doing this in the early morning was actually quite pleasant.

Coming out of the office again at around five, it was like walking into a hot bath of air…It’s a strange experience moving in and out of air conditioned buildings and trains/planes into regular uncooled settings.

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