{"id":939,"date":"2003-08-04T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-04T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=939"},"modified":"2010-07-14T14:39:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T13:39:22","slug":"939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/939\/","title":{"rendered":"The heat! The heat! Aaargh!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The heat! The heat!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let’s get one thing straight. I’m not a fan of hot weather. That’s not to say I don’t mind a bit of sun if I happen to be sipping a cold beer by the sea, but as a rule of a thumb, I’m an autumnal and winter kind of fella.<\/p>\n

So, as you might imagine, this current heatwave is not going down a storm in Chez Urban75, where I’m stuck in in a steaming room, battling with another of my writing deadlines with the heat way up in the mid-90s F (there’s a funny thing – I always refer to hot weather in Fahrenheit and cold weather in Celsius)<\/p>\n

Apparently, the weather is so hot that trains are having to slow down amid fears of tracks buckling<\/a> in the heat, and forecasters are predicting that the UK’s record temperature (37.1C (99F) recorded in Cheltenham, 3 August 1990) could be beaten this week.<\/p>\n

Aargh. Roll on the beautiful autumnal hues of October…<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, my camera dilemma continues, but I’m going to hold out for an expected announcement from Sony in two weeks about a possible replacement for the perennially tempting Sony DSC-F717<\/a><\/p>\n

Today’s top news is that my chum, Shane Collins, has been released after receiving a ludicrous six week jail sentence for growing cannabis at home. He only spent a day in jail before a judge threw out the original sentence on appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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