40c in the Chilterns. Had to drive to Reading for a hospital appointment late morning earlier and the car's air conditioning chose today to stop working!! Outside temp was 40c driving back around 130pm. Quite pleased it's cooling down tomorrow.
Pissing down up here, started bang on 4pm as predicted. Big thunder roars all the time at the moment, and about 22°C - chilly compared to what you've got, but warm enough for us
Actually Wycombe Swan is just over 1,000. Also appeared at The New Theatre, Oxford (in Jesus Christ Superstar) which holds nearly 2,000.
Had a Heathrow to Cambridge job this morning, two of the hottest places in the country on the hottest ever day. Temp was 38C in Cambridge when I dropped off at 11.30, by time I reached The Blackwall Tunnel on the way back it was 39C, that was enough for today... A parkland fire a couple of miles from me in Shirley Park. Bring on the thunderstorms...
That's a great experience. I'd need the smelling salts just to sing before 20. They'd need the smelling salts afterwards
Hit 39 here, though the car said 43 at one stage (had been in the sun). Son’s workshop had the windows left open until 8:00 in the morning to let any cooler air in, then they ran cold water through the underfloor heating system. Worked well yesterday, but had to open the big bay doors for a delivery today, let the hot air in, all told to go home at 3:00. Daughter working at home with a big fan, no aircon in her office, but her boss phoned her to say don’t bother after it had taken him two days to do a simple bit of writing. Good bosses.
Worrying though a very small sample size of course. If you're right, and with the exit of some great workers due to Brexit, we could be up the proverbial creek.
Well done Col. Another song from Chess... I know him so well ( one of my absolute favourites) I wrote a parody of for my bosses leaving event.. (I really can't sing and so was sung by one of our students, who was choral scholar at Eton and Magdalen College). It seems to have been one of the highlights of my scientific career...I was always referred to as the person who wrote the song that was performed at this guys final lecture
Chess is one of those musicals that isn't mentioned very often when people say what their favourites are, but it's got some beautiful music and is a clever story revolving around the cold war, spying and the chess matches between the USA and the USSR. It's one of those niche shows with a cult following. The MD, who I have performed for a lot reckons the Chess score is the most difficult he's ever encountered. And he's played 2nd keyboards in Les Mis in the West End, along with tons of other stuff. Those ABBA boys are a phenomenal talent.
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