IT WAS 28 DEGREES CENTIGRADE TODAY. For London this is hot. I'm sweating like a swine. It's ten minutes to ten at night and only just getting dark. High summertime!I'M STILL EXHAUSTED. I slept nearly all night; then what do I do but spend half the day asleep from sheer exhaustion too!
I wish I had something interesting to post. Not really. Flapper the wood pigeon appears to have upped and left. I think he is having an affair.
My friend's dog, who is so elderly he looks like a little silver-grey donkey, has had an operation. Every time I see him he's in his basket with the most forlorn expession on his face. I have never seen a doggie look so sad. I think he is in pain. I hope he's OK.I heard a radio feature today called Home Thoughts from Abroad, where the BBC take London-based correspondents from the foreign press and give them open mike to hold forth on any aspect of life in the UK that interests them. Today's broadcast, by die Zeit
journalist John F Jungclaussen basically outlines the reasons why I want out of Britain. That we are becoming ever increasingly authoritarian and less and less free.If you want to hear it you can listen online (from anywhere worldwide), click here.
Deutsche-in-London.net review of programme.
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It's been about the same temp here - hot and muggy - but I love it! It's the weather I wait all year for.
ReplyDeletehi gled,
ReplyDeleteit's a bit warmer here... and has been all may and june. i love it!!!
but beeing so much further south from you, we don't have this very long days in summer. that is great, means the days aren't so short in winter.
but even liking the hot, it takes a lot out of you. i can understand you sleep a lot.
xx to you too!
Lieber Gledwood
ReplyDeleteHier in der Schweiz scheint es nun auch definitiv Sommer zu werden.
Ich trage Flip-Flops!! :-)
Wünsche Dir einen wunderschönen Tag und schicke liebe Grüesssli
Franziska Sternenzauber
I know what you're going through. I hate when it's hot like that. Here in Austria, we already had an awfully hot phase. With up to 35° Celsius for days and no rain. The thing is, we have no air condition, so i can't escape the heat anywhere.
ReplyDeleteI wish it would be 15° - 20° Celsius with clouds and wind the whole year. That's my favorite weather :)
Bist du zweisprachig aufgewachsen?
Ich spreche auch deutsch und englisch, wobei deutsch meine Muttersprache ist.
It's been like walking around in soup here...I want to sleep alot too when it's hot.
ReplyDeleteThis weekend Toronto is hosting the G20 summit and it's supposed to be scorching....makes for good riot weather i suppose. Wish us luck ;)
Jeannie: but it's too humid! Mediterranean I can abide. But this has me sweating like a swine here :-(
ReplyDeleteEla: I didn't realize till I met other bloggers how warm Canada got in summer. I thought it was like the Scottish Highlands crossed with the arctic..!
Franziska: Flip-Flops?!? Regnet es dann nicht mehr? Ich dachte, du hattest Monsoon-Regen...
Mina: Du und Franziska sind gluecklich... frisches Alpenluft atmen zu koennen... Zweisprachig? Moi? Ach nein! In der Schule, in Wxles, mussten wir Walisisch bis 16 Jahren. Danach habe ich Deutsch und Französisch studiert. Letzte Jahr entschied ich wieder Deutsch zu lernen. Ich waehtle das Buch Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo aus. Das verbesste mein Grammatik. Aber das kann ich noch nie beherrschen! Your English is really good though? You seem English, not foreign...
Elaine: SOUP!!?... walking around in SOUP??! that sounds distinctly unpleasant. How come Toronto gets to host G7, G8, G20 summits? They seem to do it all the time
I love this weather and I am making the most of it since I retired - fabulous!:)
ReplyDeleteYour weather is cooler than our 96 degrees...absolutely sweltering! I hope you're okay?
ReplyDeleteToronto is just lucky that way I s'pose ;)
ReplyDeleteGledwood,
ReplyDeletehoffentlich geht es dem kleinen Hund wieder besser, der aussieht wie ein kleines Silberäffchen? Richtig?
Hier bei uns kommt der Sommer jetzt auch.
Du fragst nach dem 1. Baum in meinem Post. Es handelt sich um einen 1000-jährigen Olivenbaum auf Kreta. Hierunter soll Zeus die Europa geheiratet haben.
Ich wünsche dir noch einen schönen abend und freue mich immer wieder, wenn Du bei mir kommentierst.
Liebe Grüße
Irmi
Wow that's Aussie weather by anyone's standards. Problem is, England's not really geared for such hot weather. At least you know it won't last! Cheers :)
ReplyDeleteI thought I'd answered the 1st 3 before but my comment obviously got lost in cyberspace. Ho-humm!
ReplyDeleteAkelamalu: I used to love hot weather... not any more :-(
e: I think today's temp is around 84F, so we're 12F below you...
because it doesn't get that hot v often we have sweltering humidity. That's the killer, the humidity!
Elaine: it's all a conspiracy!!
Irmi: ah! Danke schoen! Der Hund sieht wie ein ermüdender Silberesel aus. Heute trägt er eine hübsche Hundjacke. Er muß zurück zum Tierarzt, weil er gar nicht okay ist.
Ich dachte, dass der Baum ein bisschen dürr für etwas deutsches aussah!
Liebe Grüße
Gledwood
Baino: ah! You commented while I was slowly tapping in my German, haha!!
ReplyDeleteYeah I wish I had air-con.
I remember being in Malta in 1981 or some such year and my dad saying "30C ~ that's 86F" (we all thought in degrees F for summer temps and medicine in those days (but for some reason degrees C in winter. Possibly bc it was easier to understand that freezing was zero)....
... anyway point being 86 was REALLY HOT. Now it's normal summer temperatures here.
And global warming isn't real..?!!
It's the humidity that "kills", not the dry heat.
ReplyDeleteAnyway I woudn't call it 'global warming' but 'global weirdness' as there are places that experience unusual cold weather too.
Hmmm. You are right about the weirdness. We're also said to be getting lots more hurricaines etc... Though they say it's the heat that sets them off, too
ReplyDeleteRE: Saga seeds: The top photo is the dried pods where the saga seeds come from. I specially had that photo to show the pods.
ReplyDeleteI am ethnic Chinese, my great grand father left China more than 100 years to Borneo. So my food is morphed with the local people.
I am not sure of the Chinese Curry you have in UK. When I first arrived in New Zealand, the Chinese restaurants catered to European style of Chinese Food eaters. As a student, I worked in tow of these.
Their curries were a laugh to me. All they did was add 1 teaspoon of curry powder to their normal chop suey or meat.
Mine too has be modifled, and I shall post some of my recipies for you. My blogs are more for entertaining than instructional. I will see what I can do.
The curries you buy, are they dry or do they come with gravy, what about coconut or tomato?
I am quite confident with my Malaysian curry. Because I had been cooking it for 16 years and selling them for our charity.
http://ann-mythoughtsandphotos.blogspot.com/2010/06/mellow-yellow-mondayruby-reddinner-for.html
Thank you very much, Ann. The curry they sell at Chinese takeaways is always yellowy colour, never brown ~ so online recipes saying use Garam Masala I know are wrong. I found Chinese curry powder from a Chinese supermarket, which is exactly right ~ the colour of turmeric and the right spicing ~ but no ingredients!
ReplyDeleteI have been told that star anise is one secret ingredient.
British Chinese takeaway contains MSG and I noticed when making my own curry the MSG made all the difference (I know this might make you feel faint and ill to hear this but it's true!)... I suspect the takeaway curry might well have coconut milk or something else.
So as far as I know it's basically
1. Chinese curry mix ~ yellowy orange colour spicing
2. MSG
3. Coconut milk?
It's practically the same as a curry I once had in a Japanese restaurant...
Many thanks for the message. I must dash it's 9:20 and I've a doctor's appointment
:-)
You've been having a taste of Australian weather only we don't have daylight till 10pm*!*
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