Hot, hot hot!

Working every night in a busy restaurant with no air con one could be forgiven for moaning a couple of times that the heat is a little uncomfortable. I've just seen a programme though that's given me complete permission to complain! I wondered if it was just that I'd done two months of -20C earlier this year but no it's true, Britain is actually melting! Record temperatures as shown in the chart from August 10th 2003 show that once we reach 30C we can't cope. Well the last month we've been between 30 and 35 I would say every day. July is statistically our hottest month and this has been the hottest July since records began in 1659. But everythings being affected. Trees and plants are dying, our coasts are getting new sealife, and new insects are arriving. Whilst our current systems are falling apart. Birds and badgers for instance can't get any food. And with a hosepipe ban in most of the country (not in Wigan thankfully!) the nation is trying to find a way to cope with the heat and accept it's gonna keep like this now with milder winters and hotter summers. And on that note I must go and face another horrendously busy night at work with every other customer telling me it's too hot to work...I wish they'd go down to the kitchens for two minutes let alone four hours!