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Behemoth

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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 05 1:29 pm Post subject: Britain set for scorching weekend
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4102250.stm Forecasters are predicting the hottest weekend of the year so far, with temperatures expected to hit 32C (86F). Parts of England and Wales will be hotter than Tunisia on Sunday and the Met Office is warning fair-skinned people of a very high risk of sunburn.

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 05 5:31 pm Post subject:
mew! I'm working at a medieval event this weekend- layers of wool and campfires and all that. Please can't it rain?

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
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Location: France

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 05 6:56 pm Post subject: Re: Britain set for scorching weekend

Behemoth wrote:

Forecasters are predicting the hottest weekend of the year so far, with temperatures expected to hit 32C (86F).
Parts of England and Wales will be hotter than Tunisia on Sunday and the Met Office is warning fair-skinned people of a very high risk of sunburn.

Yes, France too thank you very much

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 05 7:15 pm Post subject: Re: Britain set for scorching weekend

simon wrote:

Behemoth wrote:

Yes, France too thank you very much

How hot does it get down that neck of the woods? Don't forget the sun cream on the family and the pig. Actually I prefer a large hat and long sleeved shirt to sun cream, might look a bit daft on a pig though.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: under some rain.

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 05 7:40 pm Post subject:
I feel a trip in the boat coming on!

Viking_Chick

Joined: 21 May 2005
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 05 7:57 am Post subject:
And here we have fog Its supposed to brighten up for the afternoon though - here's hoping! Now, I really should get loads of baking etc done this am, so I can enjoy the afternoon (if it happens......)

mrsnesbitt

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 05 9:43 am Post subject:
same here viking chick..........................warm or clammy as we say but foggy! Was up early and have just pegged two really long lines of washing out to dry. As I pegged the last T-shirt up hubby said " It looks like rain !!!!!" Where ru?

Viking_Chick

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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 05 9:47 am Post subject:
I'm in Shetland - it is starting to lift, and my daughter is sifting the cocoa powder for the cake

wellington womble

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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 05 9:48 am Post subject:
Hurrah - I bought a parasol yesterday (not a sun person, me - big hats and shade!) so I can hide under it all day. I was finding that I was spending lovely days inside, cos it was too hot out, and we have no shade in the garden.

mrsnesbitt

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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 05 9:55 am Post subject:
ww..............want me to come and wipe your brow??? lucky so and so

alison
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Posted: Sat Jun 18, 05 7:32 pm Post subject:
It has been a fab day here, and we have discovered at least 20 holes in the paddling pool, that obviously wasn't put away very well last year

Bernie66

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Location: Eastoft

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 05 7:35 pm Post subject:
MUCH too hot for decorating~but when you only get every other weekend off you can't pick and choose when it gets done! Very hot round here, great if you like that kind of thing

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
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Location: France

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 05 9:21 pm Post subject: Re: Britain set for scorching weekend

Treacodactyl wrote:

The pig sorts himself out these days .... he loves to bathe in the mud then come evening he spends his time scrubbing all the mud off on the walls of his hut. I can't see the hut lasting long if this continues ... he really rocks the place

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
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Location: Suffolk

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 05 9:32 pm Post subject:

Oooh it's been so lovely - I've had a fab day pottering around the garden, having neglected it in favour of the allotment for a while. I can finally get onto my patio, having at last shifted all the pots of herbs to the far end of the garden for a while (I've been meaning to do that since March!!).

The thermometer said 38 degrees in my greenhouse

I've made up about 5 litres of elderflower cordial and bunged a load in the freezer, should keep me going till next year. And of course I've been to the allotment like the good girl I am, picked some lovely peas and scoffed the lot raw, before I even left, and came away with nearly half a pound of alpine strawberries (my back's killing me!!!)

This is the life

Blue Sky

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Location: France

Posted: Sat Jun 18, 05 9:39 pm Post subject:

nettie wrote:

The thermometer said 38 degrees in my greenhouse

Ours read 41 when I got up this morning .... and it just kept getting hotter from then. We didn't dare re-check the thermometer later but we havn't got alot done as it has been too hot here.

It is OK when you are here for the hols but hard work when you ain't!

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