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…don’t exceed it.

while not perfect, and never will be, going beyond the line is never acceptable.
reaching the line is questionable given the subjects involved (adult limitations to kids)

while a “guess” might be the best we have - we are all sane adults and should be approached with common sense - it is not a target to hit (like some drivers think applies to speed limits regardless of driving conditions.

As you will find out later in life, when the lady in your partnership / marriage reaches a “certain age,” temperature control, especially to keep things cool is essential… :wink:

Good for the dogs too.

I’ve got my shorts on today!

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Same!

I started that yesterday!

Looking at the forecast I think the work trousers will be back on for next week though.

Were talking about doing an extension, probs will get solar and a heat sync when doing that tbh

Starting to think this is a bit untenable, really. We’ve had pretty much no rain for ages.

Looking at the historical weather year-to-date is even more dire:

On average, we should have had more than 250mm of rain YTD, but we’re at about 30mm!

Pretty sure this isn’t just a South East problem either, but pretty much the case across the UK.

Certainly, the Met Office rainfall amount charts compared to average for March and April look pretty dire.

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Yeah, the white water season last winter was a bust. My specialist white water boat stayed on the rack the whole time.

Meanwhilst, we’ve had 439 wildfires in the UK since January. In 2022 it was 250, it was 60 in 2023 and 45 in 2024…

This doesn’t bode well!

It’s not good.

At least climate change is a scam right…?

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People like my dad still come out with ‘It was regularly this hot when I was a boy, I remember months of no rain, and we just got on with it’. Like, no, this is possibly the driest Spring on record. It wasn’t like this when you were a kid, certainly not regularly.

Thanks goodness - huge snow drifts on the Isle of Wight in the early / mid-1960’s (I’d have to look up the exact date). Other end of the extreme - big heat wave in 1977, at RAF Finningley, training as AEOp. Where feasible, a lot of the lessons were run outside the main building, it was impossible to sit inside. Painted grass green for the Royal Review - it had all gone a horrible brown / scorched colour! :laughing:

Literally just had to bin a PL assessment at Windermere because of no water in the rivers. That virtually never happens, it’s always the wind (admittedly that wasn’t there either…).

The dry spell is worrying that’s for sure if this is a vision of things to come.