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Weather report; how Fleet Street is reporting our record breaking summer, under-appreciating the James Webb telescope, the race for No 10, the Mail gangs up on Mordaunt, headlines & clichés and front page of the fortnight.
1976 and all that
Did you close the curtains, get the fans whirring and hunker down with your
pint mug of water or did you “Keep calm and carry on”, while reminiscing
about 1976?
I remember that heatwave; I remember carrying washing-up bowls of dirty
water up the garden to water tomatoes in my first attempt at vegetable
growing; I remember minister for drought David Howell being urged to do a
rain dance to bring relief.
I also remember the heatwave of 2003; I remember buying an over-priced
“swimming pool” for my nine-year-old daughter; I remember my husband
mocking me for choosing the hottest day in the year to sweep the greenhouse
– pretty rich from a man busy laying paving slabs on a new patio; I
remember driving through France where every tree was burnt brown, not a
green leaf in sight.
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