Hot! Hot! Hot!

I woke up this morning with such good intentions to do all the things on my list - above all to complete a portfolio! It wasn't long before this incessant heat started to get to me!  The winter I can cope with - you can keep warm - but I find it impossible to get any cooler!  Mary is taking part in a tennis coaching week and as a result has got severely sun-burnt in Victoria Park and I find it hard to find anywhere cool.  Sara was taking her friend Jane into Salisbury to catch a train to Taunton for her retreat holiday and Thom and I decided to come in with her as I wanted to bank a business cheque and also we needed to buy a new charger for our cameras - the previous ones having gone mysteriously missing!  We also bought two small fans for my office and Thom's bedroom.  Sara seems to like working in a hothouse so she continues to work in her study without any breeze. We did all our business but this did put me somewhat behind in my timetable.  Back home I found I had no appetite - just wanting to drink tea and fluids - and I dealt with some complex form filling for my City of London pension, my application for admission as a Licensed Minister and the paperwork to transfer my personalised registration number to my new car.  All these things seeming harder than normal because I felt so tired and hot.  I did have a small siesta towards the end of the afternoon and this evening I wrote up my blog - but didn't start on the portfolio.  Will do that tomorrow now that I have got out of the way these nit-picking forms to fill in.   Sara went to a boot camp this morning and came back feeling awful.  This weather does not bring out the best in any of us.  I like it warm but not this hot.  Apparently this weather is likely to continue for another two months and may be hotter than in 1976 - my first year in London which I recall was extremely horrible on the Underground. It's now 10.35 p.m. and think I'll go to bed.  Portfolio can wait until tomorrow and I'll blitz it then!