Today I've mostly bin...

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It's *hot* here.

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[Bunnylump]

Where are you?

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Here

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South of Bergerac

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[LAT]

Lovely part of the world. Hope you have a great time there.

[Bunnylump]

Ooh, yes, lovely! Hope you are having a wonderful holiday.

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After 12 hours driving day 1, and 16 hours day 2, it was lovely to arrive. Yesterday was a lazy day, sun and pool. It's a brilliant place, just what we all needed. Today we're going into Bergerac.

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It's been very hot!
Welcome thunderstorm the night before last

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[LAT]

I'm jealous!

[Bunnylump]

Hurumph. So all my rain dances have directed the rain to you rather than here? Last time it rained here was 22nd June, and that was after a prolonged dry spell.

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It was a massive set of lightning flashes for 30 minutes, cleared the air a bit but hardly any rain.

It's been 38 degrees here today.

Just waiting for the eclipse to show up.

Back home they're seeing nothing. Except cloud.

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[LAT]

Great photo.
We were out yesterday evening going to the theatre and I wasn't sure I wanted to wander into a theatre carrying a colander but there were some people outside with them!

Best notice I saw yesterday was from the National Trust apologising that their sundials (with photos of a few of them) would be out of action from about 6pm until 8 pm and apologising for any inconvenience. They went on to reassure that they would be working again today.

[Bunnylump]

Haha brilliant!

[Scurra]

Fantastic picture - thanks.
The best we managed was to rediscover pinhole camera technology. I mean, we didn't even have a colander with holes in it!

[Bunnylump]

We used binoculars.

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Driving
1200 miles in two days. To the grey, cold, damp.
Back home now

[LAT]

Glad you got home OK. Wouldn't mind some of that cold and damp though!

[Bunnylump]

Me too. Still hot, sticky and dry here. Most of the garden now dead or dying.

[LAT]

Oh our garden is also really struggling. I am trying to save a few shrubs by using eg water when running the tap to get hot water and filling a bowl to donate to certain plants.