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Day 146 - Saturday 8th August 2020

 Location: London, UK 


COVID-19 / Coronavirus Outbreak

Lockdown

It is really, really hot at the moment.

In London it hit 36°c on Thursday and is set to continue with daily highs of 32°c-36°c for the next week.

When I think of recent summers, there have been a few with very hot weeks, usually in July.  I remember two specifically, 2013 and 2018 as both times I was rehearsing for a show which involved a lot of physical movement and rolling around on the floor, which during a heat wave, was hot work. 

But these are isolated weeks, the rest of those summers were typically British - mildly warm with showers. We seem to have had pretty hot weather for months.  In many ways this has been a blessing.  With the country in lockdown and then only allowed to meet socially outside, with less clement weather, this whole situation we find ourselves in could have been a lot more unbearable.


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