Most of us have been reading, with some incredulity, of the reaction in Western Europe to some warm weather.
I talked to some poms yesterday who are heading home today and were thankful they had been in winter New Zealand rather than face a couple of days in the high 30s in Northern England.
I couldn't help gently ribbing them on their suggestion that 35-36 in Manchester was unbearably hot when here in Godzone we welcome such summer temperatures as great - or at least all but the slime and the weather communists do.
Reading the Press from Britain you would think the world was burning up, not just creating an opportunity to use the local pub beer garden.
Not all Poms, however, have panicked.
Some have recognised the doom and gloom merchants for what they are.
Two rather good columns putting the "heatwave" reaction in context are worth reading.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/07/29/whats-wrong-with-warm-weather/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9595508/nation-of-snowflakes-who-melt-sun/
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