It's hot here....

....and I am sat in a barn conversion of an office in glourious Gloucestershire.

One week of relatively warm weather doesn't make a summer, nor does it confirm the impact of climate change, however it does get you thinking about the designs of where we live and work. We have friends who live on the Atlantic coast of Spain, a little way from Seville. Their house is in a narrow street that doesn't let in much light, angled so the sun does not directly shine on the front windows for most of the day and has a verandah where the family sits for most evenings until the early hours. Our houses have fitted carpet, poor ventilation - we call it blocking out the draughts and through the benefit of government aid and lots of B&Q adverts insulated to the hilt to keep all the heat in!

One of the guys in the office wore shorts, good for him, however like most other people I did do a double take. Which is an interesting point about how expectation of acceptable standards is impacted by circumstance. Shorts in an office might be a little stange, but OK for strolling down the down the High Street on a Saturday lunchtime. I am always slightly amused by people's attitude to topless sun bathers - some people are able to a filter out the obvious talking points and others become transfixed by the matter.....both of them.

But's it's still ruddy hot. In an office space the IT revolution doesn't help, with PC's, Laptops, screens and printers all chucking out heat all over the place. I am sat in my little corner of the office with 2 fans going.

There are some ladies and gentlement of my acquaintance who have probably got it about right. They are the regulars who sit outside the front door of an drinking establishment known as the Camp Inn, Grimley. These hardy souls are content in each others company and the joys of the liquid refreshment served by the bar staff, one of whom happens to be my son. The liquid refreshment concerned is probably a significant contributor to their contented state in that most of them drink Scrumpy. Which given the heat, the bloody heat I think is an extremely good idea....so bye for now.