On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:51:53 +0100, Sue
wrote:

In message , Ian Spare
writes

Here, now, it's ten past seven in the evening and it's 31 degrees,
windless and humid. It's no odds to me what it's like in Scotland or
New Zealand, or anywhere else that's not sharing your sticky foetid
airmass.

If our weather does improve, I'll make sure to post and brag about it -
can't say fairer than that, can I?

I think you must have heat exhaustion, wasn't it you who started this
thread and later told us how it was "worse" in the UK ?

Which it was, the previous poster'd claimed temperatures several degrees
cooler than here.

If you're sure then I for one am moved by the obvious hardship being
suffered across the entire of a small corner of the UK and I'm going
to pop over to the UN office in Geneva and see if we can start some
sort of aid campaign for you. I don't think anyone in mainland Europe
really understood how slightly uncomfortable it'd been for a couple of
afternoons in a car park near Heathrow for probably hundreds of
people.

It's been a Bob Geldof sort of moment I can tell for me and a lot of
people I've shared the stories of how slightly warm it's been in part
of the UK for several days at a time. We all thought the most
important thing was to get in the ground and start making a
difference, sadly some of the aid flights to anywhere north of Watford
were canceled the mid part of last week after some severe weather
warnings for the areas, it said thunder storms but I presume it was a
typo and really it was just fairly warm.

We've come up with a few concrete proposals though,

1.We're really worried some of the tarmac might be suffering, it's
melted here in Switzerland so we can't even imagine how warm it must
be there. We reckon we can get a few thousands tons of hardcore to
make repairs for you all, it's fallen of the Matterhorn and there's no
easy way to stick it back.

2. Food, fortunately we can help here as well, as luck would have
we've a lot of cows we can no longer feed because all the grass has
died so we could send some of them.

3. On the food motif we've launched a pan-European appeal and the
French, Portuguese and Italians have indicated they've large amounts
of charcoal they could let you have.

4. Sanitation, this must be a large problem, again our European appeal
has been pretty successful, The French would be more than happy to
take some waste water, as luck would have they can use it cool their
nuclear reactors where, and it's hard to think why, they've been
running short.


We'd love to have even a scabby glacier, and a colleague says the queue
for ice skating went out of the door and into the heat (lemmings!) And
the kids she was with made her join it anyway.