London swelters...
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 06:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lethargic_manThe sensible thing to do would be to stay in my airconditioned office as long as possible. But I find I like leaving work and coming home. Go figure. *shrug*
So far it's been cool enough to sleep without problems, at least, though I'm not sure that will last the next two nights, before the heatwave breaks.
There are speed restrictions on the Tube, due to warped tracks. Honestly, they manage all right in countries with much higher annual heat variations than here (anywhere in the interior of a continent, for a start); why do we always have to make a mountain of a molehill?
I've been watching the grass outside work gradually turning yellow. It's entirely yellow now apart from odd clumps, plus in the shade of park benches and along the edge of the tarmac path (I wonder what causes the last of these)—most unaesthetic. Perpetual greenness is one of the things I like about England (and a not insignificant factor in why I do not wish to make aliyah. Mind you, in countries where there's limited supplies of water, like Israel, they learn to make efficient use of what they've got. Here we famously have 150-year-old leaky water mains beneath London, and despite Thames Water advertising about how much loss they've saved, they're still losing 894 million litres a day, and missing their own targets.
So far it's been cool enough to sleep without problems, at least, though I'm not sure that will last the next two nights, before the heatwave breaks.
There are speed restrictions on the Tube, due to warped tracks. Honestly, they manage all right in countries with much higher annual heat variations than here (anywhere in the interior of a continent, for a start); why do we always have to make a mountain of a molehill?
I've been watching the grass outside work gradually turning yellow. It's entirely yellow now apart from odd clumps, plus in the shade of park benches and along the edge of the tarmac path (I wonder what causes the last of these)—most unaesthetic. Perpetual greenness is one of the things I like about England (and a not insignificant factor in why I do not wish to make aliyah. Mind you, in countries where there's limited supplies of water, like Israel, they learn to make efficient use of what they've got. Here we famously have 150-year-old leaky water mains beneath London, and despite Thames Water advertising about how much loss they've saved, they're still losing 894 million litres a day, and missing their own targets.
