Bye Bye, see you at Bristol on Saturday !

Told the wife I'd take her away for a nice weekend ...... Bristol seemed as good a place as any

 

Yep

You can take her on the SS Great Britain, have a beer in the Gorge Hotel overlooking the suspension bridge and drink mad cider til you speak like the locals.

 

How are things down under mate?

Any warmer than Barrow?

 

Great thanks

Just a bit warmer... it was 45.7 degrees C (115F) yesterday, a 70 year record! It's like standing in front of an open oven. At least it's dry heat... hot dry northerly winds bring the heat off the desert. Getting into the car after work is fun. Goodness knows what the temperature is inside. Our apartment now doesn't have hot and cold taps, just hot and hotter.

The funny thing is the locals have been taking the **** of me saying I'll be a melting pom but in truth it's the other way around. I'm just glad to be rid of the horizontal freezing Cumbria rain. I'm sure the novelty will wear off.