Too hot to handle

Even hotter today. After breakfast with Lorraine, I went to the gym first thing before it got really hot. The gym is air conditioned. Lots of people there this morning and all the cross trainers clogged up. I managed all the other bits, and went briefly on a cycling machine, and one of the inferior cross trainers, till I got to the proper cross trainer, only to feel a slight pull in my leg after about ten minutes, which I thought was cramp at first, but now I think was a muscle thing, so I stopped. Meanwhile Lorraine had been to see Caroline and had done her personal training.  

I have no energy in this humid heat. Did nothing that could be considered work, no writing, no form filling, editing of the podcast and all the other stuff I want to do. I read online (so it may be nonsense) that blood pressure pills make you less able to cope with extreme heat. Whatever, I don't remember feeling so lifelessly hot before. The temperatures might be as much as 40C this week -- smashing UK records for June. I remember in the 90s going to Agistri, one of the Saronic islands of Greece, and it was 40C and the locals were shocked and hiding from the sun. But now this is happening in England, but with added humidity. I worry about Mum in this weather, but she was be doing okay when I called. She really has lots of resilience.

Lorraine and I in the studio this afternoon for a while. Lorraine then went off to her pottery class this evening. I lay low, disinclined to do much. I spoke to Anton, who is having a tricky time, as Anne has been in poor health lately. Eventually I watched the dismal goalless draw of England vs Ghana. Ghana played a stifling defensive game very well, and deserved their point. 

To bed after 11, the night still and really hot. I read a bit of signed copy of My Family and Other Animals to Lorraine, and she was soon asleep. It's our new bedtime book, but it works a bit too well on Lorraine. I lay there for a while, reminded of sweltering nights in Chad but went to sleep anyway.