Day One Hundred and Forty-Eight - It's This Damned Heat, Carruthers......

Another hot one which has seen me sticky and sweaty. Sorry for that much detail. But it's going to get worse. Because I have gone "ubercommando" which basically means I'm not wearing a bra. Call me a rebel, call me a harlot, if you will. I'm just too damned hot.

Of course in this heat it's very difficult to sleep. I did manage to doze off but I made the stupid mistake of leaving the windows, not open exactly, but on what is called ventilation. I thought it would be a good idea to let the cool, night air in. Of course that's not all that was let in. It lets in every damn noise. And when my charming neighbours decided on the stroke of midnight that it was a perfectly fine time to let the dogs out for a good, old bark it woke me up. I was not amused. I didn't really sleep properly after that. So I was up and out for my walk early. It was definitely cooler and even though I was feeling a bit muddy and not really wanting to walk I'm very glad I did it. Have even sorted my steps dilemma. Instead of walking the path down to the steps to come up them,  I go down the steps turn round and come up! Such a simple solution. I can't think why I didn't think of it before. Of course it depends whether anybody else decides to come down or up while I'm on them because there's no way of maintaining a social distance if they do. But most of the rest of the world doesn't seem to want to keep social distance anymore. It's only me and a handful of early walkers who still observe this quaint and ancient custom of staying 2 m apart. Didn't even look at the blackberries today. Just went for my walk, passed Sue briefly and exchanged a good morning, and came home.

And I'm back to pottering and faffing again. Which is all I've done today -  just too hot to do anything else. I've arranged a Waitrose online delivery for Wednesday. I was so appalled by Sainsbury's pre-covid approach that I've decided to go for a change. We'll see how they do.

And in the wider world of covid news. Biggest rise in positive tests for six weeks but hospitalisations appear to be down. Not sure what to make of that. I think the real test will come a few weeks after the schools go back. That's the UK. Australia and Brazil still seem to be suffering high numbers of infections. Not to mention the US.

Over and out now because I'm back to where we started, sticky and sweaty, too damn hot.