Coping With The Heat
Jul. 15th, 2013 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloThis run of hot weather makes me think of the summer of '76. If there's been anything like it in the years between I've forgotten.
Ailz and I were in Rochester yesterday. I'd never walked down the High Street before. There are Dickensian associations everywhere. Here's John Jasper's gatehouse. There's the shop that claims to be Uncle Pumblechook's. Here's the 16th century charitable foundation called The Six Poor Travellers that inspired a collection of Christmas stories. On our way home we stopped at Cobham and had afternoon tea at The Leather Bottle which features in The Pickwick Papers.
We cancelled a meeting with my godmother (my mother's old army pal) which we had booked for this afternoon. No-one fancied a jolly in this heat.
Ailz and I were in Rochester yesterday. I'd never walked down the High Street before. There are Dickensian associations everywhere. Here's John Jasper's gatehouse. There's the shop that claims to be Uncle Pumblechook's. Here's the 16th century charitable foundation called The Six Poor Travellers that inspired a collection of Christmas stories. On our way home we stopped at Cobham and had afternoon tea at The Leather Bottle which features in The Pickwick Papers.
We cancelled a meeting with my godmother (my mother's old army pal) which we had booked for this afternoon. No-one fancied a jolly in this heat.
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Date: 2013-07-15 09:27 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-07-15 10:43 am (UTC)Rochester was Dickens' Cloisterham.
Do you have a look inside the Travellers? It's an amazing interior.
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Date: 2013-07-15 12:08 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-07-15 01:23 pm (UTC)Whew!
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Date: 2013-07-15 01:34 pm (UTC)I think people sometimes forget just how far north and west the UK is. We're not used to this! :o)
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Date: 2013-07-15 01:36 pm (UTC)Stay cool as you can, dearie!
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Date: 2013-07-15 03:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-15 05:33 pm (UTC)90 was the year when a milk shake and orange juice went bad/fermented in the ten minutes I queued for a coach
95 was hot, yes, but not so hot or for so long as 76
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Date: 2013-07-15 06:13 pm (UTC)no subject
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