Whew! what a scorcher

[Leman]

  Anyone else having 1976 throwback moments. My arms keep sticking to the arms of my leather chair and I am somewhat loathe to paint with my hands being so sweaty in this heat. The water level in the local duckpond is definitely down (usually it overflows onto the path).

[Leon]

'Tis a tad warm in the unit today, not helped by the melting pots and mould press going!   

[T13A]

Hi

In the Mendips.

Had an Impetus game last night in the garage with a friend (late Republican Romans v Parthians) yesterday evening. I was fine at the start of the game but by the end I was a bit of a wreck from the heat and hay fever. Hardly any sleep last night and seem to have developed a bad summer cold. Feeling absolutely crap from heat/hay fever/cold, can't paint or even concentrate to read. 

Hope you are all doing better.

Paul

[jimduncanuk]

Last night the outside temperature in my back garden was 26 UK degrees, whatever that is and my wargames hut was 31 degrees.

My extract fan took over an hour to bring the indoor temperature down to 26 degrees.

All I managed to do was to cheer on Belgium before giving up.

Will try harder this evening.

[Norm]

Zapped!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Beautiful day in Bedfordshire today.
Even got to see the National Army Intelligence Museum in the sun.  

[Techno]

The Green Stuff is behaving like a complete swine in this heat !

Cheers - Phil

[T13A]

Actually 1976 brings back fond memories (mostly!) being based in Münster, West Germany as part of BAOR (2 RTR) at the time.
The year included: (not necessarily in chronological order)
Skiing for 2 weeks in Bavaria and Austria
Learning to sail (3 weeks in the Baltic)
6 weeks B1 control operators course in Bovvy (which meant I got home most weekends).
For around 2 months in the summer being on 'Cyprus' hours i.e. starting early in the morning and finishing in the tank park at lunchtime because of the heat
2 week exercise on 'Sunny Soltau' (very hot, but you can store an awful lot of beers in Chieftain bag charge holders)
2 weeks live firing at Hohne ranges, only we didn't because of the danger of setting the ranges alight!
2 week parachuting course at Sennelager
6 weeks at the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) Canada (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLObyvpkwJA), including spending my 21st birthday in isolation in the military hospital there with chicken pox! (They were terrified I would pass it on to the whole battlegroup who had of course all been sent out from Germany. But also included a wonderful weeks R&R with buddies driving down the Rocky Mountains from Calgary into Montana).
Large NATO exercise in the autumn.
Parade for the Queen (as Colonel in chief of the regiment) as unusually, all 4 Royal Tank Regiments were in Germany at the same time.
And somewhere I must have fitted some leave in!

Cheers Paul

[Techno]

'76....?

That's the year Von and I married.
It was SO hot on the wedding day.
My favourite memory of that day was 'Mick the Vic' (The Vicar.....A truly lovely man) turning up to the church in a tee-shirt and shorts.)
Von's Mum looked at him...and in a slightly peeved voice saying...."Who on Earth's that.....doesn't he know there's a wedding on today ?"

That still makes me smile.

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

You was always easy amused Phil.

Nowhere near as bad a s 76, yet. no plauge of ladybirds, which almost caused my Sgt to put the Viva we were in into the Dee esturay.

IanS

[fsn]

That's the year Von and I married.

Blimey! She's a remarkably staunch woman.

I tip my hat to her.

[Ithoriel]

According to Radio 4 yesterday, '76 wasn't the hottest, sunniest or anything else-iest year.  Memorable none the less.

For me, memories of the year I left uni and also of breakfast on my parent's patio because it was too hot in Coulsdon, at 8:30 - 9:00am, to eat indoors.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Jo and I got married on the hottest British day in history, 10th August 2003.
Feeling that record isn't going to hold for long!

[steve_holmes_11]

Yesterday - Scorchio!!

Today - Scorchissimo!!!

[Leman]

Actually 1976 brings back fond memories (mostly!) being based in Münster, West Germany as part of BAOR (2 RTR) at the time.
The year included: (not necessarily in chronological order)
Skiing for 2 weeks in Bavaria and Austria
Learning to sail (3 weeks in the Baltic)
6 weeks B1 control operators course in Bovvy (which meant I got home most weekends).
For around 2 months in the summer being on 'Cyprus' hours i.e. starting early in the morning and finishing in the tank park at lunchtime because of the heat
2 week exercise on 'Sunny Soltau' (very hot, but you can store an awful lot of beers in Chieftain bag charge holders)
2 weeks live firing at Hohne ranges, only we didn't because of the danger of setting the ranges alight!
2 week parachuting course at Sennelager
6 weeks at the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) Canada (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLObyvpkwJA), including spending my 21st birthday in isolation in the military hospital there with chicken pox! (They were terrified I would pass it on to the whole battlegroup who had of course all been sent out from Germany. But also included a wonderful weeks R&R with buddies driving down the Rocky Mountains from Calgary into Montana).
Large NATO exercise in the autumn.
Parade for the Queen (as Colonel in chief of the regiment) as unusually, all 4 Royal Tank Regiments were in Germany at the same time.
And somewhere I must have fitted some leave in!

Cheers Paul

That's what I should have done! (although the parachuting wouldn't have agreed with the vertigo).  Teaching  kids who didn't want to be there for a a government who only saw them as potential earners and therefore tax payers can be deeply unsatisfying.