Whew! what a scorcher

[Leman]

PAINT SLOWER!!!

[Orcs]

Has anyone else experienced this: in this hot weather, when I shake my Vallejo pots before pouring on opening them the paint is already coming out of the little nozzle, even though the pot is upright. Has the heat thinned and expanded it?

Yes I found that the other night. All my pots were upright and the instant I took the top off it was oozing out, on one fairly full bottle it ran over my fingers before I could get it to stop 

[Raider4]

No smoke here, we did have to put up wit red arras doing circuits and bumps for a couple of hours late mornin, afore dey went off. Noisey buggers.

Hah! Reminds me of when we went camping in S.Wales one year, across the estuary from an RAF range. Hawks buzzing around on a daily basis practicing their shooting.

We thought they were noisy.

And then one day a pair of Tornados came hurtling up the coast at low-level . . .

[Raider4]

Nowhere near as bad a s 76, yet.

Agreed. In '76 our grass turned yellow and the ground underneath was all parched & cracked.

My lawn (for want of a better word) today is still green, the mud underneath still solid. And no, we don't water it. Neighbours lawns look the same.

[fred.]

All the grass round here is very yellow. But ground is still solid, not cracked.

[Leman]

All my grass is straw coloured now and has been for a couple of weeks.

[Steve J]

Grass straw coloured in large parts of Bristol. Went to Brandon Hill park in centre of town and most bedding plants dead or close to it, which I've never seen before here. Having to water my garden each night and pots twice a day to keep plants going, but frogs, bees, butterflies etc doing well as a result.

[Techno]

So are the bloody horseflies (clegs).......Evil little b*stards !

So hot over here, I'm starting pushing putty at stupid O'clock, so I can get some work done before the putty plays silly sods.

Cheers - Phil

[Steve J]

We went for a walk a week or so ago and got mobbed by horseflies, but they only attacked me and not SWMBO 

[Techno]

One bit me on the back through a tee-shirt a couple of nights ago, just before Von splatted it.
I felt the bite, alright !

Cheers - Phil.

[Leman]

Nursing a bite on the back of my left calf - finally stopped itching after about 5 days. It's quite cool here today being only 25C.