It’s Too Darned Hot

Thermometer reading 40 degrees C
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Like much of the northern hemisphere, my region has been smothering in a heat wave for the past few days.

Here’s the my report:

Air conditioning use and water consumption? Definitely up.

Productive energy and restful sleep? Way, way down.

Noel Coward famously observed that only “mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun” because they’re…

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Recreational writer, collector of antique corkscrews, urban gardener and management consultant to social profit organizations. Proudly Canadian.

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CorkscrewAnnie

Recreational writer, collector of antique corkscrews, urban gardener and management consultant to social profit organizations. Proudly Canadian.