The Heat Is On!
Dear Reader, We are told that today in the UK - in the south in particular - it's going to be hot. Well, 'hot' by our standards; anything around 30 degrees C. for us is sweltering. But the word 'heat' is one of those words that can be casually used in another way: to describe conditions that can cause blood pressure to rise due to a sense of something around us that forces us to have to take action under duress. This has been happening a lot more, I suggest, over the last decade in particular, even if we forget for a moment about pandemics. I do not have to write about the economic and health pressures that now exist, about how our 4-pint bottle of Organic Milk has gone up from £1:50 to £1:95 in a matter of months; how petrol was as low as £1:07 a litre a year or so back and is now more like £1.77 at best. And then there's the cost of energy to warm ourselves in winter. But perhaps winters are becoming warmer to offset the rise to some degree! I could go on abo