Am I enjoying the heatwave? No, I’m at my desk | Peter Bradshaw
It's happened. It has come to pass. Now I know we really are in the middle of a blistering summer heatwave, and the temperature in Britain is officially higher than an exploding sun. It's not the skin cancer warnings or the Hieronymus Bosch press photographs of Brighton beach. It's getting work emails from people saying: "Hope you're enjoying the lovely weather!"
It has become de rigueur to begin emails with a kind of jolly topical reference to the sunshine - as compulsory as signing off with "Best". They hope I'm enjoying the lovely weather? What? No, I am not enjoying the lovely weather, am I? I'm indoors grumpily dealing with work emails like this. And even when I am outdoors, I become even more Eeyore-ishly resentful of the sunshine beating down.
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