Even hotter at the air show

Yesterday was our third and final day at RIAT. We set off even earlier and arrived by 8.30 a.m. and it was already very warm. During the day the temperature rise to over 30 deg C with almost no breeze - it wasn’t even cool in the shade! However we still had a good day and James took very many photos. By the time we left the air show James wasn’t feeling well at all. He had a sore throat, blocked up nose and a really bad headache, even though he had kept hydrated all day and worn his new camouflage hat which has a flap to cover the back of the neck. We had a quiet night in the cottage with James quaffing water and painkillers.

This morning I went out to get James a Covid test because he has so many of the current symptoms, especially the sore throat. However it was negative, and Cat has mentioned to me that there is a bad summer cold going about. So if you add to that the sheer length of time that James spent in the direct glare of the sun, I think that he has a bad cold plus a touch of heat exhaustion, despite his best efforts to stay hydrated. So today we spent most of the day in the cottage which is fairly cool thanks to its thick walls (it’s a very old building) and went out for a short walk during the day and another walk and a drink in a nearby pub in the evening.Today Cirencester’s temperature was about 32 degrees, going outside you ran into a wall of heat. It was still in the high twenties in the evening, very warm indeed, we could feel the residual heat rising from the road. I read that the temperature reached 38.1 deg in Suffolk today. The all time high temperature recorded in the UK was 25th July 2019, when it reached 38.7 deg in Cambridge. I wonder if tomorrow will surpass that?