I'm hoping for stifling heat in Paris this August. It has been cold and rainy in August in Paris for the last 5 years.>>

be careful what you wish for, K,.....well you know the rest of the quotation as well as I do. though i tend to agree with you, as the best bits of our summer last year, and for the previous few years, were april and September.

so bring on the boiling hot summer - that's so long as i don't have to work and can go to the beach every day of course.