Well, I'll admit it, we are in the few days a year when airco would be good. It is raining, and we have a thunderstorm overhead, but it is still 25 C here at 23.30 :(
More rain and storms for the rest of the week, with hot temperatures to go with them. Yuk.

Hi Goodwill,

I'll put in your order now!

where else are you headed for?

regards, ann

Hi Ann.

We will try to see as much of Cornwall and West Devon as possible. Plan is to travel to UK via Shanghai, then Ireland, Czech Rep, various Germany and Italy, then Barbados, Yellowstone NP and home (30th Anniversary Trip).

The weather does seem about the best of Britain there "on the foot". We planned to stay around Port Isaac but I must say St Ives sounds like an interesting alternative.

My ancestor Lambertus left Utrecht in the late 1600's and arrived in Exeter. In our line of genealogy two generations of Lambertus followed, first lived in Listwithiel and the next around Cambourne. For many generations Cambourne has been regarded as the "spiritual home" although many travelled on to London/Other UK, USA and Australia.

I tracked my distant relatives down on a genealogy website to find that in one Family there are 12 brothers and sisters who all live or lived recently in Cambourne.

Back to the weather: we were hoping to swim in the sea there on the northern coast, but I guess the water temperatures may be rather chilly.

For an outstanding report on the vageries of the British weather, put in "The weather forecast by the Mastersingers" on Google and watch the You-Tube video. It is great.

Hi good will,

Back to the weather: we were hoping to swim in the sea there on the northern coast, but I guess the water temperatures may be rather chilly.>>

in June???? you'll need a wet suit, even on the south coast [which really isn't very far away].

while you are here, the main county archive for "cousin jacks" [being the family of the cornish who left, mainly to go mining] is in Redruth. have a look at www.chycor.co.uk.

miners from Cornwall and their families went all over the world. recently, the mayor of Camborne went to Mexico on a good will ! mission, where she met the descendants of many cornish miners. there are still people which cornish surnames and yes, they eat pasties.

Port Isaac is nice but St. Ives offers more - it's bigger and the location makes it better for touring around. also it's closer to Camborne. wil you have a car or use public transpotr? -if the latter, Port Isaac would be quite difficult.

regards, ann

And Cornish miners went also to Michigan's UP or Upper Peninsula as did many Finnish miners

Now the Finns are credited with bringing the Pasties that are still popular in the area - even though they came with the Cornish miners.

I had always regarded London and Melbourne, Australia as having extremely variable diurnal weather.

However here in Lindfield, just north of Sydney, Australia, the temperature rapidly dropped from 16C to 6C yesterday afternoon. We then had a massive soft, wet hailstorm and the effect was as if we had been hit by 6 inches of snow. I have never seen anything like it in Sydney.

So I can believe anything now and there seems little use trying to predict the weather any more.

And to Ann from Camborne, thank you for the links. Interestingly I have not found any of our ancestors linked to tin mining there, but I have found a young fellow, who shares the same name as me and who works for the local gas company.

It's too bloody hot in London again today.

Take a cold shower - summer i am informed ends on Tuesday

our average high here is 85 degrees and it's usually humid - unlikely to reach that in a typical limey summer i 'd of thunk

It's 30 degrees C today (Cambridge, UK)

PS One of the near geriatrics can probably translate that into Farenheit....

A lot of the problem is to do with how people are used to temperatures, and how buildings are constructed. I used to live where it was regularly 30C+ , but anything under 18C was considered cold, and 15C was extra duvet and fire weather.

Today is one of the possibly 10 days a year that the UK "Needs AC". Fortunately for me, this year the lab installed cooling - for years we have had to work in 80 degrees plus wearing heavy lab coats.

86F :-) - I'll get my zimmerframe

And beer sales are zooming also to record levels - pub beer gardens are packed.

I think the tube needs AC for most of the summer - even the days when it's only lukewarm 'upstairs'.

Or those trains they have on the Metro that are open their full length.

We've just had a thunderstorm here in Wiltshire. Three sunny days and a thunderstorm, that's summer over. Winter woollies next.

And to Ann from Camborne>>

Good Will - go wash your mouth out. My son, a dyed in the wool "Red" [Redruth rugby club supporter] would be horrified to read this.

to be accurate, we live near St. Day, once the richest square mile in the world, which makes 'Druth, as it is locally known, our nearest town. Sadly, those riches are long gone.

my statistics regarding camborne's sunshine came straight from the national BBC weatherforecast.

BTW, Radio One [my daughter's station of choice, sad child, that AND supporting Arsenal] had a reporter stationed in Redruth ALL weekend, to report on the curfew. what she found to do after the first 5 minutes I really can't imagine, except sit on a beach, for which, of course, Redruth is renowned.

the rain arrived about 2 hours ago, thus thwarting my gardening plans. and the heat-wave forecast for Iceland has been cancelled.

:-<

regards, ann

It's still too bloody hot in London.

annhig - thank the Queen that the heat wave for Iceland has been canceled or else all the ice may have melted before your arrival.

annhig - thank the Queen that the heat wave for Iceland has been canceled or else all the ice may have melted before your arrival.>>

"thank the Queen" - what's she got to do with Icelandic weather?

they have a president.

regards, ann