It's about a million degrees. We have been walking around town today showing our Chinese guest around, but after a few hours both she and I were feeling rather ill from the heat so we took the bus home again, and it was about a million and three degrees on the bus. The cats are lying like flat rugs in cool corners of the terrace and only waving an ear now and then to show they are alive. No rain for a couple of weeks, and none in sight

Hmm. I think this may be the first time in my life that the thought of getting into a pool, or a lake, is not unpleasant. That's how warm it is. (I am talking about a pool or a lake where there are no other people around, because that aspect of it is still horrible.)