Hello from London on a 34 C bank holiday Monday. I’ve lived in hotter places; I’ve even lived in places that were both hotter and more humid; yet the UK remains one of the worst places to be in a heatwave. There’s little air conditioning, and British houses lack the thermal mass to regulate the temperature downwards. All they can do is keep the sun off, at best. Friday was also hot, and I decided to spend it walking in the countryside. I followed Saturday Walkers Club’s Harlington to Flitwick route, cutting off a couple of kilometres between Priestly Farm and Flitwick at the end to get back home at a reasonable time. I don’t know the exact distance, but it was at least 20 km. Huge daisies in a field somewhere near Harlington I saw plenty of wildlife: a deer (possibly a muntjac); a cock pheasant; a couple of red kites; some kind of large raptor being harried by a crow until it flew away. It was hot and tiring, but a good way to spend a day off. We did half of our Sanshinkai practice in…
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