Notes and links from Sat 27 June

Wally found a new cool spot in the garden, with a buffet. Status: Heatwave day five? Temperatures were still pretty high and the house has definitely not cooled down yet, so yeah, I reckon so. But it has been overcast and breezy for most of today, and as I’m writing this a rain shower occurred, so we’re definitely nearly done. For now, anyway. Forecast shows 30°c on Monday—week. Yay. I managed to avoid expending my new-found joie de vivre from having rested well through the heatwave, but I have been plotting for how to keep the house cooler for the next one. A friend mentioned they’d opened their loft hatch to get it to act as a chimney, pulling cool air into the rest of the house. Our loft is like an oven and I’m pretty sure it warms the bedrooms, but the roofers did put a couple of vents in there to help with damp so I figured I’d give it a go. No visible draft so I’m going to have a look at these so-called vents, once the temperature is less hostile up there, and see if they…