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Tag: heatwave

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    Three(ish) Weeks In Spain

    With exceptions for those of us who had work to do at the start or end, my family and I just spent three weeks hopping around the East of Spain, featuring surfing, a theme park, exploring, dodging the heat, and - of course - a total solar eclipse.

    Read more - about 9 minutes (2030 words)

    • Article
    • posted 23 August, 2026
  • Firefighters pull hoses from a fire engine towards the inferno of a flaming cabin.

    "You saved my life!" (or: how my kids briefly thought I was a superhero)

    A misunderstanding by my kids this weekend briefly made them think that I'd pulled a stranger from a burning building... when in reality I only lent him a mobile phone charger.

    Read more - about 5 minutes (975 words)

    • Article
    • posted 19 July, 2026
  • An unexpected start to the kids' and I's glamping weekend last night when the static caravan behind our dome burned to the ground. We spent most of our night half way down a field watching the fire crews tackle the blaze.

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    A static caravan is engulfed in flames behind a dome tent, at night.

    (Nobody was injured; the residents were able to escape out of a window.)

    • Note
    • posted 18 July, 2026
  • A traffic cone sits atop a diving board at an outdoor swimming pool.

    Taking A Dive

    I had a second submission accepted to Curious Cones, one of the most-wonderful but also silly blogs I follow. But my third attempt came out blurry and didn't make it to the blog; ah well.

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    • posted 6 July, 2026
  • Illustration showing a flying monster passing in front of a digestive system diagram decorated with symbols of dice and punctuation marks, alongside a light switch toggling 'warm blooded' and 'cold blooded' modes.

    How the European heatwave fucked me up

    I've been somewhat-offline for the last few days, after a heatwave lead to a heat illness lead to an opportunistic infection lead to me lying in bed and groaning. But I'm getting back to normal, slowly.

    Read more - about 6 minutes (1327 words)

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    • 3 comments
    • posted 30 June, 2026
  • Some mornings... you just gotta make a whole damn litre of coffee.

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    (for iced coffee purposes, of course; and definitely not just for me!)

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    • posted 26 June, 2026
  • Demmy would like to know why I haven't turned off the UK's heatwave yet. ๐Ÿฅต

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    Close up of the face of a fawny French Bulldog with her tongue blepping out to the side.

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    • 2 comments
    • posted 25 June, 2026
  • Iced coffee and air con. Possibly the only things that'll keep me sane, working in the UK's current heatwave (especially with the schools closed and kids sent home!).

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    Dan, a white man with a small beard and a blue ponytail, holds a pint if iced coffee on front of a residential portable air conditioner unit.

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    • posted 24 June, 2026

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