Too hot to live

[todayiamadaisy]

Walking past the reception desk yesterday, I heard Leeanne saying to someone on the phone, 'Well, get in out of the sun, you idiot!' That's not how she normally speaks to our doctors. When she'd hung up, she explained that it was her husband. Ah. They live on a farm thirty minutes inland and he was calling her from one of their paddocks to tell her he'd taken a thermometer out to see how hot it was. And how hot was it?

51.6C.

I think I have some sort of mental barrier about that. It was 45C in town, which is too hot, much, much too hot, but I can get my head around it. The idea of 50C, though, makes me want to lay down and die.

Fortunately the change came late yesterday afternoon and today is twenty-ish and pouring rain. I'm so much happier.