Weekending

After a weekend of energy sapping, headache and nausea inducing heat (43.7 deg C on Saturday) the weather is much fresher today.  Still hot but nothing like as hot (or humid) as the past two days.  The night time temperature in our bedroom with windows open and ceiling fan running was 32 deg. C.  Our garden is south facing which means it gets full sun all day with no shade at all.  I found an off-set parasol in a local shop for a really good price but we did our usual thing of "thinking about it" rather than buying immediately and when we went to buy it we found a staff member dismantling the display model for a couple who were waiting to buy it - sadly the last one.  So we still have no shade in our garden.