Snow Mail Travel Chaos....

Surely the headline for tonight's Evening Standard

It's Very Dangerous Here

So tonight we braved the 'killer fog' and went out to grab some food for Christmas the holidays . We ended up queueing here for over 40 minutes for cheese (only). We had some banter with the fellow queuees, and got free hot chocolate and cakey things, so all was not lost. And the staff were all foreign, how cosmopolitan!! They even spoke French to each other. It was sortof all the best bits of Med food transported to London. And cheap! Tuna, £18 a tin. Chocolates, £85 a kilo. Ham, £150 a kilo (well it was Jamon Iberico)....

Off out to serial killer country tomorrow, if the fog doesn't get us first......

Notes from a heatwave

3 days over 30C does not constitute a heatwave - it’s called ‘Summer’.

It is not necessary to remind people that London is hotter than Rio, Rome, the Canaries and the Bahamas. It won’t be for long.

Carry water with you everywhere. Even on a ten-minute tube trip and sip from it at 60-second intervals, thousands of people die of dehydration every year in Britain you know.

Moan about the heat – that will bring back grey skies and drizzle. Then moan about that.

It is not necessary to run in tracksuit pants and a long sleeved top when the temperature is over 30C.