30th July 2018 Tropical nights.

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Monday 30th 71-87F, light breeze, bright with some cloud. Another 30C day is promised. Warm but cloudy on my walk across the harvested fields. Disturbed a large hare. Which dashed off.

Shopping ride imminent after morning coffee. And so it was. Warm at 82F but still cloudy. Only 7 miles. Saw a real, 5-bag cycle tourist and a couple of blokes out training [dawdling] on posh carbon. I had to go out in the car in the afternoon and the heat was awful.

Tuesday 31st 74-86F, bright but cloudy again with a bit of a breeze. Another warm night means the house is still hot. They call it tropical nights. We had a few small drops of rain yesterday with no cloud obviously responsible. The weather gods must be teasing us. Homes built on clay are cracking from the fall in the water table. I walked around the local fields by jumping over the hay rows still waiting for the baler. A harvester worked [noisily] on the field next door all morning. Hot and windy now. No ride today.

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