Sunset view from the garden. Phew 30 degrees here for the last few days. Predicted temperature is 31 today. Grace cat flattens herself to the cool stone path. Hedgehogs drinking from saucers of water. Bats feasting on insects over the pond. Baby frogs swarming in the long grass of the orchard. It’s too hot for me. 
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Bramble Garden 
I didn’t even venture outside until 5.00 p.m. yesterday. Much easier to work today. Even so, siesta hours are well and truly in force!
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I’ve been getting up at 5 to try to beat the heat. Amazed to see the garden isn’t showing any signs of stress. The plants seem to be loving the heat. I’m only watering the greenhouse and poly tunnel. I’m looking rather longingly at photos of the seaside. x
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J & D > ‘Britain’s hottest June since …’ We hear this kind of thing all the time. Very irritating! As if Britain is a single location! How do ‘they’ come up with statistics like this?
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Love this kind of view with the trees on the skyline, Karen. Here, according to our weather monitors, it has certainly been over 30 at times this week but they may not be entirely accurate – a tad on the warm side!
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The garden is coping with the heat better than I am, Cathy. The roses seem to love these temperatures. But I’m flagging now. Everything’s growing like mad. Salad crops in particular. The cucumbers seem to grow overnight!
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I rather like it and the evenings are magical.
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Just come in from the summerhouse. So glorious watching the sunset and heat haze over the back field. The wheat is growing like mad. Watched the bats circling the garden.they follow the same route over and over again. Fascinating to watch them. Hedgehogs snuffling in the borders. Just waiting to see if we have baby hogs this year. Had three last summer. Enjoy the good weather x
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Oh how lovely. I haven’t seen a hedgehog round here for years.
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We are a mile from the nearest village, so lane is nice and quiet and safe for them. Mostly see them dead on the busy roads. Such a shame.
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1976 was also a record year, I hope it doesn’t follow the same path, The drought then lasted untill September.
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I hope not Brian. I’ve had enough already. Hope you are managing to keep cool. x
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It’s been that temperature for several weeks here already. In my garden it is already 28°C by 8 in the morning and really only cools down from the mid 30’s at about 8 pm.
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It’s been the hottest June day for 40 years today. And I was setting out hundreds of lavender, salvia and rosemary plants for a new garden.Hot work! But the scent made up for it. Just come in from my garden. Have cut some flowers ahead of the rain that’s promised.
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That’s the difference we have 30+++ degrees and no rain for perhaps three months
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I always thought you were amazing Christina. Love your garden and all that you grow. But have even more admiration for you now. I’m really suffering in this heat. Can’t imagine three months of it. I’m starting to dream about ice cream. It’s that bad 🙂 xxx
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I’ve cream it Italian gelato 🍧 is always a great idea.
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Love Italian gelato. My daily treat when I visited Rome last spring. x
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Very pretty photo. Wow 176 years, that’s really something.
My thoughts for cool breezes are with you all.
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Thank you. Even the cats are flattening themselves against the limestone floors. They look like tiger rugs. Still, everything is growing like mad. Including the weeds. Thanks for reading and sending cool wishes 🙂 x
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Yep, far too hot to even think about what needs doing …. but glorious if you have time to just sit and soak it all in.
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One day…. 🙂 x
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It’s too hot for me as well. xx
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Phew, I’ve just cut some cucumbers from the plot. Not sure whether to eat them or cut two disks out to put on my eyes and lie down in a darkened room! Might do both! Double phew! All the best Mike x
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Stunning picture, wonderful words x
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Thank you. Do hope you are managing to keep cool there. I’m working in a walled garden tomorrow, so might go at crack of dawn. Will be baking there otherwise 🙂 x
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