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Yes - you can guess correctly the inspiration for this thread. We are having this weather - a hot (or "a scorcher" as The Sun would have said back in the 1980s) summer at the moment, but what about hot summers in the past?
The times when a Wall's Feast melted away before having a chance to bite into it; Putting the Ambre Solare on the legs and feet to avoid sunburn; Argos running out of electric desk fans to sell; females bearing a bit more than usual in the leg department; and having "can't be bothered to do any work today because of the heat" days and wishing that one was on the beach in Skegness or any other coastal resort facing the North Sea.
The big one of 1976 was a couple of years before I was born, but apparently it broke all records at the time - does anyone remember that one? Was it really all Demis Roussos and nothing else back then? And they had the cheek of giving us package holidays to Spain back then - what a pity.
Others I remember were 1990 around the start of August where the thermometers were reaching 99 degrees Fahrenheit, and whatever that was in Celsius - the staff at Mr Kipling were sent home as the factory was exceedingly warm. There was 2003 as well and that was boiling.
It's a pity that the weather forecasters don't use Fahrenheit anymore (I suppose it was the pounds and ounces of temperature measuring), and using Fahrenheit made things sound even hotter. I suppose the Met Office retired it along with Michael Fish around 15 years ago.
Quite appropriately for the "last day of June" - the day I am writing this one - I think of Bobby Goldsboro's hit Summer - The First Time which must have been risqué even by 1973 standards.
Any memories of heatwaves and hot summers in the past? Or if you like, 1976 and all that?
The times when a Wall's Feast melted away before having a chance to bite into it; Putting the Ambre Solare on the legs and feet to avoid sunburn; Argos running out of electric desk fans to sell; females bearing a bit more than usual in the leg department; and having "can't be bothered to do any work today because of the heat" days and wishing that one was on the beach in Skegness or any other coastal resort facing the North Sea.
The big one of 1976 was a couple of years before I was born, but apparently it broke all records at the time - does anyone remember that one? Was it really all Demis Roussos and nothing else back then? And they had the cheek of giving us package holidays to Spain back then - what a pity.
Others I remember were 1990 around the start of August where the thermometers were reaching 99 degrees Fahrenheit, and whatever that was in Celsius - the staff at Mr Kipling were sent home as the factory was exceedingly warm. There was 2003 as well and that was boiling.
It's a pity that the weather forecasters don't use Fahrenheit anymore (I suppose it was the pounds and ounces of temperature measuring), and using Fahrenheit made things sound even hotter. I suppose the Met Office retired it along with Michael Fish around 15 years ago.
Quite appropriately for the "last day of June" - the day I am writing this one - I think of Bobby Goldsboro's hit Summer - The First Time which must have been risqué even by 1973 standards.
Any memories of heatwaves and hot summers in the past? Or if you like, 1976 and all that?
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