Of Mad Dogs and Englishmen
One is still communing in Romania where the weather forecast for today indicates another day of enforced confinement as heat-related deaths are beginning to be reported across the country. While temperatures nudge the mercury past 41 degrees today, one is developing an unhealthy fondness for ones air conditioning - a kind of automated punkawalla. Today is one for burying oneself in an Evelyn Waugh of whom it was once said "it is surprising that she has time what with her problem page!"