Are you sitting comfortably?

Of course you’re not; it’s been to hot to sit. It’s also been too hot to stand, lie and definitely too hot to sleep.

In typical British style we have been waiting to finally get some good weather and when it happened it was too hot.

We weren’t being ungrateful, it really was too hot.

The Government held two emergency Cobra meetings because of the heatwave, which can mean only one thing; that meeting room must have great air-con.

The Met Office were talking about temperatures around 40C and that is hot.

Those are foreign-style temperatures. We’re not meant to be in heat like that unless you’re sitting by a pool after nicking all the buffet breakfast.

Being hot when you have nothing to do is a treat but when you have to still wear a suit or travel on a rush-hour bus it’s less than ideal.

It’s not bad for the economy though. Figures show an increase in the sale of items like loose clothing, fans and barbecues.

I myself have made a heat purchase.

I converted my shed into an office and studio for the radio show and online streaming I do.

In the heatwave it’s been baking in there.

I’m sure there’s an audience who want to watch people sweat online but that’s not who I’m after.

So now I have air conditioning in the shed.

If only the electricity prices would drop I could afford to turn it on.

Hot weather brings an increase in sales of bikinis and sun glasses.

Those two are probably linked and not just because the sun is out.

Most glasses tell you how much UV light is blocked by them. Some people would be more interested to know how much they hide your eyes.

It was a hot enough to be a threat to health.

The Met Office even issued a Red Warning, the first time it had done it for heat.

It made more sense than the week before when they issued an Amber Warning.

That sounded like it was called that because it was so hot at night you might mess the bed.

It’s nice that the Government had some meetings but I am not really sure what use they can be.

They can tell the NHS and other services to be ready but they probably were already.

I have been thinking about it a lot and the only thing the Government could do with be reverse the voltage through all of those wind farms we see all over the countryside.

It would turn them into fans and could cool us all down.