Buns are indoors in their emergency indoor cage. They’re not happy about it but it’s just for a few hours.

Status:

Heatwave day three. There’s actually been a bit of a breeze but it’s not making anything cooler. If anything it’s more oppressive out there today. Brought the rabbits in this afternoon for the peak of the heat. The coolest part of our house was 26°c compared with 30°c on the floor of their run. Probably wasn’t necessary but best to be safe.

Have been experimenting with hanging wet towels in the living room which might be having an effect but I can’t be sure. Best tactic seems to be lying still with fans pointed at me. Should be a little cooler tomorrow but I suspect it’s going to take the house bricks a while to discharge the heat they’ve stored up.

Reading:

• Why this heatwave feels worse than the last one — Science on the BBC news site. You love to see it.
• The cozy catastrophists of cosplay doomerism — “Cozy catastrophe” being a Brian Aldiss term for characters who have a pretty good time while the world burns around them. This is about people who are sure AI is going to destroy civilisation but they’re just riding it out, getting paid to develop AI and drinking the good wine.
• Debunking the Telegraph’s obsession with the summer of 1976 — Even allowing for the fact that we were all kids back then, or are quite old now, so our memories are never going to be useful, the 1976 stuff that’s going around is some astonishingly brazen bullshit.
• The reality of life for young van dwellers priced out of Cornwall’s housing market — Comes with a good video that contrasts their life sleeping in laybys with those terrible van-life influencers.
• What happened to Britain’s window shades? — What indeed? Why the hooting heck doesn’t our house have any? If I wasn’t all CFS’ed I’d be up a ladder with a bunch of 2x4s and a bedsheet.

Watching:

• Heatwave Solved ‌(1:18)— It’s so cool in Colin Furze’s backyard bunker he sometimes needs to put the heating on.