@Shaun69
It's funny to me because no one I speak to seems to remember that it was hotter than this last August. Yes, that's right. It got up to 38 degrees C (our hottest recorded temperature apparently) and was close to that mark for many days. That was London, but I assume it was not so different in Sussex. Yet no one I have mentioned this to here has any recollection of it.
I, on the other hand, remember it VERY well. I had two guests staying, one from Egypt and one from Saudi Arabia. Well, you would have thought they would be used to much more heat than that, but they were also used to air conditioning. They camped out in my kitchen/diner, which is the coolest place in the house (bit of a problem as that's where I work) and would did not leave the premises for days. They were also used to servants, so not housetrained at all. They went through every piece of crockery and cutlery (and I have a lot) every day but didn't know how to wash up so I had to wash it all again. They kept leaving the fridge open so that had a major malfunction basically until they left. Lovely, friendly people though!
Meanwhile, a crow dropped dead on the pavement outside my house and some kind person decided to kick it into my front garden (well in the gap between my garden and the neighbour's). The trees were full of hundreds of crows very loudly mourning for it. I called the Council but they did not come the next day as promised but a few days later. Meanwhile, my neighbour, who has a 'feather phobia' was freaking out. It was not good.
My very fluffy black cat decided to go missing for two weeks. I was worried he had melted or maybe spontaneously combusted.
This heatwave has been far less stressful.😂