Outskirts of London, and at 9 pm it's 26 degC in the garden according to my outside thermometer, and 28 degC in the hall of the house according to the thermostat.

We sleep in the loft and that'll be off the scale.

It's not going to be a comfortable night for sleeping.

I'm grumpy, wife's hot and bothered and the kids can barely move for listlessness.

I hear it's even hotter tomorrow.