Maybe Eastern Sydney in the middle of autumn.

[reddragdiva]

Summer Dress in Knightsbridge for Ladies of Leisure: there is no outfit so glamorous or elegant that it can't be utterly sabotaged by wearing flipflops. I realise this is the District of Inelegant Footwear, but WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

redcountess will be going into the IND in person to get her application to stay in the UK put through quick smart. So I got some photos done. I look like a criminal who is particularly pleased with himself. Which means it will look like my passport, on which (so my mother says) I resemble the third Kray twin.

redcountess and I had a lovely weekend in, despite both being ill. The back yard is actually nice to sit in now. Lunchtime visits from arkady today and tomorrow, and then off to St. Albans in the evening, health permitting.

Given the prospect of this, may I just mention my air-conditioned office, with a server room that is climate-controlled at 20°C and 39% humidity. Even if getting here does involve the Victoria broiler. British industry needs to realise the Australian lesson that air-conditioning is a plot to get people to show up at work.

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"Obviously, safety comes first but many people will be asking why our rail network can't cope with what is, after all, a relatively mild climate," [Hounshan] said.

35C+ and sunny means rails at 50C or 60C, 70+ degrees warmer than their low operating temperature. That means rails that are 70+ degrees of heat expansion *longer* than they usually are, in the same space. And, I don't doubt, that that's right up against the top margins of what the railbeds were designed for. One does NOT want to be in a 100mph carriage and hear a *SPANG* as an outside curve rail decides to act out its life goal to become a javalin.

"relatively mild climate" may mean that the extremes are rare, not that they never happen.