>I see that half of the US is baking, unable to set off your squibs, and the other half is suffereing floods.

We are in the baking part. It is currently 42C at 5:00pm (that's approximately 108F for us Yanks)!!!! We hardly ever get temps this high. A/C's been going non-stop.

> I don't know if you've heard buit a grate deal of the UK is still flooded after the wettest June on record, with £billions needed to fix it all up and many families having to leave their homes for up to a year.

Wow, didn't know you guys got hit so bad. Your house OK?

>It's a but like Katrina, only without the loss of life, washed away houses, poor black families, lootin' and a-shootin'... Wait a minute - it's NOTHING like Katrina.

LOL!

>It's still dull and showery now in July, We had a beautiful, hot, dry April - beach weather. Go figure.

Two words: GLOBAL WARMING <g>

We might be heading out to the UK in September. It'll start out as a business trip, but we'll tack on some extra vacation time while we're there to head on over to the continent and spend a week or so in Chamonix.

~~Bonnie