Today I am very happy that the grassy portion of the yard is only 2x10m and partially shaded. Didn’t have a chance to mow it earlier today and tomorrow’s not possible.
Not liking the predicted 32ºC for later today, but at least we’re supposed to go below 18ºC tonight.
I think everybody’s at the lake - it’s super quiet, except for one person trimming their hedge. 
Not my thing, but happy that the Street Parade got good weather.
Something fishy here.
Lovely blue sky, a few tiny, pretty, thin clouds floating about. But: it cooled down tangibly from one minute to the next and there is a slight wind gently moving the leaves.
I won’t be fooled. Harvested my mint this morning and hung it out in the sun to dry but just now I took it inside. No free Moroccan tea outside my window tonight.
This morning I was weeding under the hazelnut tree when I heard a little thump…and three nuts landed on the ground by my hand. The harvest should be a month away, not now!!
Geee, fate can throw it at your head and you don’t get it:
Thanks, I already have my Prince Charming, but this is a lovely film.
Are the wishes inevitably limited to one topic??
I’d definitely use them for something else 
You need to be careful of wishes…you might get them:
That was one of the works on the syllabus for English for the maturity here this year, I worked on it with a couple of my private students.
Normally, I’m not a big fan of the heat, but I really enjoyed it on Saturday. Maybe because the kids were away and I had the weekend to myself. I cycled to Basel and then did a run in the sweltering heat from the Novartis part of the river until Roche and then swam back, which was very refreshing!
Seeing pumpkins on sale by the roadsides already too.
Many Swiss kids are “Back to School” next week. Summer must be over.
I hope all the others too.
And a whole batch of new first-graders. Be kind to the new kindergartners too.
Why is there no proper English word for kindergarten? Does that grade not exist in GB?
in the UK we have nursery, pre-school and reception.
The English word is Kindergarten. They just knicked it from some Teutons.
Ours don’t start back until the end of the month so have a few more weeks to go yet.
Another week of mid-30’s temps until we might get some relief from next Wednesday onwards; down to 27-25C instead and maybe some rain with it. 
Hi! Being an architect, I agree that lots of buildings in Switzerland are not yet designed to cope with the new summer temperatures… same as in many countries. New builds are starting, first because of the regulations that go in that direction. Second, because of the general awareness. For renovation it’s different, because obviously nobody is forced to intervene on the general energy efficiency improvements, unless your renovation has a cost of at least 20% of the ECA value. Having said that, many times it’s clients that are not prone to this kind of architecture: the clients’ ambitions for extremely large openings, open spaces, design rather than energy efficient details are not going in the right direction. Moreover, energy efficiency improvements mean investing in technical aspects that you will “feel”, but not “see” and, unfortunately, clients are often more interested in reproducing what they saw on social media rather than on the actual future well-being… and if they have to choose where to put their money, they will most of the time choose the aesthetic aspects. Bottom line, it’s everyone’s responsibility: the architect needs to be able to address those aspects and make the client aware. On the other side, it’s up to the client to make good decisions on what to invest their money into. As architects we can advise them, but it’s not our money and we can’t force them, unless something is legally required, in that case we can refuse to proceed.
We has a huge thunderstorm this afternoon. Dropped over 60mm of rain in less than an hour. Temps dropped 8°. Tomorrow? Warning of continued heat wave.
