Keeping the heat at bay

39 in the shade. Red alert in Occitanie.

In the winter, at some minus point, schools shut down because the heating can't deal with so much cold. At 10 a.m I had to move classrooms because there's nothing in place for excessive heat, but the school stayed open.

I did a few breadths of the canal then huddled up against n the shade of the wood pile to read.

Bernie dropped stones on me and flies snuffled round on my skin so, defeated by heat and dog and insects, I pulled the shutters to and went to bed with a Magnum