Well, my intentions for sleeping in the potting shed last night didn't happen.
Video editing was playing up with this new software. And the video wouldn't save...
A friend needed a shoulder to cry on.
It just takes a second or less to make an absolute pig's ear of everything, and affect the rest of your life (and maybe the lives of others).
Life can be so fragile...
I fell asleep in the middle of all this. I was overloaded with her problems.
Then woke up.
It was pitch black outside.
It was 11pm.
Too late to set up for the night in the potting shed.
I was on my bed guarding my bedroom door which was open to the garden, and the wild beasties, and when I went to look for Midnight, he was guarding the other back door which opens up into the garden, from the wild beasties.
I decided we were probably quite safe enough with the doors open to the garden. In all probability the wild beasties will not stir from their cool underground lairs in this heat.

I was still wrestling with this new video software. I thought I had learnt enough to do the simple essential bits, but it would not save.
I don't know whether the iPad was having enough of this heat or what, but finally I haphazardly deleted fragments of my video, and tried one more time. It saved this time. I didn't bother checking whether the video was good enough by this time, I just posted it on Instagram and YouTube.

Then I locked the two back doors. All fans and humidifiers and misters were going. Midnight refused to come in. I fell asleep.
About an hour later I awoke suddenly sitting bolt upright, with a jolt.
My bedroom was hot and airless.
I thought for a moment I had died because I wasn't breathing. I was in suspension. I couldn't breathe. I wasn't struggling to breathe. Everything was suspended. There was a weird sense of peace to not breathing. The air was too hot to take in a breath. On another level of thinking, I realised my personal fan round my neck had run out of battery power. My bedside cabinet fan had run out of water for the humidifier, and so had turned off. And the end of the bed fan and humidifier had done its duty for 9 hours, and so went on auto shut off.

Fortunately I had some spare small fans fully charged on the bed, and bottles of water. Got my fan system going again quickly. Tried to breathe...I was successful in breathing again. Flung the back door and bedroom door open again. It is still dark.

I am not closing those back doors tonight, and not until this heat wave is over....those badgers and foxes are the least of my problems.

Back garden temperature is 26C at this minute, and it's the same temperature inside the bungalow, more in the kitchen despite 3 fans going. That indoors bungalow temperature will rise quite a bit tonight.

This promised thunderstorm didn't materialise...

I need to move to a cold place where there is snow all year...

Or to a house which has a cold underground bunker....

Wild life video...a hotchpotch of clips put together...
58secs
Badgers & Foxes & a Cat
https://youtube.com/shorts/1MyRmDbQzNc?si=LZABlAQw1HxjRqR6

Creative...Kaleidoscope in Laboscope of wild flower Red Campion.

Have your best day.

I have been asleep on and off mostly today. Too hot for me to function....