I feel acclimatation has kicked up another gear 
I have 2 neighbours with 2 enormous kaki trees. Neither gather the fruit, so if my timing is righ, I get to make several kilos of curious, but very tasty jam.
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Oh my! Where are you? Somewhere very hot? Here has hot days but not like the south. (Brittany about 40 kms south of Rennes) My local Pep. is ace, though. And will advise, I’m sure. What about the bananas?
Tarn here. Presently very hot. Mixed climate i.e. when it’s hot, it’s hot ; when it’s cold, it’s bloody cold.
Currently no bananas.
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I have a (fairly small and recently-planted) persimmon which gave us about 7 fruit last year 
I love seeing the trees in the autumn.
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I’d be happy with the weather if I wasn’t working in it. We have been doing a driveway for UK client before he comes out next Friday. We explained that work is behind because of the extreme heat. He told us that he knew it was “a little warm” out in France but he needs it finished as he is bringing friends out. It actually will be ready in time but only by working full days in this heat.
If he makes one negative comment he’ll find himself buried underneath it!!!
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I find anything over 26C to be uncomfortable. Thank goodness for the air conditioner in the kitchen / diner.
I left Australia in 1989 finally as I couldn’t handle the regular 40°C heat. Maybe being almost 50 at the time was a key moment. Great country, fabulous people, with still almost all my real friends still there.
Here and I have a push along motor mower, with a 1 in 10 sloped garden, but I love the early dawn hours, but only water the garden before it gets light, so as not to annoy the neighbours. Incidentally we all have an underground lake that we use for garden and farm watering which is great as it costs nothing except a small pump.
“If he makes one negative comment he’ll find himself buried underneath it!!!” @des10e
Tarring and feathering him would have more visual impact on the neighbourhood?
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These types are about aren’t they? You bring to mind a neighbour of mine in the Lot who ran a small gite complex. Despite warnings of ‘do not take glasses into the pool’ there was one up’imself English twit who told him to ‘get stuffed, I have paid for this holiday and the place is mine until I leave’ or words to that effect.
He obviously didn’t know he owner was a retired WO1 in the Royal Marines Commandos, but he soon found out and his holiday was immediately truncated! Beautiful, although there was some fleeting sympathy for the wife and two young kids.
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I don’t function well above 22°C so I have been doing garden work in the evenings. Our bedroom has a south facing “Velux” type roof window and was becoming unbearably hot until I stuck a piece of metallised insulation to the outside of the glass with double sided tape. Made a big difference and I cope better with the daytime temperatures after a good night’s sleep.
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Gradually getting everything together, so that I manage the next Wave better than the last. Good spray bottle for me, and all my clothes and hair, not to be soaking wet, just a fine cool spray…
Collected 1200 litres of rain and river, so all the roses and young fruit trees will get ‘little, but often’ and not wilt. My tonnelle, on the balcony, is becoming more shady, daily, because the grape vines don’t seem to care how hot it gets, and want to spread out. So I’m encouraging them to spread, right over it, plus the eight meters of silver/layered insulation, draped over the tonnelle, too. Not elegant, but efficient. Deep shade. Some of the larger trees look a bit lop sided, but they rarely fall down except in high winds, even the dead ones, and they are mostly enormous now and very green. Under the big trees, there’s a difference in temperature of several degrees. Any chores or shopping trips, start as early morn. as possible. The most beautiful time of day. Evening, the bugs enjoy too much. One just got my elbow.
I have found some old thin cotton sheets, and will make myself a huge hooded kaftan, I think…maybe tomorrow morn. Loose and flowing, very comfortable! Let me think…what else.
Ah, my tiny boat is parked in a very shallow bit of river, I can paddle and splash, as much as I like, not much water in it now, and sit under the trees with ice cold fruit juice and the book about London, I always mean to read to the end, but haven’t yet. Its by Gaugin’s grandmother, circa 18 something. French. Flora Tristan 1803 to 1844. One of the first ever feminists and socialists. of that time. “Promenades Dans Londres” “Cette Ville est un monstre, aux membres gigantesques et dont la tête n’est pas plus grosse que celle d’une fourmi”.
Et la tête c’est quoi ?
Ne me dis pas “la tête”! 
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Je ne me prends pas la tête…avec “ne me dis pas “la tête”,
In my opinion, Flora was taking one of the first feminist swipes at the Nasty 1%. The micro minority, the ant, that she saw as responsible, as’the head’ for the hideous cruelty on a grand scale, the inequality, injustice, men v women, rich v poor, in all huge cities but London was especially horrible. because of the rampant brutality of prostitution, deprivation, the position of women as always subservient to men, so that the very poorest, the outcasts of society, still may have someone " below” them, to abuse. ie. A woman. So that women brought to such poverty and degredation, sought other women even lower in esteem, to sell their bodies, young girls and children too.
For 19th century Trumps and Epstein’s. In London.
We live at Aux Tetes.
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And there a TV show about Grosses Têtes… but no telly.
That’s all I’ve got on Têtes.
