Last week was awkward for many of us.

I found myself back on a bike (to the disgust of those who’d cared for me in hospital when I got knocked off nearly two years again).

But after being told “no more Santander for you”, I reverted to the tubes. To get West or East you need the district or circle line , which seemed closed when I tried them or the Central line which was rather hot.

The bottom of this chart (not shown). shows the two winners for passengers

There is a  comfort factor here, I notice that the chart published by LRT and posted by Mark does not include the temperature of the district and circle lines. I would be interested to see what percentage of trains on all these lives were running.

I took to walking or taking busses to avoid trains that when they ran were so hot that I felt I needed basting properly to arrive at my destination cooked and ready to be eaten!

I wonder how many vulnerable made it to whatever meetings they’d arranged. I went to a lot of meetings both at people’s offices and conferences. My experience of being inside was that it was a blessing. But to many I felt obliged to wear a suit and on two days a ties.

I know that I sound old but a lifetime’s habit cannot be relinquished. Others wore a shirt and many wore shorts. I felt a little awkward in their presence in offices with air-conditioning. It reminded me of World Cup dehydration breaks in the rain storm that we had for the England game in New Jersey last night!

So much has been made of climate change that I feel stupid to repeat the obvious. But I will! Climate Change has been dealt with so far, by trying to stop it. We now need to do something about coping with it!

It felt last week like it did in London during COVID. A few people making essential journeys despite red warnings not to. Meanwhile most people staying inside – inside in air conditioned offices not co-mingling in the sunshine.

This must be doing a lot of people’s heads in. Is this what the future will be? If so, we need the getting from one place to another to be easier. We need to make our clothing appropriate to tropical climates and we need to find ways to enjoy ourselves.

This of course mainly applies to wrinklies to me. What co-mingling I saw was from “da yout” who gathered outside the pubs in Blackfriars to drink and vape. Hang about – what did I say? Last week was no way to carry on – maybe I really am too old for City life!