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Merde: we have another heatwave this week, with severe weather warnings in London today and tomorrow. 

What the absolute NOOOOO.
Also: why do 30°C and 35°C warrant warnings but 37°C doesn’t?

This week, Cat Daddy will be spending a whole day babysitting a two- and a five-year-old. I will be teaching teenagers and taking a group of them on a theatre trip. I don’t know which of us will have the worse time – I think probably him – but we are bracing ourselves for the most horrendous week of our lives. 

Meanwhile, Louis Catorze will be snoozing in shady spots all day then, when we return home, enjoying ice cube massages. Despite heatwaves being bad news for black animals covered in fur, his week will be far from the most horrendous of his life. In fact, he will have a blast. 

Something about this arrangement doesn’t quite seem fair, yet here we are. And I bet you have a similar sort of deal with your furry overlords, don’t you? 

It’s all right for some.

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23 responses to “Une chaleur infernale”

  1. Kate Crimmins avatar

    Umm…no and they are not allowed to read your blog. It would give them bad habits!

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      They will find out anyway. I bet the squirrels will tell them!

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      1. Kate Crimmins avatar

        Probably! There was one on the window today. Beds went flying, cats a hunched up. It’s next to my computer desk so it startled me too!

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        1. iamthesunking avatar

          PLEASE get CCTV at your work station!

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  2. curating happy avatar

    Perhaps 37C doesn’t get the warning because the assumption is you’ll already have spontaneously combusted?

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Well, quite! There will be no people alive to require the warning!

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  3. Audrey Driscoll avatar

    My sympathies. It seems that summer has become the season to get through rather than enjoy.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      I dread it every year. At least the Sun King has no such worries!

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      1. Audrey Driscoll avatar

        As long as there are ice cubes and willing masseurs.

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        1. iamthesunking avatar

          There are. The freezer is full. 🧊

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  4. mmechapeau avatar
    mmechapeau

    Unfortunately, horrendous weeks seem to be due to happen more and more frequently. Courage.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Yes, and I suspect they will get worse!

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  5. sevencatsandcounting avatar

    The Sun King will probably love the heat, followed by his ice cube massages. He has you well trained.

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      He seems to have his routine on point: sleeping all day in his Kate Spade shoe box, having an ice cube massage, then gadding about outside from dusk onwards.

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  6. mcmcneil1 avatar
    mcmcneil1

    Are he two-and five-year-olds human or feline ? And where is Louis going to be while all this is going on ?

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      They’re human, so harder work than most felines. Catorze will be at home, whilst Cat Daddy goes out to do the babysitting.

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      1. mcmcneil1 avatar
        mcmcneil1

        So Catorze will be the only one truly on vacation !

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        1. iamthesunking avatar

          His life is one permanent holiday!

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  7. Dr. CaSo avatar

    Je vous plains de tout mon coeur! But Louis is absolutely hilarious, his look is absolutely murderous, I love it ❤

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      Erm, this is his normal face …

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  8. cat9984 avatar

    The cats never understand when I have to close the windows to keep the heat out. I love the pictures of Louis after his ice bath

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    1. iamthesunking avatar

      He looks so funny, doesn’t he? 🤣🤣🤣

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