Hot!

You would think at 37C Shadow (dog) would love a cold shower outside. This is far from the case, and if Hive account@bingbabe did not have a foot on his lead he would be bolting away from us.

Yet he's quite happy to languish within the stinking dark, dingy, murky waters of the Leeds / Liverpool canal all day.

After getting clean he ignores the paddling pool hastily placed in the middle of the garden and instead, rolls around trying to get dirty.

Hive account@bingbabe loves it, though the freezing water is quite a shock to the feet. Shadow treats it as a rather large dog bowl and drinks from it.

The insane weather ends tomorrow with a max temperature of 21C. That's below the seasonal average. Is there anywhere that has crazier weather than the UK?