Twenty-eight degrees Celsius at 10:05pm. It's going to be one of those long sleepless nights that feels like day with the curtains drawn. The sheets on the bed will be hot. I'll put some spearmint oil into the diffuser to cool things down and read my book until I fall asleep, which will be god-knows-when.
The hot cup of tea I'm drinking is surprisingly refreshing. They say that about tea. I can drink it and drink it and drink it, regardless of the weather. A bit like a good hot Indian curry - the best thing of all to eat in really hot weather.
It feels like the tropics tonight. A few things are missing. The sound of air conditioners providing the bass drone to accompany the chirruping of the crickets. The smell of jasmine hanging in the air. It wasn't even there earlier, at dusk. A translucent gecko running up the wall to decorate the area just below the architrave. The dentist's drill whirr of mosquitoes. I don't mind about that one missing.
To escape the heat I went to a 5pm movie. (Also justified by the lack of a television at the moment and it's cheap Tuesday.) I love the lingering coolness of my skin after I being held in refrigeration for a couple of hours. It's not lingering anymore.
My ears feel hot. My skin feels tacky. My eyes feel squinty. My feet feel swollen. My eye lids are sweaty.
I'm going to have an icy cold shower and lie in front of the fan. Like a line of toothpaste squeezed onto the brush. Inert. Waiting...
The Bureau says (I love that term, "the Bureau", sounds terribly official) there are storms coming and temperature will drop when they arrive. I expect that I will have just succumbed to sleep when they hit. I may not notice. I received a telephone call on my mobile the other morning at 3am and didn't notice a thing.
Hope I didn't answer.
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