Heatwave

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a Sunday in July, midday in a heatwave

‘caravan beach’ fills with campers and tents

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sultry as summer in the south of France

Donegal unused to this weather

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pull down black blinds to the South

open all windows North

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dogs pant on the slate floor in the hall

fill water bowls almost hourly

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solar panels reach maximum

fill a bath for watering later

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so glad of the breeze from the sea

lifting the heavy geranium heads

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swifts on the red endangered list

guillemots declining steeply

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neighbour’s wayward cat has returned

the Times warns of two thousand extra deaths

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