Hot Summer Weather

A hot and steamy story from Blushes 72 A hot sun shone out of a clear blue sky over the whole of southern England on this June afternoon. It had been hot for several days now, prompting people to ask each other if it was going to be another of those long hot summers which the English climate does not normally bring. When the heat does things, not just to the cereal and potato crops for instance, but to people’s minds, their lives. Their minds affected by the unaccustomed weather so that they do things they would not normally consider. Could a summer like that be on the way? A summer of sun-madness as one might say. In Lady Sylvia Grantley’s drawing room in the Grantleys’ country place in Wiltshire where Lady Sylvia is taking tea this afternoon with her friend Mrs Miranda James the weather has indeed been referred to. Sylvia Grantley has been wondering if her roses might not be suffering in the heat and has expressed slight misgivi...