4 May 06 Today’s headlines
“TUBE WILTS IN HEATWAVE”
Well 26 degrees Celsius, the first ‘warm’ day of the year, is called a heatwave here! For those in the US, that’s 77 degrees Fahrenheit.. This brings back memories of last summer in Ithaca NY where we had regular temperatures over 85 degrees F. In NYC I remember the temp hit 105F/40C. Now that is a heatwave! The thing with the tube is, though, there is absolutely no air conditioning and it is close to unbearable at this temperature, so ‘wilting’ is an accurate assessment. Before today I fully believed it would never get this warm in London, but I’m glad I’m wrong. It’s the first day I ventured out without a jacket… HEATWAVE!
The other news today is it’s local election day. Surprisingly enough since Matt and I are Commonwealth citizens and residents here, we are entitled to vote - we even registered and have polling cards. Unfortunately we haven’t done much research on candidates and the only issues affecting us thus far are recycling (non-existent) and health care (bureaucracy). This means we might not exercise our vote, but polls are open until 10PM so you never know. Over the past week we’ve been exposed to some old-school neighbourhood campaigning. Two different nights a double-decker party bus drove by our flat with a guy talking/rapping political schtuff over a PA, then last night on Brick lane there was a procession of cars with Liberal Democrat signs in their windows and the first car played some abrasive propoganda through a loudspeaker… in Bengali. Needless to say we couldn’t understand, but the Brick Lane locals didn’t seem to pay much attention. The voting power rippling off that street is immense in this district, I’m guessing.
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