Africa Hot!
July 12th, 2007 by Colin
Last summer a DJ on a local radio station cleverly coined the phrase “Africa Hot”. Every 10 minutes or so he’d shout out to his colleagues, “How hot is it?” and they’d reply, “Africa Hot”. Honestly, that day wasn’t that hot, it was in the mid twenties and there was a nice sea breeze.
Today however was hot, damn hot. No one can seem to agree on how hot it was either, some reports have it over 37 degrees! Having never been to Africa I can’t really comment on the comparison the DJ made, but I can imagine the Africans would certainly dispute it. The wind stung when it blew and left a red rash where it had tormented the skin. Water was definitely the golden resource today, and I’ve drank so much of it that I feel I now must be at least 95% water.
As the day rolled to a close and I sat down again to renovate, gulping the liquid gold from my trusty pint glass I noticed the sky.
I remember the saying as a kid - “The sky is red, the devil is dead and there’s no school tomorrow”.
I won’t argue with the first two, but the last, well unfortunately for me there’s always school tomorrow.
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July 13th, 2007 at 7:21 am
There’s also the saying,
“Red Sky at Night , Shepherd’s Delight;
Red Sky at Morning, Shepherd’s Warning”
Means that if it’s a red sky before sunset then it will be a nice day tomorrow and if it’s a red sky at sunrise then it’s going to rain…
Happy that it’s about 18 degrees here, though a bit warmer and we’d not get any work done and be out in the park with a frisbee and a
picnic . . .