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    This heatwave

    I remember, we were, they bit as well, because there were so many of them they needed the salt. I remember there being advice not to wear red or yellow clothes because they were attracted to those colours. The beach huts used all have different coloured doors back then and I can remember walking...
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    This heatwave

    Insulation keeps heat out as well as in. You can, for example, keep hot coffee, or cold ice cream equally well in a thermos flask. My house here in Cyprus has single concrete walls. As a result, the house is boiling hot in summer and freezing cold in winter, the house would be cooler in summer...
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    This heatwave

    People keep dying in the UK because of the weather. It appreaches 30 and people die, and yet here in Cyprus it's always over 30 for at least two months and sometimes approaches 40 and people don't die of it, even poor people in the villages with no aircon. It drops to a few degrees below zero...

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