I figure I will be happy for a good 5-6 years in northern England before I start to think 75 is a heat wave
I wish that were true! I've only been here 2.5 years...and I come from Nashville TN where heat was *born*.
And yet, already, anything over 70 feels stinkin' hot to me. Sad but true!
(I haven't yet found that the cold has the same effect. I don't find 40 in January unbearably cold where some people here do.)
And yes, it's friggin' hot here in London today! Nearing 100F they are saying and I'm feeling it for sure. It's just a whole differnet thing when there is *no* air conditioning around. My office doesn't have it, the shops don't have it, and the tube *definitely* doesn't have it.
So enjoy the American summer while you can, Michele.