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Mad dogs and Englishmen
Jun. 21st, 2023 05:35 pm... are not the only ones to go out in the midday sun, as the song would like to make you believe. Alas. For some reason, the biggest cemetery in our beautiful capital always schedules funerals to take place in the midday heat. At least in summer, when it really counts; because why would they bother in the dead of winter, right?
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I left the house at 9.15am and got home at 1.35pm or so. It was hot and oppressing and, as we say in Hungarian, I felt like a wrung-out lemon. Which is still better than what my poor (ex-)colleagues went through, who had to sit through completely useless conferences all morning and then had the big term-closing celebration in the afternoon - about half an hour ago, when it's the hottest. Perhaps they're still at it, the poor things. God, am I glad that I'm such an old hag and retired already!
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I left the house at 9.15am and got home at 1.35pm or so. It was hot and oppressing and, as we say in Hungarian, I felt like a wrung-out lemon. Which is still better than what my poor (ex-)colleagues went through, who had to sit through completely useless conferences all morning and then had the big term-closing celebration in the afternoon - about half an hour ago, when it's the hottest. Perhaps they're still at it, the poor things. God, am I glad that I'm such an old hag and retired already!
