Bromley have made 12 signings so far this summer and are expecting more, apparently.

You can see via satellite view on Google maps where the tidal forces in The Thames stop being sufficient to churn up the sediment - it's at Wandsworth. East of Wandsworth the river is brown and by the time you get to Putney it's, well, not brown.

6M - as a mudlark, tides are pretty critical for my hobby, and I regularly find myself explaining to unsuspecting tourists on the foreshore that there’s a 7 metre (23 feet) tidal range in central London, so they need to watch when it turns…. I’d always teach the kids at school that the amount of water on the planet (including the atmosphere) is always the same - what varies is whereabouts it is distributed, and what state it’s in (frozen, vapour, surface, underground, etc…). Although some places are under a hosepipe ban, that’s more through the ineptitude and profiteering of the monopolised water companies than anything else - by the end of October everyone will be moaning that it’s too wet…

We've still got loads of birds, RK. Cooler by the coast, of course. It's a particularly good year for swifts, although I can't imagine where they are getting water from up there.

Noel Edmonds buying lobsters from a tank in a restaruant on the Isle of Man. Releases them in the sea! Batship bonkers Britain. Now the owner of the Restaraunt Has taken them off the menu and the supplier has lost a customer. Well done Edmonds

Padd, I leave a tray out, the water does go but maybe that's largely evaporation? Only rarely seen birds drinking, maybe they're all expired

Glad I prompted a discussion about the song!

6m$, I use to live in Teddington which was called Tidewick in olden days, as that is the point where the Thames ceases to be tidal. The pub close to the lock is called "Tide End"

Talking of tides, I never realised until recently how much impact they have on the water level of The Thames. I naively assumed it was driven by the amount of rain. One of my walks entails The Thames Path between Kingston Bridge and Chiswick Bridge. There's often flooding but I was amazed it was happening now. One week, after the Richmond Weir Gates, you could almost walk across it because it's so dry. The next, at the same time of day (late afternoon) it is almost bursting it's banks. Apparently it's all to do with the tides along that stretch.

Noel Coward wrote the song whilst in the Far East. The lyrics almost entirely refer to parts of the world in the tropics. Trebor's point about lack of shade is likely what was being alluded to.

Yes Keefy. We've put a tray of water on what used to be the lawn. Birds seem pleased. The hedgehogs may come at night. (Find their poo sometimes).

Lucky only 6 % of the uk is built on including roads etc.

I still wish it could work tbh but I care about the future of AFC Wimbledon more than I care about the future of fan ownership.

I think there are a lot of people who wished fan ownership would work in the EFL but had an awakening a few years ago when despite the ground being full for most games, we were still losing between 1 and 2 million per year, before 'football fortune'.

I popped in and saw you were talking about weather :) It touches on my naval history research which I now do instead of going to football - affecting tides etc.

The lesser spotted Treebs!

Bees and Hedgehogs need water!

Mining bees? They're going to be very disappointed if they're mining for nectar.

I imagine there are quite a lot of LibDem/left of centre Labour/One Nation Tories among the fan base who also thing "community ownership" is a good thing (especially if they can hug a tree on their way to the ground)

Apparently leaving your grass longer during hot spells can cool the soil by as much as 1.5 degrees. Trouble is all my grass is dead - not mowing it cos it's all just lying flat anyway. Got my little mining bees coming and going which is good to see. No hosepipe ban here but doesn't really feel right to go using it anyway tbh.

It is so dry my concrete garage base has slightly moved making the door difficult to close.

Spit i'm an old and some would think right wing. Definately pro moving on and ditching fan ownership.

Yes everyone has turned their front gardens into concrete parking spaces and ripped up their back gardens for artificial grass. And then we wonder why its so much hotter than it used to be.

I'm sure it's the old extreme left wimbledon fans who wants to remain fans owned at all costs,.the rest have moved on with the times that League football is currently.

Also we've concreted over half our city open spaces, which will also delay the hottest part of the day in city environments.