I swear if I see one more comment about how we are whiners and people abroad manage I will scream!
Having lived and worked abroad I can tell you houses are built to keep the heat out unlike here, infrastructure is different, more heat resistant materials are used and we are not going to rip up runways for possibly a few days heat. Locals live and adapt to the heat (siestas, late meals etc) schools are already out, most locals move inland over the peak months when the heat on the coast is extreme. It takes weeks for your body to acclimatize, I remember being by a pool working wearing a jumper feeling chilly whilst holiday makers were sunbathing in October
This isn’t like when we go on holiday and we have a cool pool to dip in, drinks to hand, no work, no school, no chores.
I’ve kept my child home today, kids fainted at their school yesterday, I’m sat in my home office all day working - it’s already 30.c in here and I feel sick so there’s no way I’m making them endure the same in a shoddy built 70’s era school to prove a point.
This isn’t a British summer, the weather we have coming up after this is what we are as a country are used to. This isn’t Spain, Greece or Italy. We’re a tiny island in the North Sea which should be wet and lush whether we like it or not. And Europe isn’t having a great time of it in the heat either with all the fires
I went to bed super early last night with a stinking headache feeling rotten. Just got to work and my office is still showing as 32 degrees it's hideous 
