It is said that the hottest day of a heat wave usually marks its last day, and today has proved a case in point. At 2 PM, it was 27.5 degrees in the shade in my garden, making it the hottest day of the year. But by 4 o'clock it had clouded over and the temperature had dropped by several degrees. The glass is still high, but the "march of the depressions" across the Atlantic is relentless; soon they will push our anticyclone aside and there will be rain.
Today a man comes in for blood tests to see if the DVLA will give him back his licence. He lost it because he refused to give a breath test, claiming that the police had no right to stop him. They did, apparently, because he was driving "erratically", though our man did not agree. In fact even now he believes the whole thing was a stitch-up by corrupt police officers, and that he doesn't have a drink problem. His previous blood results contradict him, however, and I force him to concede that the results are conclusive and, moreover, without any possible taint of bias.
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