smoky: 8 degrees! EIGHT DEGREES?! Degrees of what? You must be freezing!
Here its 45c in the shade - no-one measures what it is in the sun! At midnite its about 32c, same as the pool water....... And its getting hotter by the day!
By the time I`ve walked down the driveway to the gate to fetch the daily paper that gets thrown over the wall I feel like I been hiking thru the desert and the house has a mirage look about it on the return trip to the verandah.

I like your humour, Smoky
Or were you serious?
That's why I love Belgium and intend to stay here till I turn to ashes. Temperate weather, grey and rainy most of the time, but when the sun comes, like today, it's just lovely!
But hey, you have camels there, and we don't!
I'm off to work.. see ya!