all i clearly remember of the 1976 drought:
sitting on the climbing frame eating vanilla ice cream with neat ribena poured over it (delicious) and listening to my mother and our neighbour talking about how very hot it was.
little white stickers with a plug hole in black and red lettering about not wasting water.
BBC news about people shaving out of cups.
it really was hot and the summer really did go on for ever, it was my first school holiday and perhaps because of that; the heat, the lolling around in the garden eating ice cream, it became the model of exactly what summer should be.
Posted by flambingo at August 6, 2003 11:49 AM