Is this Jam Hot?

Before I came out here everyone told me that the weather was going to be ridiculous - that I'd melt into a small puddle of pasty-freckled-gingerness in precisely no time.

I'm two months in now and it is hot, there's no denying it, 47 degrees is hot by anyone's standards (not strictly true, if your standards are in Fahrenheit then 47 degrees is pretty cold and if your standards are Kelvin then you're dead. As a rambling aside; why do we even say "degrees"? How does that add to our understanding? Saying 47 Celsius gives you useful information: saying 47 degrees tells you that it's an acute angle, which is not useful at all when you're talking about the weather - there's not even a degree symbol on the keyboard, which is odd because I'd've definitely used it more than "|". Why is that? And what does "|" even mean? If anyone can enlighten me on any of those points I would be grateful, thanks - right, back to what I was saying before, in case you've forgotten I was saying that 47C was hot) but it's not prohibitively hot. It's not oven-baked, skin-shrivelling, human-sultana, never-leave-the-shade, aircon-to-14-or-crumble-like-the-guy-from-Last-Crusade hot.

So in your face sun, if that is your real name - I reckon I can do another ten degrees. Bring it on, you big, gassy chump.

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Here's a curiosity for you; Blogger now tells me my web-traffic, not just for this blog but other previous blogs. Now there seems to have been a big rush on the old traveller cliche site in the last week or so. This would be weird enough seeing as I've not updated it in eighteen months, but most of the traffic seems to be coming from The Number One Weight Loss Site - why would this be? Answers on a postcard marked "Reading what you ate is good for anorexics".