Peter Rhodes on a thundery drama, chilled sheets and the coolest character on the seafront
CAPTION Too full for bed linen (IMAGE OF FRIDGE)
Beer, Devon. Life can be unfair. Here I am in Devon, plucking words from the great lexicon of summer similes, pretty much to my own agenda, while absorbing a chilled lager.
Meanwhile, in newsrooms across England, some poor devils have been given the poisoned chalice of summer journalism which goes with headlines such as 'How to Survive Boiling Britain'.
You know the sort of thing; a dozen tips for keeping your cool, including that old chestnut about putting your bedsheets in the fridge. Seriously, in the time that humankind has shared this planet with sheets and fridges, has anyone ever put the former in the latter to get a cool night’s slumber?
