From:	CENTRE::OPERIH       "Ivan" 27-APR-1987 12:35
To:	APPLJMC,OPERDH,OPERAG,OPERFA,OPERIH      
Subj:	Signs of Hot Weather.
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- Judges permit the removal of barristers (and their own) wigs.

- Workers at Cadburys Bournville factory are sent home because the chocolate
  won't set.

- People start whittering on about impending droughts. Standpipes appear in
  drought areas (usually Devon and Cornwall because n million people are 
  crammed down there having holidays(!!)). Crazy reservoir schemes like damming
  the Wash, the Baltic or the Med. are talked about (over a beer, of course!!).
 
- Portuguese men of war (jellyfish) are seen in the Channel and Weaver fish are
  the cause of sore feet to bathers on Cornish beaches.

- There are a record number of calls to the RNIB to rescue people drifting out
  to sea on air-beds or stuck up (or down) cliffs.

- Newspaper headlines - "PHEW - WHAT A SCORCHER!!!". Pictures of man asleep
  with newspaper over his face marooned by the incomimg tide. Also "HEAT-
  CRAZED VICAR EATS GERBIL!!!" and "CHEEKY BRIGADIER SPANKED PRIVATES!!!".

- In spite of the warm weather in Britain n million people are taking their
  holiday abroad this year and are jamming up Heathrow/Gatwick/Stansted/Dover/
  Harwich/Castle Donnington (where?) because the Customs Men are on strike/
  go-slow/on holiday(!).

- Motorists on the XXXXXXX by-pass are in a n mile tail-back (AA men are
  working overtime to deal with overheated engines).

- Drunk holiday makers are roaming the streets of Bognor Regis at midnight
  looking for accommodation, pursued by Old Bill.

- Supplies of ice-cream run out.

- Guards faint on parade.

- Reginald Dixon is got out of his cryogenic chamber to play the Blackpool
  Tower organ.

- Cambridge Evening News headline: "ONLY 187 PEOPLE ARRESTED FOR POSESSING DRUGS
  AT THE CAMBRIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL".

- Jam of hot air balloons over Woking.

- Police outnumber hippies at Stonehenge, and then later on, at Glastonbury.

- Nazis or the Mafia are found living in Surrey suburbia.

- Nudist Colonies packed out!!!!!!!!!!

_ (Sir) Clive Sinclair is seen driving about in a C5.

- Lord Lucan spotted in a resturant in Harrogate.