People are melting

It's not far off high noon at Tatton and people are melting! It's just as well I didn't spend that enormous sum on a trip to the Turks and Cacos Islands what with all this tropical sunshine in good old blighty.

There are numerous bronzed bodied men displaying their torsos as they toil in the heat to beat the deadlines for getting their gardens ready. I note that many of the ladies are sensible and are wearing sun hats at least! Someone is blasting out the Beach Boys which seems appropriate. I am about to melt myself and have good cause to think 'never has so much been owed by so many to so few gardeners' as everyone here sets too despite it now being over 30 - just so that Joe Public will be able to see all those lovely gardens on Wednesday.