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I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.
Today's episode is a conversation about going to a ball and getting kicked out of an office.
As always the transcript and pdf are available at easystoriesinenglish.com and you can find the link to that in the description.
Now as you can hear my voice is not doing so well.
This is, I think, a combination of factors.
One, it's very hot, so despite me drinking endless amounts of water, I am probably a bit dehydrated.
Two, it's hay fever season in London.
Hay fever is seasonal allergies.
allergies you get to pollen that trees and grass and plants release.
And hay fever is usually worst in cities because of the kind of plants that are put there in parks.
And London is particularly bad for hay fever and there seems to be a lot of pollen around at the moment.
I also smoked a little bit.
last night i helped my friend finish off his cigarettes i was really doing him a favor
because he's trying to quit smoking but also the main factor is the heat really it's just unrelentingly hot it's been around 30 degrees most days for the last week we're going to have a bit of a reprieve on tuesday after i record this uh a bit of a rest it's going to go down to like 23 degrees celsius but then it's just gonna go back up and i've talked about it before i think but 30 degrees in london is not the same as 30 degrees in many places for one we have no air conditioning or very little air conditioning certainly we don't have air conditioning in the vast majority of homes two Most of us live in Victorian houses that were built to keep heat in,
not to let it out.
And three, with all the concrete there is in London,
it just absorbs the heat and then slowly releases it throughout the day.