david hockney

The mercury exploded last month – the hottest June on record. July’s poised to do the same. I can't work, maybe if I adapt a little. We turned on the airconditioning, we had no choice. I hate it to sit in the house with the doors and windows closed. The street is silent except for the buzzing of the air conditioners, empty and boring, everybody indoors. Fortunately there's a pool just around the corner. There are lots of pools throughout Toronto, and they are all free. This is a great city. No bags, shoes, food, or drinks allowed around the pool, and none for sale. Keeps everything clean. And lifeguards on all sides, grabbing their megaphones for the tiniest offences. Paradise. And they didn't even say anything about Otger swimming in the deep end! Otger was nervous, last year they called him out and made him graduate for a bracelet. He has graduated in every country he lived in (or didn't, namely Holland). This is the first Summer in which he remembers how to swim, our little athlete.