one of our Saudi neighbours popped round with a bag of goodies to say think you for various offers of help, as they're off to Riyadh in a couple of days. Along with the usual dates ... we have millions of dates here, none of us eats them ... are a couple of nice little desk fans that we can plug into USB ports on our computers, so that was very thoughtful.
I said I supposed they didn't have any trouble with the mere 30 degrees here and she said, well, in Saudi they do have air conditioning and in London nobody seems to. Point taken.