August 2026 was very hot and dry, we had a series of heat waves and a prolonged drought that persisted until the last few days of the month. All the grass on the grass verges and in the parks were dead and dried up. The county resembled a dessert; there were a few wild fires in various places.
I got to visit two places I haven't been to before, I went to the Twist museum in London and later I went to Ruislip Lido: pronounced "Ryslip Lee Dow". It is a lake that has sand added to one side of it to make it look like a cove but it isn't near the coast. There are two restaurants there by the water side and play areas. It costs nothing to enter the premises or to go on the beach. There is a miniature railway there that can take you from the entrance to the beach, they charge a small fee but you can walk across on the paths yourself if you wish. If you're a tourist to London, I recommend you visit that place because it is lovely. If you want to go there, just get off a train at 'Ruislip Manor' Station served by both the 'Metropolitan' and 'Piccadilly' lines and take a H13 bus from bus stop D on the high street.
Towards the end of the month I learned that Dolly Parton passed away because she had terminal cancer, later I learnt that the British actor Tim curry also passed away. I don't know them personally so their death was mostly a reminder that we don't have long. Death is very unpredictable and it is almost impossible to know how many days of life I have left. A day or two after they died, there was a gigantic flash flood that swept through the centre of Nepal, I was later informed that it was caused by a large chunk of a glacier falling off the side of a mountain.
I don't know much, I can only make the most of every day until my time is up.
