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a scorching day at Lord's I remember that Jim Phillips, the umpire in many Test matches, responded to a remark on the heat: "Hot? Why, in Australia they'd call this 'a break in the heatwave!'" . . . in the hot days of summer people take bungalows in the Blue Mountains and come by morning train to town. It is worth it. In the winter, by way of contrast, the holidaymakers can go still farther up-country, and obtain ski-ing.
