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What A Scorcher! #flashfriday #sparklybadgers

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A Hiding Behind The Couch flash fiction, written for the Sparkly Badgers. Theme: extreme weather (British style ;)). *** A pink straw sunhat dropped onto the patio table. Iris glanced up from her magazine as Pauline passed between her and the sun—not that it mattered when she was under an umbrella. Pauline gingerly lowered herself onto the other recliner and lifted the hat, revealing a bottle of sun lotion—no, make that oil. “Bloomin’ hot, in’t it?” she said. She flipped the lid and upended the bottle, generously greasing her left arm, then her right. “Here we go. Back in 1976, we was frying eggs on’t car bonnets… ” “Well, we was!” “Aye. You told me last time we had a heat wave.” About ten years ago, if memory served. Pauline squinted with one eye shut, checking her arms were well coated before she squeezed dollops onto both thighs. “Nowt wrong with making the most of it.” “You could’ve just had a barbecue, love.” “I don’t think they was invented then, but that wer