Get in and level up!

So it’s a heatwave here in Blighty and it’s currently a 'Level Three', but just what does that exactly mean? You have the Richter scale to measure earthquakes, defcom to measure terror threats, but level 3 sounds like you’re making slow progress on Candy Crush. And what was level one; snow in winter? So to cut through the media jargon I visited the met office and looked it up. Level three is actually a heatwave level, where we are advised to take precautions such as wearing sunblock, drinking plenty of fluid and generally keeping an eye on one another (level four is a kind of stay indoors in a cool area and actually phoning your friends, family and elderly neighbours to see if they’re still alive). We’ve apparently never experienced level three in this country before; which is probably why no-one’s heard of a heatwave level in the first place. But life must go on. And if that involves more BBQs and reasons for staying up later then I say get in!