M’colleague Meg, who is unfortunate enough to share an office with me, hit on the splendid idea of bringing in a thermometer to give us some facts and figures on just how sizzling our cubbyhole is. And now we’ve produced (that’s my dreadful scrawl) a list of all the hot places that are, in fact, cooler than here.

So: we’ve established, thanks to the temperature charts on the back of the paper, that our office is hotter than many world-famous hotspots. Mexico City, Athens, Bermuda, LA, Harare, Istanbul, Rio and Singapore? We call you all for what you are: cold spots. You ain’t got nothing on our little corner (top floor, left hand window, since you ask) of the building.

But maybe our suffering is as nothing compared to you. Think you can do better? Meg’s posted about it here, and there’s some discussion on her Flickr pic as well, and we’re offering “something suitably cool” – maybe a nice Vindaloo – as a prize for the best submission. Let’s be hearing about your Hottest Day In The Office.

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