I imagine there are quite a lot of LibDem/left of centre Labour/One Nation Tories among the fan base who also thing "community ownership" is a good thing (especially if they can hug a tree on their way to the ground)

Apparently leaving your grass longer during hot spells can cool the soil by as much as 1.5 degrees. Trouble is all my grass is dead - not mowing it cos it's all just lying flat anyway. Got my little mining bees coming and going which is good to see. No hosepipe ban here but doesn't really feel right to go using it anyway tbh.

It is so dry my concrete garage base has slightly moved making the door difficult to close.

Spit i'm an old and some would think right wing. Definately pro moving on and ditching fan ownership.

Yes everyone has turned their front gardens into concrete parking spaces and ripped up their back gardens for artificial grass. And then we wonder why its so much hotter than it used to be.

I'm sure it's the old extreme left wimbledon fans who wants to remain fans owned at all costs,.the rest have moved on with the times that League football is currently.

Also we've concreted over half our city open spaces, which will also delay the hottest part of the day in city environments.

Midday would be hottest only if the Sun got turned off at that point. When the Sun is at its peak it has its maximum heating effect as the rays have less atmosphere to penetrate. But even though its effect lessens after that, it's adding to what's already accumulated. I think Dr Noel Coward was implicitly singing more about the lack of shade at that time of the day, rather than the heating effect, and about colonial environments closer to the equator where there will be even less shade comparative with a British environment. I do suspect that Dr Coward may have misattributed siesta to midday, too, whereas in reality those countries that have appropriated the custom tend to observe it in mid afternoon - I would recommend that Dr Coward submit his next paper for proper peer review.

I always assumed that on a totally sunny day the peak would be about 4pm, from noon till then the sun is heating things up, then it gets lower and temperatures plateau and then decline

Wasn't that Noel Coward?

Meadow - can you now publish the VCOC as you are no longer bound by it? Better still - OI publish VCOC - then TM will spill the beans on £400k-gate!

It does seem to have shifted, Trigs. The old music hall song "Mad dogs and Englishmen" suggests that midday used to be the hottest part of the day.

Also is it now just the normality that the hottest part of the day is no longer 12-3pm? It’s set to be 2 degrees hotter at 8pm than at midday.

It's surprisingly liberating resigning from the Dons Trust.

It’s a big week ahead - need multiple signings.

Meadow's earlier post indicates she has resigned as a volunteer.

It is Keefy, Meadow's point was that the VCOC could be interpreted to stop her being a volunteer if she moderates this place. Should whoever chairs the ESG think my experience a plus rather than a minus, I guess I'd face the same potential issue.

Thought Old Centrals Repository was independant from the tenticles of the club/trust.

Meant his next four year term is 2027-31, his big backers are Africa

Infantino's four year term runs 2027-31, so three more years, unless there is a way of getting rid. Wales first country to withdraw support but not sure what that translates to. Now his WC sale has fallen through, can he honestly stay on as a dead President walking?

But unacceptable is in the eye of the beholder. Unacceptable on an unofficial fans’ forum is pretty easy to understand.

Did you realise it or did someone tell you that?

I have signed the volunteers charter for quite a few years as a programme seller. I've recently realised that as a moderator of this place I could be in breach of the rules in allowing or not seeing unacceptable posts on here. As it happens, getting to Plough Lane in dreadful traffic has led to me resigning my volunteer role.

If DTB members want the VCOC published but can’t get it published then they have a duty to members (and volunteers) to explain who is blocking it.

I see in the High Court in poland on Friday the countries greatest ever confidence trickster sentenced the judge to five years hard labour