THREE FAWNS TAKE THE PLUNGE. Yesterday was 103F in the shade of our BBQ shelter.A new record, by far, and a day we will all remember. I made occasional trips outside into the garden where everything was slowly cooking in the Saharan air blasts. Now and then I lay in the kids paddling pool which was bliss until I realised I was rapidly getting sunburnt too. Even in the shade I felt the abnormal radiation quicky searing my skin. But about 7pm I drove off to the lake a mile or so away, passing three-girls-with-towels. Not a single person on the footpaths. I walked along the bye-way feeling scorched by the sun but knowing that. though warmer. the lake water would be as always clean and fresh. And today it felt especially cool and clear. The slight breeze kept down the water insects that on calm summer evenings clutter the surface, and left just clear slightly-ruffled water with 20' of visibility right down to the bottom. The dippers were careering over the lake again, settling, th