The world has gone slightly mad

Tea: Somerset 35 for 2 (14 overs). Suppiah 28, De Bruyn 0.

Very hot. At least 40 degrees.

Compton, on 4, fended outside off-stump and edged Miller to Ambrose.

This championship cricket is so dull.

Miller and Woakes have given little away in the intense heat. At least 50 degrees.

One of the scribes here has just learned that his little boy's school-trip today was spoiled by an attack of sunburn because his initial layer proved inadequate, understandably because it's about 75 degrees in the westcountry today, but the teachers were "not allowed to reapply" the sun-cream.

The world has, of course, gone slightly mad.

Blimey it's hot. 80 degrees, I'd say.