Remember days like this....?

Pulled back the curtains to reveal a snow-covered landscape under leaden skies again? Crawled back under the duvet?

Here's an antidote to all the bad weather porn that's dominating blogs at present - Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's Ninety Four in the Shade, showing a sweltering lepidopterist resting in the shade, reading his field guide, too hot to chase any more butterflies.

You've gotta have a dream, haven't you?

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