Hot Weather!

[Annabel]

How are we all coping in this hot weather?

Here in the London (and south east) we are set to have most of this week with temperatues over 30 degrees :wow:

I have to say that i havent been too bad this year so far , coping with it, but one thing I cannot stand is getting into a hot car! I have old fashioned air con, you know where you have to wind all the windows down and drive very fast to get the air con going :lol:

At the moment I am at work and I can see my car from the window...there isnt a shady place to park in our car park and I know the steering wheel is going to be boiling when i leave for home, because i forgot to bring a towel to drape over it :doh: By the time I get home i will be a sweaty heap :o :wacko:

[Eeyore]

I'm worried about my dogs, hope they're ok, checked they had full water bowls, water cold as possible, small windows at home are open, large ones on the latch, and I'll finish work early, get home and let them out asap, must be awful to wear a fur coat in this weather :rolleyes:

The building here shades my car (I'm lucky I have my own parking space, same spot every day) but the normal car park is in full sun. Have windows - and proper air con - and it's a good air con system too :P

Will have to give my baskets a good water when I get home, probably top up the pond (thankfully we don't have a hosepipe ban)

But - I'm having my shower room done out :blink: in this heat, I've had no shower room for 3 days - thankfully we have a bathroom and also an Eeyores mam who has invited us for daily showers at her house or it'd be smelly round here :P That guy better get the shower room finished tonight ;)

[Hulablush]

If anyone has a little fan at home or in the office and it seems they never blow out any cold air (they just move the hot air about), put a small bowl of ice in front it so the air will blow across the icy bowl and into your face (or body wherever the fan may be).

The air will be extremely cool then! Of course, you will have to replenish the ice but it saves buying new fans, etc. Also, you can put the fan on low and still get cool air and all your office papers aren't blown about either.

:D

I also drive an oven on wheels so the above won't help with that but will elsewhere. :D

[er 59]

Im melting :wacko: its so hot my grass has turned to straw and my plants are all shrivelling up (damn hosepipe ban )

the chavie dad across the road is parading around half naked not a pretty sight if i felt like eating it would put me right off my food :lol:

I really dont like the heat at all i just end up feeling 8-X so if anyone knows how to do a rain dance please feel free :errrm:

[tiomet]

It is weird, I was born and raised in Africa, where the heat would be 98F in the shade at 8am and I could play tennis at midday without breaking a sweat.

I even lived in Egypt for a while and it was even hotter there and I never needed a siesta.

This year, here, I am drooping like a wilting pansy. Fortunately we do not have a hosepipe ban in force up here and the reservoirs are still 95percent full. I find it odd we cannot redirect water where needed in UK ... we did in Africa. :unsure: Still, I get to water my pot plants each evening and if the forecast is right, get to enjoy rain on Thursday.

I have big fan on me and a small fan blasting the computer... it is really suffering! My CPU is running at 60 and forget heavy graphics, it crashes. It is no cooler outside at the moment.

Must admit it makes me sleepy.

Good thing is I love summer food, loads of salads.

Bad thing is it is too darn hot to use my lateral thigh trainer so the exercise regime is on hold.

Good thing is that I drink tons of water.

Bad thing is my poor little stray cat is cooped up inside when he should be able to find the best coolest spot in the garden.

Good thing is 20 minutes in the sun (wearing sunguard factor 40) is good E for the complexion.

Bad thing is if you don't use sunguard you are inviting disaster.

Good thing is it is genuinely too hot until late afternoon for the kids to kick ball at our fence.

Bad thing is after 5pm is it cool enough for the kids to kick ball at our fence.

On balance I prefer cooler weather.

[sp54]

:( Like er & Annabel I am another south east/London gal.

I hate this heat, I really do :( . It is in the 90s here and so humid, and getting hotter in the next couple of days :(

I would love to be on the coast right now and envy you folk that are

We have the hosepipe ban, using the watering can for our veg's, but our lawn is brown and so are the flower beds :cry: http://bestsmileys.com/sun/1.gif

Definitely salads all week I think :unsure: and I am with er with the rain dance request

This is how I feel - http://bestsmileys.com/undersun/3.gif

[Copperfox]

Way too hot for me being pregnant aswell i finding it very hard going with the extra weight :o My son really grumpy cause he too hot :blink: my hubby just walked in from work complaining it too hot.
My poor dogs and hens are wilting roll on a nice thunderstorm :D Copperfox

[tact77]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sp54 @ 17th July 2006 - 4:14 PM) 180319</div> This is how I feel - http://bestsmileys.com/undersun/3.gif [/b]



Me too. I went to a picnic at Little Miss T's nursery today and all the space in the shade had been taken. Sat for 2 hours in the sun.

[tortoise]

Hi

Boiling here in sunny Kent.

But we have air conditioning at home, so a nice comfy 20 degrees in the house. :P

Went out in the car this morning though - no air con - and ended up with a lovely sweaty back and cleavage. Not very attractive. :D

[tact77]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tortoise @ 17th July 2006 - 5:34 PM) 180329</div>
But we have air conditioning at home, so a nice comfy 20 degrees in the house. :P [/b]



Quick everyone to t's house :hihi:

[phantos02]

In this hot weather it is regularly 34 degrees in our office :(

[Miss Understood]

I live on the south coast and am currently working 60 miles inland which takes a hour and a half to drive. It was lovely and cool at 7am this morning but horrible and hot and 33 degrees in the car park when I left the office. I was parked in the shade of the tree but the steering wheel was still to hot to handle properly.

I do have aircon in the car but I find performance drops and petrol consumption zooms up so I try not to put it on until I have to. A couple of quick bursts at traffic lights etc. I did try to remove the sun roof glass (it's allegedly removable!) but the glass was too hot to take out - nearly burnt my fingers!

Melted all the way home (even with the quick bursts of air con) to find it is only (!) 26.8 degrees C here which is much more managable - but only just!

[Idgy]

Loving it - pity we all have NFH!

[tortoise]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tact77 @ 17th July 2006 - 5:37 PM) 180332</div>
Quick everyone to t's house :hihi:
[/b]


I'll put the wine in the chiller! :D

Yes Dibuzz I know you love me. Come on over then if you must!! :hihi:

[coppernob]

I had to go out today,the temperture in the taxi,with all the windows open and moving,was 94!! I've got solar dermitis,comes with being a coppernob I think :bigeyes: so not really enjoying this weather,I just break out in hives and itch like crazy!! Even though it was so hot today,I found it more bearable then the humid weather we had the other week.My daughters off to a certain theme park tomorrow with her school ,as Mu mentioned,it's as you get inland the heat gets worse so I hope it's not too bad.CN

[Omega]

In the Fens it is also very hot; we have our lovely nice ex neighbours from Kent with us at the moment and we are enjoying going out and about in the good weather :thumbs:

We have just seen that Weds could reach at least 37 degrees - wow that's hot B)

The gardens could do with some rain tho, the trees are looking so forlorn these past few days :sad: Yesterday I saw a tree that looked as tho it has given up - the branches were hanging low and the leaves had drooped; it was an old tree but looked in desperate need of some water! Luckily up here we do not have a hosepipe ban so I am able to water them regularly and now have many plants in full bloom and some green grass :thumbs:

[Valsheen]

Another one here in humid London - got the fan blowing on my back while sitting here at the computer - practically in my birthday suit :D It is sooooooh hot. I keep putting off going to bed cos I just t*ss and turn all night. I have the fan on but the whirring noise keeps me awake. :(

I've just come back from Italy (north) and although it was hot, there was no humidity - always a nice sea breeze - I can live with that - I also loved all those Gelati bars and, of course, the lovely Italian men (my man was with me so I could only look and admire :D )


Ah well, I suppose I'd better make my way to bed and at least try to get some sleep. Started a new job today and half way through the afternoon the Senior Partner came into the office carrying glasses of lovely ice cold Pimms topped with loads of fruit - said he thought we might appreciate a nice cool drink -not bad huh??? Think I might like this job. :D

[Miss Understood]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Valsheen @ 18th July 2006 - 12:04 AM) 180408</div>
Started a new job today and half way through the afternoon the Senior Partner came into the office carrying glasses of lovely ice cold Pimms topped with loads of fruit - said he thought we might appreciate a nice cool drink -not bad huh??? Think I might like this job. :D
[/b]


Good luck in the new job. It sounds fabulous if Pmms is being dispensed for free!

[tact77]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tortoise @ 17th July 2006 - 9:30 PM) 180380</div>


I'll put the wine in the chiller! :D

Yes Dibuzz I know you love me. Come on over then if you must!! :hihi: [/b]



T, I have just looked at the weather forecast for my area. 33 today and 36 tomorrow. :bigeyes:



What time shall I arrive? :lol:

[Eeyore]

It was so hot last night, far too hot and sticky, I barely slept :(

And our shower room still isn't finished, will be done today - thankfully in time for the hottest day tomorrow ;)

[Toots]

I don't mind it when I am at home.... I would hate to be sat in the office like this.... as the air con is rubbish!

I must admit though I do prefer Winter... I am a winter lass at heart... snow, ice, rain! bring it on!

[Annabel]

Aaaahhh, I remember you telling us about your air con Tortoise last year, and we were all green with envy then...hehehehehe and how you got very upset when it broke down..... :lol: :lol:

[mazza]

Well up here (way North of Watford) it is just lovely - really warm enough to go into the sea - makes a change, we usually go on the beach in wellies, woollies and waterproofs! :lol:

No hoespipe bans here so the kids are out having a mega water pistol shoot out...keeps em occupied! :rolleyes: .

[er 59]

this weather is making me grumpy i wish it would go away :badmood:

everyone in my house is avoiding me today one look at my angst mush and they all head for the hills :lol:

yi win it cant be as hot where you are there is no way i could sunbathe i swear you could fry an egg on my garden path but if you are sitting out in it plenty of suncream and loads of water to drink they say tommorow is going to be even hotter :cry:

[sp54]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(er 59 @ 18th July 2006 - 12:37 PM) 180472</div>
this weather is making me grumpy i wish it would go away :badmood:
[/b]

Me too, er, big time :angry: :rant:

If I venture outside at all - to hang washing out - I can't even breathe :(

It's horrid and tomorrow will be worse :cry:

Am sitting in front of a fan searching for a nice holiday cottage by the sea - the cool, refreshing, gorgeous sea :thumbs: http://bestsmileys.com/water/7.gif

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Yi Win @ 18th July 2006 - 1:03 PM) 180480</div>


I really do not knowhow yo uguys can live in such humidity -
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We don't :(


I think it is over 30 down here today as well :sad:

[sp54]

Just watched the lunchtime news. The temp in London is 35 :cry: http://bestsmileys.com/sun/3.gif

[er 59]

but I've survived Australia at 42 & where if it dropped to 30 you'd put on trousers and 20 was cold and you put on a fleece!!!!![/b]




:lol: yi win



hot and sticky is not the word for it the humidity is beyond bearable im considering moving up north for the summer months this hosepipe ban doesnt help either

australia at 42 degrees that just made me nearly swoon and keel over im a wimp when it comes to heat :blush:

[tortoise]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Annabel @ 18th July 2006 - 9:25 AM) 180435</div>
Aaaahhh, I remember you telling us about your air con Tortoise last year, and we were all green with envy then...hehehehehe and how you got very upset when it broke down..... :lol: :lol:
[/b]


:P Claimed for it on the home insurance though and now have proper fitted air con - so ner ner :P

Seriously it is the best money we have ever spent. If you can just get a portable one it is so worth it.

Tact - You are very welcome if you don't mind the endless dust and banging. Anytime after 5pm will be ok! :D



Mind you air con a waste of time at the moment as the lovely adorable workmen keep leaving the doors and windows open. I keep telling them if you close the doors you will be cooler as the air con will kick in, but I think they can't get their heads around it. :bigeyes: B)

[sp54]

:( http://bestsmileys.com/drinking/15.gif

[Annabel]

poor sp, you are really struggling! try hanging a wet tea towel in front of a fan and put your feet in a bucket of cold water with ice cubes in...blisss.... :rolleyes:

ooh you are so right Yi Win, the reason why we find the heat so hard going is we try to keep up our level of activity as if it were cold weather, and we feel bad if we cant keep up...

now if we lived in greece right now we would be having our siesta, instead of slaving away over a hot typewriter in a stifling office :blowup:

[sp54]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Annabel @ 18th July 2006 - 2:18 PM) 180511</div>
poor sp, you are really struggling! try hanging a wet tea towel in front of a fan and put your feet in a bucket of cold water with ice cubes in...blisss.... :rolleyes:
[/b]

:thumbs: The wet tea towel in front of the fan works :thumbs:

Haven't got any ice cubes. :(

Got one foot on a bag of oven chips though and the other on a pot of frozen chicken livers, but it's not doing much :unsure:

http://bestsmileys.com/drinking/13.gif

Got to go out in this at 3 :cry: :(

[Eeyore]

Roll on 3pm for me, I'm going home, only air conditioning in this office is a few open windows and a small fan - in an office of 20 ;)

A kind colleague has gone for the days ice creams and lollies though :P Lovely

[sp54]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dibuzz @ 18th July 2006 - 2:37 PM) 180513</div>
Oh dear sp, remind me not to come to yours for tea
[/b]

:lol: :hihi: :hihi:

[Annabel]

yi win, whats your address? :lol: :lol:

[sp54]

Yi Win, I can bring my oven chips and chicken livers :bigeyes: :lol: :hihi: :hihi:

[Annabel]

aaaarrrggghhhh@ yi win :P :P :P :lol: :lol:

[sp54]

Just to further emphasise the heat 'dahn sarf' when I went to collect the children I look after from the local infants school and junior school, the infants came out with a letter saying that since the temp here is expected to hit 36 tomorrow the children & parents have the option of staying at home .

Then I went to the junior school and a poor teacher passed out in the playground because of the heat :bigeyes:

Neither have been heard of before :bigeyes: :o

[mazza]

:o good grief you lot!

It is just right where I am - I have been dipping my tootsies in the kids water tray whilst reclining on my chair in the garden...:lush: .

:lol:

(yes, i will clean it out afterwards!)

Can't be bothered to cook this eve though....

[Omega]

Just checked thermometer in shade in garden 34 degrees http://bestsmileys.com/hot/3.gif at least we have a breeze :thumbs: albeit a warm one B)

Been watching the sparrows having a bath in the fountain and bird bath; bless 'em keep having to top the bird bath up!

Dread to think what tomorrow will bring..........

[phantos02]

Ok it got to 34.5c in the office today :blink: but I bet we beat it tomorrow!!



We have been told that we can dress casual tomorrow in an effort to keep cool. Bear in mind that the men have only just been told in the last few days that they can take their ties off, poor loves :( .

[tact77]

So from what i can gather...



we are all going to Yi wins for dinner and t's house to sleep :hihi:



I would hate to be stuck in an office in this heat, is there not a law where if its too hot you can go home.

[mazza]

Dibuzz that is just ridiculous, oooohhhh how stupid. :frown:

As far as I know there is only a law when the temp gets too cold, not too hot - it's rubbish isn't it?

[smoo22]

Did you see on TV that UNISON are telling employers not to force people to stick to a dress code - they could end up in trouble if employees end up ill. Same should apply to schools - in fact, I would take a child out of school if they are going to insist on wearing blazers - how stupid can you get! :banghead:

You're right mazza - there's not a legal maximum temperature for working, just a minimum. But I bet if 90% of the population phoned in sick from heat exhaustion caused at work, the H&S folk would soon change that! Anyone want to name a day? :D

I have been goldpanning all day and the back of my neck is burnt senseless, despite sun lotion - I never even noticed as I kept cooling it with the water, but I'm suffering now :ill: And it's not as hot here as further south - feel SO sorry for all you guys down there!

[Miss Understood]

The car thermometer was registered 35.3 when I left the office today - and that's in the shade! Actually had to hang the expense of the extra petrol and have the aircon on in the car most of the way home.

I would pop to yours for tea Yi Win but given I'm almost as dahn sarf as you can get and you're oop north somewhere, I probably would miss it!

I whimped out on shopping for tea today. Yesterday, we had jacket spuds, salad and tuna. Where I work we have a free 'concierge' service in the form of a lovely couple of ladies who'll go out and do small errands for you like taking and collected dry cleaning, paying stuff into the bank, picking up small amounts of shopping from supermarket, going to the post office etc. They're marvellous. I decided the quickest thing to cook (thereby minimising the extra heat from the stove tonight) was a stir fry. So, they picked me up a pack of noodles and stir fry vegetables. It's a great service - I shall have to think what I can send them out for tomorrow which is quick to cook

[Sparrow]

My dad phoned me tonight - the thermometer on his back garden was reading 104f this afternoon and on the local news it says it will be even hotter tomorrow :bigeyes: but thunderstorms are on the way by friday! :thumbs: I think i will stand outside when it rains ;)

Sparrow :rolleyes:

[Annabel]

me too sparrow - do you know it is hotter here than in greece? :yes: :yes:

who needs foreign holidays eh? :D

[Sparrow]

The other primary school in our village has cancelled its sports day tomorrow because of the heat :sport: And one or two parents said they have heard that the secondry school was considering closing tomorrow too because of this heat.

Today at the kids school it was the 40th birthday party with loads of activities planned outside but it was cut short because of the lack of shade for the kids - all they got to watch was 40 balloons let out from a mini on the field because the teachers were worried about keeping them outside too long esp the little ones :(

And my friend opposite has got a huge crack across her kitchen window on the back because of the heat. And where i park our car the sun beats down all day on the drivers door well the door handle on the drivers door -the metal has warped and i cant open the door from the outside im sure its cos of the intense heat from the sun
Sparrow

[coppernob]

Middle daughter who went on coach trip with school to theme park, said the heat made her feel ill and the queues were unreal,one ride got stuck and another was closed as it had a small fire due to the heat!! OH works in a refridgerated warehouse so he was OK, I just wilted and itched!! Yi Win, my cousin came over from Aus back in that awful wet weather we had in May and she couldn't believe how green everything was here,she's on the gold coast where they are shipping in water!! I'm praying for the rain! My two's senior school also is still expecting them to wear full uniform, they have to arive at school in their tie but once they've been seen to be wearing it,can then remove it, mad,eh?

[Annabel]

my daughter had her sports day yesterday, us parents were instructed to send them into school with sun lotion to put on, hat and baggy t shirts, we were warned if we wanted to come and watch the sports there was no shade and that they would not be able to put chairs out for us in case they sank into the tarmac! :blink:

the kids did all the races, and were given bottled water during the day, my daughter said she loved it! :) even though she was as sweaty as anything when she got home and covered in dust :bigeyes:

you can enjoy this hot weather if you take proper precautions - and i think any school that insists on making the kids wear full uniform, is being ridiculous, i would be making a fuss about it!!! what are they trying to prove at the end of the day? daft!

well.we are up against it today folks, i just got into work, byt the time i arrived the car thermometer was reading 28 deg! i am convinced it will go above 40 deg today...so i am going to be moving at a snails pace today... :lol:

[Eeyore]

It is so warm already - and guess what, my shower room still isn't finished :rolleyes: The guy worked until 10.45pm last night without a break, and he still has the grouting to do and the shower to install

[Annabel]

hmmmm hmmmm hmmmm, builders ;) ;)

[riky]

My mom slept in the sun and got burnt!!!! :blink:

[Milano]

I spent all day yesterday on the patio in my bikini, i took a digital timer out with me set for 15 mins and everytime it went off turned over. Every hour i came in, drank a big glass of water from the fridge, reapplied my suncream, only factor 12, then went back out again. Didn't burn at all but have burned in the past when using factor 30 so think the key is to keep applying it and really put it on thick, don't rub it in. Whenever i felt i couldn't stand it anymore i got in the kids pool, its one of those 10ft things and i've discovered it's actually deep enough to swim in, albeit round and round lol, bliss.

i left the thermometer on the patio table and if fell over, when i picked it up it read 50 degrees!!!!! until i stood it back up then it dropped to 38!!

Did lose 1 of my rabbits though, poor thing just couldn't cope with the heat, the shed was like an oven, all the others seem ok so far though although its meant to be hotter still today so will have to keep a close eye on them.

[Annabel]

Did lose 1 of my rabbits though, poor thing just couldn't cope with the heat[/b]

ohmigod - the poor thing! how awful...you have me worried about my guinea pig now! was your rabbit quite elderly?

[mazza]

:( Aw the poor little thing :cry: .

[Sparrow]

Sorry to hear about your bunny Milano.
We have been told this morning by the head that we can fetch our children at 1pm if we want to - it will go down as an authorised absence - so im going to. My youngests classroom isnt too bad as its at the back of the building so its stays quite shadey but elder daughters classroom is like an oven when its cool so its unbearable in this weather - and i cant fetch one daughter and not the other!! :D

It was amazing how many parents were moaning that they could get their kids early :o I heard one say ive made plans this afternoon and im not changing them! :bigeyes:


Sparrow B)

[Eeyore]

That's so sad about your bunny Milano, was it heatsroke or did it get caught by flystrike? :( Poor thing, I've made sure all the dogs have plenty of water and have windows open or on the latch, on an afternoon it's too hot to even walk them, they just pant and want to sit down

The fish in the pond have the best place at the minute :P

Is anyone else having car alarm trouble? Mine wouldn't switch off yesterday and in the car park here a few have gone off this last few days

[StoneHenge]

Gosh, we really are all suffering eh? I must admit, I tend to just drink loads of water, run my wrists under the cold water for a few minutes and wear light cotton clothes, and loads of sun cream (being fair skinned and haired I weatr minimum of 30 and still get caught).

It's my little one I feel sorry for! He can't cope at all, really grumpy all day, then restless at night. I can't open his window until about 11 because of the stupid moped riders who wake him up and that's only if the NFh are quiet enough as well. He wakes up every night sweating despite only having a vest on and no covers, fan etc. He really doesn't do well!

We will all be unhappy when it gets cold though!

So can I come for tea as well Yi Win, and crash over at yours T? I am a very tidy and quiet house guest!! :thumbs:

[Annabel]

O Mein Gott! Ach du Schreck!

(its at times like this that only a bit of german will do)

we were doing ok at work until we starting having several small rows which has deteriorated in certain people flouncing out of the office in a huff (ok it was me) and others getting migraines and saying they just had to go home as they couldnt cope with the heat anymore.... :bigeyes: :sad:

i flounced back in just now as i have a client to see soon, so i had no option but to get a grip...i didnt go far, just into the local shopping precinct where it is airconditioned. :lol: :lol:

man,. what a day! we have all made up now thank goodness :thumbs: and we were just checking out the weather forecast, and got into fits of laughter when we realised we were getting very pleased about the temperature falling to 28 deg tomorrow (positively chilly)- we have gone stark staring bonkers today!!! :lol: :blink: :bigeyes:

p.s. what is flystrike, eeyore? myimagination is running riot! can guinea's get it...fret fret

[Eeyore]

Flystrike is horrible, the flies lay their eggs on an animal (usually it affects rabbits, but guinea pigs can get it) and then the eggs hatch, the maggots eat the animal, I lost a bunny this way, he'd been fine, we cleaned him out every day but the flies had laid eggs inside, it was very sad :cry:

Here's a website Flystrike (http://www.houserabbit.co.uk/rwf/articles/Flystrike.htm)

Keep checking your animals, sounds awful but it can save their life

It is so hot here, and no sign of an ice cream today :(

Annabel, I'm glad you've made up at work, don't tempers fray more in the heat eh?

[Milano]

Flystrike is an awful death when fly's lay there ages on a rabbits (or other animals) messy bums if they haven't cleaned themselves properly or had a touch of the runs. The eggs hatch and the maggots eat into the rabbits flesh, extremely painful and rabbit dies from shock fairly rapidly. Very very common in this type of heat as flies are in abundance and rabbits are too hot to bother cleaning themselves as well as normal.

It was just the heat with my rabbit though, not an old rabbit only 2 but she is the 1st adult i've lost its usually the babies that succumb. My rabbits all have bottles of frozen water in there hutches now which they seem to appreciate, and i've hosed the roof down to try and reduce the temp inside. Fingers crossed i don't loose anymore.

[sp54]

It's officially the hottest July day ever :(

Temperature at Gatwick was 36.3 :cry:

Cold drink anyone? http://bestsmileys.com/drinks/6.gif

Oh, miss mellie, now you have depressed me :P :badmood:

[Annabel]

i wonder if they have a dodgy thermometer, as my car one said 42 deg when i left work, and as i was driving it dropped to 37 deg...

i think they dont like to tell us the truth in case we panic. :lol:

[Miss Understood]

It was so hot and still here on the south coast last night that I went to bed then got up again and had a couple of hours kip on the sun lounger in the garden :bigeyes: woke up not long after midnight with a stiff back and decided I'd better get back to my bed!

Was really grumpy and tetchy at work today and had to keep apologising. I just don't do Heat. Nor do I do Tired and when heat and tired are involved I'm one grumpy old lady!

The county where I'm working had it's hottest day ever today according to records. Air con on in the car most of the way back home. About 20 miles from home, the thermo in the car said 31.5 but, as I got nearer and nearer home, the temp started dropping and 20 minutes later, I'm in temps of about 21.5 - a 10 degree drop in half an hour! It's because a blessed sea breeze has picked up and there are clouds threatening but I don't care! I'm just hoping it stays this way so I can sleep better tonight.

Milano, sorry to read about your bunny....

[Miss Understood]

And guess what - I've just been out watering the garden (no hosepipe ban here) and yes, we have thunder and

RAIN :thumbs:

Cool Blessed RAIN :band:

I've just stood out in it for five minutes just revelling..........

:D

[sp54]

:angry: :rant: Don't even talk to me about being hot and grumpy :angry: :rant: :badmood:

I 'don't do' hot :rant: :angry:

Goodness knows what our electric bill will be with all the fans on :unsure: :sad: :rolleyes:

[Eeyore]

We've a cooling easterly breeze here - it's lovely :D

[Milano]

We have a really good breeze picking up now and temp on the patio is at a lovely 25 degrees. All rabbits seem alot happier now as well, thanks for your comments, looks like the others will be ok.

I've been hearing the odd distant rumble all evening and the clouds are rolling in so maybe we are going to get the promised rain soon. I do love the weather when its hot though, i'd happily hibernate if i could get away with it, i hate winter, so depressing. Its just the way it effects the animals that worries me, oh and hubby isn't too happy with it when he has to work in it either.

[Neighboured]

Spoke with a friend on the M40 at 5.50pm It was 39.8 outside the car.

We had nearly 40 in the ofifices upstairs and about 35/36 downstairs where I work.

And I have a three day trade show in a bl**dy oven of a building Thursday to Saturday. :badmood:

[phantos02]

I sypathise neighbourd, it was 37 in my office today (broke the record, not that we're happy about it).

Management have finally approved the budget for our office refurbishment which means we should get aircon but.... not til next year!!! :(

[StoneHenge]

Isn't it just dreamy today! I actually got goosebumps!

No rain here yet. I was expecting some spectacular rain and thunder and all I got was a five minute spit spat shower instead!

Heh ho!

[Annabel]

last night was the worst night sleep i have had in a long time, i felt like a boiled chicken at one point as the bedroom fan had switched itself off for some reason, then i had a headache and needed to get up to take paracetamol...pah!

but when i finally got up this morning we had a cooling breeze, the temperature was 24 deg but it felt nice! :D

its so tiring though :sad:

i sympathise with everyone who has no aircon in their offices, as we dont either and after a while it is just inhuman - and noone can work properly in conditions like that anyway ;)

[Eeyores mam]

It`s damp and cooler up here in the north and it was quite cool last night but as I was walking the dogs in the cool this morning 2 people waiting for the bus were talking about the weather and one said to the other " well that`s the summer over then" . Isn`t that people all over :)

[Eeyore]

LOL, yes we all complain about the heat and the sun, then the rain and cool comes and we say "there's been no summer" :P

It is lovely here today, cloudy and cool, where's the sun?? :lol:

[change for the best]

Wasn't the change in temperature incredible yesterday?

We came out of Tesco at around 4:30 and drove home. By the time we got home the outside temp had dropped by 10 degrees C and a cooling wind had sprung up.

Last nights sleep was the best I've managed in ages.

[Annabel]

at work it was almost as bad as yesterday in there.

not as bad now i have got home. this is whacking me out, when my boss gets back from his holiday i am going to beg him to put air con in, we are all going to get heat exhaustion working in 38 deg heat every day :angry:

if he can afford to pay us a 5% bonus (very nice thank you) he can afford to invest in aircon.

[sp54]

:( It was supposed to be cooler today, but it isn't at all :angry:

I am so irritable too because of the heat and lack of sleep :P :rant:


On the news a couple of days ago they said the National Grid may be unable to cope [presumably because of the use of air con, fans etc.] and warned there may be power cuts. This afternoon our entire local shopping centre was cut off - and still is :blink:

In fact, our light is flickering at the mo. :blink: Just as well it's salad for dinner :lol: [again]

[er 59]

annabel

im glad you said it is almost as bad as yesterday because i dont think it is any cooler here either

my thermometer in the kitchen is saying 86 degrees and i have to cook soon cant stand another salad it is so sticky and humid its starting to make me feel very icky :cry:

clear blue skies not a raincloud in sight and the warm breeze we did have has stopped :badmood:

[Bonkers Mad!!!]

it's no cooler here either :no:

i'm going to badger my boss for a fan at least, we got air con in the main part of the the building but not in the office :blink:

[Eeyores mam]

It`s a pleasant evening up here in the north but the barometer is dropping to rain so we`ll see. I still had to water my garden and next doors even though it did rain a bit during the night.

[Milano]

it looked like we had some rain overnight but by morning last nights breeze had gone and its been really sticky all day, its 30 degrees in the living room and upstairs is worse so think i may just sleep in the garden tonight lol.

I have a fan in the bedroom and i can't sleep without it on full aimed straight at me but hubby can't sleep with it on as the noise bothers him so as he has to get up for work at 5am i luck out....

[Annabel]

milano get your hubby to wear ear plugs, i like the fan on me at night but dont like the noise of it - thats what i do!

[mazza]

Blimey it was totally baltic here today - jumpers and trousers all round!!
:bigeyes:

[Miss Understood]

Got home this evening and although the car thermo was low (i.e only 26 degrees!) the house was like a furnace. Went and turned my computer on and within a short time it shut itself off because it was too hot!

I've had to wait until the last half hour to be able to turn it back on again and get more than five minutes life out of it.
Hey ho, us Brits are never satisfied unless we're moaning about the weather are we?

[sassieb]

way too hot here

[sp54]

I CAN'T FACE ANOTHER HOT DAY TODAY

I swear I will slap someone today it makes me so irritable :angry: :rant: :lol: :hihi:

[StoneHenge]

Oh SP! I know how you feel. I am strangely OK in the office as we have these noisy mobile air cons that chug all day, but at least they are taking the edge off the temperature, which is currently reading 25 in the office, so nice!

At home though! Phew. The living room is nice as its open with the dining room so plenty of air flow and stays pretty cool, but the bedrooms are like little sauna's dotted round the house. I go in there, come out sweating. Yukky!

Don't you hate it when you jump in the shower, come out, get hot and sweaty and wonder why you bothered because you feel just as hot and sticky as when you went in, only you smell of shower gel!

[sp54]

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Ooooh, I swear that will be me by lunch time :lol: :hihi:

It's not just me, as I have spoken to 2 friends today, separately, and the first thing they both said was 'I can't bear another day of this heat'

I am Mrs Hot & Bothered today - thank goodness you can't all see me :lol: :hihi: :hihi: :blush: :P

[er 59]

hi sp

you are not alone i hate this heat with a passion its too hot to sleep or eat and with a hosepipe ban in place you cant even fill up a padling pool :angry:

im fed up with feeling sticky as soon as you are out of the shower you get a heat rush and you are back to normal its also making me very tetchy in fact no one in my house even bothered to talk this morning we just grunted at each other

roll on the weekend im heading for epping forest to sit under all of those lovely cool trees i might even pitch up a tent :)

[mazza]

Aw you poor lot, I hope you get some respite soon.

It's cloudy but really hot here too - very peculiar :blink: .

[Annabel]

see you over the forest er, its the best place to be, blissfully cool in there :D :D

either that or just head for an aircond shopping mall and dont come back till they shut!

it is supposed to be raining tomorrow, but still nearly 30 deg that is going to be nasty :badmood: :badmood:

[sp54]

I loitered in the chilled section in Asda this morning :lol: :thumbs:

It was bliss in there. I had to leave as the staff probably thought I was stalking them or something :lol: :blush: I didn't buy anything in that section, just loitered, and pretended to take an overly enthusuastic interest in the ingredients of every single product.

So, if you can't get to a cool forest tomorrow, head to my Asda's chilled section :D and I will see you there :thumbs:

[sp54]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Yi Win @ 21st July 2006 - 11:21 AM) 181614</div>


I feel really odd :bigeyes:

Is anyone else struggling to breathe? Feeling giddy?
[/b]

Yes, Yi, I have felt unwell all week, and when I set foot outside I am finding it hard to breathe too. I am okay indoors with the fan on, but outside it is awful :cry:

[Annabel]

you are probably doing too much, slow down and make sure you drink plenty of water, you could be dehydrated also have a packet of salty crisps to replenish your salts :D

[StoneHenge]

Sounds like a good idea Yi Win!

You would be amazed how thie weather can get to you eh? I often slightly tight chested if out in the heat for a long period, but I do get hayfever as well which doesn;t help.

Lots of water and lounging I think!

[Sparrow]

Hope you feeling a bit better Yi Win!
Annabels advice about the salt is good - i have felt dreadful for a few days with this intense heat even with staying out of the sun and drinking plenty of water etc. One night I went to bed feeling yuck and woke up about 2am with an awful headache every step i took my head throbbed even more as i went downstairs for some paracetamol - when i mentioned it to my mum the next day she said if i felt like that again to have a glass of water with a few grains of salt in and within an hour i should feel a bit better :rolleyes: I thought she was having me on but i tried it and it does work - i did feel a lot better! :D

Hope you ok

Sparrow x :thumbs:

[sp54]

It helps maintain the correct fluid balance in the body. :D

Too much is not good either as it can cause water retention


Used to be a nurse B) :P :lol:

[StoneHenge]

Spot on SP!

I get very bad cramp in my legs if I get low on salt!

Good excuse to eat salty crisps anyway Yi Win!

I think your dogs will probably enjoy the lazy day in this heat anyway (or are they hyper like mine used to be?)!

[StoneHenge]

Oh no Yi Win, not me, SP used to be the nurse, and I bet she's full of useful tips like the one about the salt. Little gem that she is!

I am merely a first aider and don't pretend to know anymore than that!

[sp54]

LOL @ YI Win :lol:

Would you like to make an appointment with me now, Yi :lol:

[StoneHenge]

LOL SP!

:hihi: :hihi:

That's OK Yi Win! The heat is sending me doolally as well! :blink:

[sp54]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Yi Win @ 21st July 2006 - 3:51 PM) 181770</div>
er......

maybe not - i may come out minus something vital!!! :bigeyes:
[/b]

But, Yi, you can trust me :devil: :thedevil: Mawahaha :P

[sp54]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Yi Win @ 21st July 2006 - 4:38 PM) 181783</div>
I can trust you???

With a signature like that?????????

(Yi Win starts running.......)
[/b]

:lol: :lol: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :thumbs:

[Miss Understood]

Yi Win

I'm glad it's not just me that's had the odd giddy spell the last week during this hot weather. And I'm grateful for the advice the others have given you - it applies to me too!


Though I guess, given I'm driving 120 miles per day, mainly through 'country' rather than 'motorway' then doing 8 hours challenging work on top, then having trouble sleeping because it's so hot I guess it's not surprising I'm a tad dizzy with it all!

[sp54]

:cry: What a rotten night :(

It was sooooooooo hot I have hardly slept at all. I saw every single hour tick by, and then at 4 am we had an almighty thunderstorm.

Saw 5 am pass, then finally must have dozed off as the temp dropped a little bit.

********tered!!!! :cry:

[Sparrow]

Oh dear sp54 hope you feel a bit better as the day goes on.
We were woken this morning at 7am by a couple of big bangs of thunder! Its just started raining - that very fine rain! :D The garden needs it. Its a lot cooler here this morning :D
We have had a letter from our water supplier this morning asking us to be careful with water and not to use hoses and sprinklers at night time as this is when they refill the underground water stores. It says just to use your common sense!

Sparrow :thumbs:

[Matthew]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sp54 @ 22nd July 2006 - 8:41 AM) 181896</div>It was sooooooooo hot I have hardly slept at all. I saw every single hour tick by, and then at 4 am we had an almighty thunderstorm. [/b]

We had that too sp, it was a loud one wasn't it! All huge bangs, crashes, etc - my dog/cat were not happy! Then I had to check the windows to make sure we weren't rained out, inside! :)

Hope you can catch up on your sleep later SP. B)

[Eeyore]

It is just hot sunny and humid here, heard 2 rolls of thunder in the night, that was it and they were in the distance, a few rolls far awy about 7am and 2 minutes of rain which soon dried up - couldn't sleep cos of the heat :(

Send a rainstorm this way (no thunder though, Star gets scared)

[Beth]

heard the first thunder at about 1.30am, and finally burnt its self out at 6.45am!

the noisiest roll was at 6am which made all the cheap car alarms go off in the area! :lol: it made me jump , mut have been right over the house and the animals were not happy bunnies....not that they are bunnies! :lol:

some of the garden was flooded this morning too but seems to be drying up now :yes:

[Bonkers Mad!!!]

it's still flippin' hot here :yes: i slept through the storm, pure exhaustion after so many nights not sleeping. i'm getting to the stage where i might kill somebody soon :lol:

[Lady Penelope]

:o Cracking thunder and lightening here at the mo in the South....poor Chicken Legs is beside himself :cry:

[Bonkers Mad!!!]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Lady Penelope @ 22nd July 2006 - 12:07 PM) 181957</div>
:o Cracking thunder and lightening here at the mo in the South....poor Chicken Legs is beside himself :cry:
[/b]


cool, i hope its heading my way LP :thumbs:

[Miss Understood]

We have a storm right overhead at the moment, just waiting to crack! It's just past midday and it's so dark, it could be 10pm! We need the lights on in the house. But, eerily, there's no thunder or lightning - yet!

[Lady Penelope]

:( Just wait MU it'll come.frightening the pants off me here oohhh er!

[Bonkers Mad!!!]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Miss Understood @ 22nd July 2006 - 12:15 PM) 181963</div>
We have a storm right overhead at the moment, just waiting to crack! It's just past midday and it's so dark, it could be 10pm! We need the lights on in the house. But, eerily, there's no thunder or lightning - yet!
[/b]


same here, got a bit of a breeze going on outside but no sign of rain, thunder or lightning yet :unsure:

[Miss Understood]

Well, an hour and a half and lots of torrential rain, thunder and lightning later, the sun's trying to come out again. It was so dark at one point all the street lights came on!

And it feels much cooler and fresher. I think I'll go and do Tesco now!

[Beth]

I went outside about 45mins ago and half emptied my water butt into buckets and watering cans, then it came again, boom boom clash with what sounded like marbles in a tin can on the roof, and now the water butt is full to the top again and the sun is out,

just as hot as it was, phew!

[Bonkers Mad!!!]

it's raining here now :yes: only one puny bit of thunder and no lightning, i'm very disappointed :lol:

[Eeyore]

;) Still hot, still sunny

[sp54]

Cloudy and raining a bit, but still hot & humid.

I am so, so tired :cry: It was quite some storm we had. It was right overhead for ages and minisp54 and me and mr sp were all up. I hate storms :(

[Miss Understood]

My daughter informs me we had a bit of a storm in the middle of the night. I slept through it and didn't hear a thing! She said she assumed I couldn't have heard it as she could hear me snoring!

[Sparrow]

For the last half hour its poured down here with rain and we have some huge bangs of thunder and lightening! :D Its still quite hot here - more so now we had to shut the doors and windows to stop the rain coming in! :thumbs: I hope its not like this tomorrow - we are suppossed to be having friends round for a barbie! ;)

Sparrow B)

[tiomet]

Oh nos, you all had tons of rain and I have not... gimme!

Though I did laugh. We went to Halifax to spoil ourselves (any trip to a bookshop is heaven for me and I came out with a couple of novels, a wonderful book on Germany and with German Grammar, and Dictionary books).

Anyway a storm broke as we were looking at the mobile telephones and all the shops suddenly plunged into darkness ... total power cut. The security people went all neurotic, presumably thinking that a blackout would mean total looting and pillaging. I just laughed until I got a stitch and they got all antsy with me. Maybe this is why my neighbours do not like me too, I tend to laugh at neurosis because it is so near and dear to my heart (I am Mrs Neu Rotic at times!)

Trouble is the storm only lasted about 5 minutes ... that is not even enough to slake my littlest pot plant :(

Please let it storm more here!

[Omega]

Well, we've just returned from Kent, again; we seemed to be behind the weather and never caught it up!!! Whilst I was "surfing the net" about 4 mins ago I heard this tremendous noise behind me - it was the wind rushing through an open window - I looked outside and it was like gale force winds and black skies :bigeyes: the neighbours washing has tied itself in knots on the washing line :hihi: No rain yet :cry: altho I was told we had a downpour earlier today :thumbs: Looks like storm clouds are coming over - waiting in trepidation :unsure: :hihi:

[Domestic Goddess]

We've just got back from our holiday in Weymouth...it was nice apart from the heat. We had no fans or air con and just sweltered! :( We went to the pool twice a day just to cool off, we'd get back and within minutes were hot and sweaty again. I am amazed that violent crime hasn't soared - I feel so cranky and irritable that I could turn nasty at any moment!!!! I think I got a touch of heatstroke, as one night I couldn't stop throwing up and was shaking with my teeth chattering. I kept sipping water, but got no sleep at all.

Om arrival home today we had a thunderstorm which was lovely, but the heat seems to be creeping up again. At least we are now home with all our fans on!!


Roll on autumn - golden leaves crunching under your feet, pumpkin pie, conkers etc Mmmmmmm!!!!

[Omega]

yea :thumbs: it's raining hard! :thumbs: :thumbs:

[Miss Understood]

Welcome back DG - I hope you managed to have a good holiday despite the heat!

[Beth]

my head is going to explode with all this pressure :(

another thunderstorm, I have lost count today I love a good thunder storm....but this is ridiculous now and I wish it would end

does any one else get blinding headaches with weather changes??

[mazza]

My Sis in Law gets really bad migraines with 'heavy' weather, so it's probably quite common :( .

No storms or humidity here - really OK actually!

I think I have got off very lightly from the sounds of it!

[Domestic Goddess]

I get thunderstorm headaches Beth - it's something to do with negative aons in the airs I was told.


I hate this heat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[Beth]

yi win ~ rain is an under statement!! :lol:

but its still so darn hot!!!

hope everyones head clear up soon x

[Beth]

:lol: you are more than welcome to it, wierd though the weather, I mean we are only a little way from you in Yorkshire!! and you are dry and we are soaked! :bigeyes:

[sp54]

Has anyone got one of those portable air con units you can buy - and if so are they any good???? :unsure:

They are very expensive so wouldn't want to get one without knowing someone who has one, but if this heat is set to carry on it will be worth it.

I NEED SOME SLEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :cry:

[Beth]

appartenly you can now get them from a well known super market that begins in S and is owned bya Lord S :D and that cook bloke does the ads for them ;)
about 170 quids :)

[mazza]

Aw poor SP, you really seem to be suffering :( . I hope you can get some respite soon :sad: .

[sp54]

Dibuzz,

Have a lovely, lovely time :thumbs:

Wish I was going to the LD - it is gorgeous there, and a whole lot less humid :P

Still trying to book a break in the UK ourselves, but so is everyone else, so no luck so far :(

Have a great time, Dibuzz.

Missing you already :P ;) :D

SP54, tired, hot & stressed & want some SLEEP xx

[coppernob]

Have a fab holiday, dibuzz, I'd love to visit the Lake District but my lot are not great travellers so I'll save that ont 'til they are a lot older!!
We had a storm in the night,so my daughter tells me :bigeyes: didn't hear a thing!! thunder was rumbling most of the morning but still humid then we had lots of rain for about an hour,didn't see np lightening thou! I'm another who gets headaches when a storms brewing and tetchy!! CN

[er 59]

:) have a great time dibbuz



Has anyone got one of those portable air con units you can buy - and if so are they any good???? :unsure: [/b]



sp

i have got one to be honest they do work as long as you keep your doors and windows closed but they are so damn noisy thats the downside oh and they have to be vented to an outside wall you wouldnt believe the heat they chuck outside

i lent mine to my sister because my nephew is poorly and i dont have the heart to ask for it back :cry:

[Annabel]

im not sure whether it has rained at all here! i went to lakeside in thurrock, essex so i could be in a nice airconditioned building (didnt work, not every shop has got it and the ladies loos were like a sweat box :rant: ), I am pretty sure it only rained a bit over there, i didnt hear any thunder at all.

this morning i was sweating cobs, got up, had a shower, then did some housework just a bit of hoovering and floor washing and had to go and have another shower...its abo********ely chronic, and I am pretty ********tered - i think i will go and buy an aircon unit for the bedroom before I go UTTERLY INSANE!!!!! :blink: :bigeyes: :angry:

[Miss Understood]

Tonight, it's really rather cool. Inside temp is as low as 22.7 degrees C. and outside temp is a positively freezing 17.8 degrees C as I type this :D I think I'll sleep like a babe tonight.

I don't have any shorts in my wardrobe so this afternoon, in desperation, I dug out a pair of old but servicable jeans and cut them off just above the knee. I've been wearing them ever since. And no, I didn't bother getting the sewing box out and hemming them!

My children have refused to let me leave the house until I change out of them!

[phantos02]

That's actually quite fashionable MU, don't listen to the kids!!!

[mazza]

I wish I could persuade my oldest little mazza to let me cut his jeans down - he's such a square and the only child for miles who insists on wearing trousers in this bloomin hot wether...I don't know where I have gone wrong!! :blink: