to hate this weather

I hate this weather with a vengeance - it makes me sleepless, irritable and unable to do anything other than sit in front of a fan and whine - my family hate me in hot weather. I also feel homicidal maniac tendencies coming to the fore. I just hope that nobody says 'Innit lovely?' because they are likely to get a punch on the nose at worst or be told to go and look at themselves in a full length mirror because they must look as hot, sweaty and beetroot faced as I do. Roll on the beautiful soft autumn - it can't come soon enough. And yes - the beer
gut/vest/tattoo brigade are also lucky that I don't have a machine gun. Did I mention too that I don't like hot weather...?

I am sitting here melting, feel so uncomfortable, glad I am not the only one who suffers.
I read all the advice for keeping cool. Blinds on the windows closed, cold drinks etc still feel like I am in a sauna.
Going to get cooler the end of the week, thank goodness.

About to head out to the sunbed for the afternoon with my Kindle.
Love it!! I take an electric fan out with me though so I can keep my face cool while the rest of me toasts.
It will be nice to get to Greece next week though to cool down a bit.

I loathe really hot weather as I sweat in even moderate sunshine - I think my thermostat conked out permanently at menopause - and just drip hideously all day. Also I have very pale skin so burn in minutes, but I laughed when I read whitewave's suggestion that we should wear sun tan cream, I would sweat it off in seconds!

I hate, hate this heat. I've done nothing all week except to slither from bed to sofa to chair to bed. I won't go outside and I'm dreading having to go down to London tomorrow. My asthma plays up in hot weather, and my every crevice gets sweaty and uncomfortable.

Did I mention that I hate this heat?

Not at all unreasonable - there's too cold and there's too hot.

No extremes are pleasant and in this weather I inwardly retch to see men who appear to be at least 2 years pregnant strolling along in shorts whilst beads of perspiration roll off their beer guts......No, no,no!

Last evening a group of us were shown around an outdoor art trail in leafy woodland. Starting at 6pm after that hot day, that's what i call a summer evening stroll

Not necessarily ok in the country! Added to the heat, no breeze, we have constant screeching building machinery 7 days a week. With everybody selling off their big gardens for housing, it is just about all year every year.

I spent yesterday morning at the local outdoor swimming pool.It is the one used by Boots in their summer advert. It was heavenly.
Havent got time today to go as busy in the garden and greenhouse watering everything before it gets too hot, then off to play bowls this afternoon.

Hoping to go to the pool again tomorrow. Love this weather as long as i have factor 50 and a shady area to sit in if i want to cool down.

Even here on the coast it is far too hot cant wait for it to drop a few degrees in a few days.
Feel so sorry for the baby Gulls on my extension flat roof. They must be sooo hot!

It is so much easier when retired. I really feel for those having to commute. I am short, and in crowded tube trains I am jammed with my nose up at sweaty armpit height, and everyone's heads meet over my own.

I don't mind the heat, takes away the desire to do anything energetic, but prefer it to grey overcast days, which I find quite claustrophobic,if that makes sense?

I enjoy the sun from sitting in the shade of an apple tree in our garden,this is the first summer we have been able to sit outside since we have moved into our new bungalow from the flat we had,so fabulous to open back door and soak up the free Vit D rays into the body it makes you feel so much better

The thing is, when it's cold you can wrap up, when it's so hot, there's only so much you can do. Glad it's cooler today. I sympathise with those who have to work XX

As I said in another post....we don't have the problem here on the North East Coast. We have had lovely weather but not so that it stifles our daily activities. Today a bit cloudy but with a decent cool but not cold breeze. The seasons change by day here..so never really get a chance to put my winter clothes away or my umbrella! ...but happy I moved here away from London. Easy for me to say..I'm retired. Enjoy it for what it is..it won't last long.

"has" finished! Bloomin' warm in this conservatory.

On Sunday we rigged up a fan with an extension lead, and put it on our patio for our large bunny and fat cat. They lay in front of it most of the day.
DH's low blood pressure doesn't help him in this weather and he has to keep his fluid levels up all the time.
DGC were very ratty when they came out of school, yesterday.
Luckily, our 16 yr old gas finished her 10 GCSE's. Awful to take exams in the heat.

It doesn't suit me either, but husband loves it. He was outside gardening yesterday in about 35°.
Most of the houses here have shutters and thick walls, so the locals close the shutters and stay indoors, where it's definitely cooler.

paddling pool, paddling pool and a couple of plastic jugs!
With a parasol strategically placed to keep the sun off the DGC

Works wonders.

We have to go to the supermarket - should be nice and cool in there
Yesterday I had mounds of washing to do and some housework - a step too far on a hot day.

Ah, but that can only be done ww if you have no committments, later today we have to pick up and amuse two small children who will be hot and grumpy by then!

How to enjoy this glorious weather

Shower

Slather yourself top to toe in sun cream

Dress in loose cotton trousers or shorts loose silk top with sleeves if you prefer or a loose dress but something that shields your skin from too many rays!!

Sun hat and sun glasses

Sandals

Enjoy the day until mid day then retreat to .the shade and enjoy an afternoon siesta with a good book.

Drink copiously - no alchohol - not good in the heat.

Late afternoon wake up shower and drift out for a meal or eat something easy at home.

Enjoy!!! It won't last long

Me too Christinefrance , cool days with a good breeze are perfect for me. And those days in late September when the sky is a deep blue, and there's a nip of autumn in the air. I have so much more energy when it's cooler. This heat just wipes me out.

christinefrance we had no snow this winter at all, and not much rain either. The climate seems to have evened out in the last few years here.

The weather has changed BlueBelle and we get far less rain, snow etc than we did.
I agree its not unreasonable to dislike the heat, I hate it but love windy, cool days and even snow, not everyone is a sun worshipper.

Yep. TOO hot..