AIBU to have had enough?

You don't need to buy an overhead fan. We have two small portable ones (not expensive) which get moved from room to room as required. Makes a lot of difference. Stored in wardrobe for most of the year!

For the record: my late cousin loved the heat. She was at her happiest on a visit to Luxor - temp 40+. My sister loves the heat too. I don't. I get heatstroke and dehydrated fairly quickly so hot is not ideal for me. We are all different. So some of us can rejoice while others declare discomfort and take advice on how to cope.

As regards some of the comments: itchy skin is possibly a minor infection. I use witch hazel as first response and if that doesn't work, a fungicidal.

Lots of good advice here and I will add: place half a small bottle of water in the freezer and another small bottle in the fridge. When frozen top the half bottle up with the cold water. It will stay cold for hours.

Also, keep all windows and curtain drawn shut until the temperature outside drops below that inside. Close when opposite.

A cold wet flannel on the back of the neck is soothing. Also ccasionally wiping limbs with it can soothe or get a water spray and spritz yourself.

I sympathise with anyone going through the menopause in this heat.....I think if I'd had to nudge that I would have slept in a cool bath.

Oh dear my previous post seems to have disappeared into the ether.
I am loving the lower temperatures in Portugal we are enjoying while the UK has our hot weather. Only downside is it is usually more humid in the UK than here. Our weather forecasts are giving an unsettled summer with lower temperatues than usual so looks like the UK will continue to have high temperatures over the next month. Plenty of moaning about the weather here but in reverse. But not from me.

I can't wait until this heatwave ends. According to the weather forecast the week after next should be down to the lower 20's but still no rain. Here in Northamptonshire it has been and still is so hot and humid for too long. I just wish for a lovely cool breeze to get some energy back and get on with jobs I had planned to do. Just a lick and a spit lately!

Being in Scotland we have not had it quite so hot but I was loving the heatwave. It was great to be out in the sun and the grass will recover. Now we are back to cool grey weather though very little rain and my mood has fallen with the temperature. I dread winter.

The NW is a bit cooler today because it is cloudy but we have hot weather since late April when my relations came over from Canada. It has been 30's on some days. Grass is now straw and my bedding plants are dead. I am on a water meter. We have had about 1.1/2 days of rain in all those weeks. So it is not only the South of the country, we are suffering here also.

Those times don't make me thoroughly miserable though. This weather does!

Think how much you are saving on heating the water as it isn't freezing cold to start off with, and those chilly evenings when the heating has to go on,
battling down the road against the wind and rain, looking out the window yet again with rain beating against the panes making you feel thoroughly miserable,
wishing there could be some dry weather for a change, now there are pleasant warm evenings where we are able to sit outside chatting, into the late hours,
could go on, hope this weather does.

Nannan2 You accuse us of moaning (even though most of us have freely admitted that that is what we are doing) but aren't you here moaning about us moaning? We can't do much about the heat - but you can do something about reading a thread that clearly irritates you and that you were aware would from the beginning.
I am not quite clear what you are getting from this interaction.

Not everyone can afford an overhead fan and I think we have the sense to drink cold drinks etc

Perhaps sunlovers should leave us to chat about our dislike of very hot weather , O/P ? And have a ‘ I love this heat ‘ thread ?

We are leaving you in peace. You don't have to read any comments here, and I'm sure they make no difference to your enjoyment of the weather.
Opinions vary, that's all.

Ooh! Those cold sprays you can buy are good too.boots do their own one for 2.99!

All those who dont like the heat and cannot move somewhere colder- please buy a overhead fan like the previous poster who found it a great help- and make cold drinks,eat salads,wear 100% cotton and leave the sun lovers in peace as weathers on the change already (as kids schools have broken up for hols) and im sure it wont be long till our 'normal' rotten depressing british weather will be resumed.(and note to water companies- its a bit late to give hosepipe ban- bit like locking stable door etc etc..)

Yes, it would be nice to be able to move.
Unfortunately I'm not in a position to, for various reasons.
I think I'd be better off in Iceland!

I am finding it too hot. I prefer cooler weather. I always think you can put more on to keep warm but there is only so much you can take off !!

Maybe a move to cheshire then miss adventure?where its drizzling?

But given the title, you are under no obligation to read this thread.

I really don't like it when the temperature climbs over 24C. I'm perfectly happy up to that, but then I just can't bear it! I have taken to sleeping with the fan on all night, which is actually quite a soothing noise, and it drowns out the sound of my snoring, lol.

Sorry but i have to say it- go live where u do feel comfortable then.give us a break we usually have rotten weather and its not lasting forever.its changed in north already! I remember last summer when poor kids couldnt get a days decent weather to holiday or play out in- its been better for them to actually enjoy summer so far.some folk always have to have something to moan for,dear me.

Love it! here in SW France we have gone from torrential rain, hail and mud to a heatwave. I do have the advantage of a pool to hurl myself into many times a day, but even that is getting warm.

Lots of spectacular storms, the whole valley lit up for hours with lightening, and the rain at night is welcome. downside is that this type of weather has tried to turn the pool green and the weeds are gargantuan, we have a 12ft hollyhock in the garden!

Teenager son.darn phones got its own mind!

Its just not my idea of a 'good' summer.
A good one for me would be temperatures I feel comfortable in.

It's still drizzling here in Cheshire, though it has remained quite warm all this week, despite the clouds.

Make most of it! Theyve started advertising xmas holidays&xmas lunch bookings!Already! And yes it a great saving on fuel bills-if it werent for teenagee son who'd rather turn on the fan than open his window!