AIBU to have had enough?

Well, at least you’d keep cool all night Bathsheba ?

I won't be trying the cool bath trick, even though it would almost certainly work and keep me cool all night through. If only for the reason that although I can manage to get in the bath, I cannot manage to get out again

Oh thanks for the tips! I shall try the cold water bottle one tonight.

hicaz, I was just about to post that tip! Having cool feet really does help to keep everything else cool. I wrap mine in a towel so I can comfortably keep my feet on it all night if necessary.

Fill a hot water bottle with cold water and put in fridge or freezer. Take it out just before bed time and take to bed with you to keep you cool all night!

Been a lot cooler here in N west Lancashire...quite nice actually ..Juts come back from Whitby been lovely apart from a Tuesday afternoon where we had to put our coats/cardies on lol.

Nice n cool tonight just enough for t shirt on.

Absolutely hate the horrible hot weather. We've been quite a lot cooler over the past few days and actually had some rain. I was so happy to be almost cold! Even had to put my Ugg slippers on. Lovely!

Everybody is going to have a go at me for saying it isn't nearly hot enough to send round an SOS about climate warming, demonstrably and in large parts caused by human activity. When food is scarce, water is scarce and global food distribution wars knock on the door more people will ditch their cars, shop ethically and take better care of the planet.

Lawns will recover! I love that we are actually having a summer, unlike the past many years.

I sympathise with everyone who can't manage the heat. I am an autumn winter person and so happy once nights start drawing in. I think it has much to do with your genetic makeup. I have friends who love the heat and are brown as berries, whilst I am pasty white.

I would like it to rain gently at night and not be quite so hot in the day but on the whole it is lovely to not have quite so much arthritic pain. The garden would also enjoy it more if it was watered nightly as the maker originally intended.

I bought the kitten one of those pet cooling mats which he has eyed with great suspicion but also surprise when he has remained on it for more than a wink of the eye so that the coolant is activated. I am thinking about getting another as it feels so good and our gardener loves it when I post it down the back of his chair when I give him a cold drink.

I cannot stand it, I am sweaty, bad tempered,sluggish and everything is such an effort.

I used to have the same luck as you Greyduster in fact people used to ask us when we were going away so they could avoid those weeks.
We went on holiday in the summer of 76 to Wales and it poured on the first day.

I am loving it.My dad was in India during the war and absolutely loved the heat. I'm sorry for those who don't like it but I shall be feeling just as unhappy as you are now when the cold weather arrives.

I’m in London. They are saying it could be 35 next week. Thank you for the cool bath advice I will try that

What makes me mad about this weather is the media’s use of the word WARM. How hot does it have to get before forecasts and news can say HOT?
It’s been HOT for weeks, it’s getting HOTTER and at its HOTTEST it’s killing people.
I blame Theresa May.

Just this year my ankles have started swelling and stiffening in the heat. I’ve never before felt negative about sunny weather, not even when working and pregnant in ‘76.
I’m taking every opportunity to put my feet up ...

I have been OK-ish in the heat..I seem to cope better now than when I was in my 40s .
We better all start doing our bit to reduce climate change to prevent it getting worse! Walk more/use public transport. Re-use & recycle and stop replacing all consumer items (clothes too) until absolutely necessary. Eat less/no meat. Buy local.

My mum loved the nice weather.
She was always as brown as a berry from doing the garden.
Whilst I sat in the shade, complaining...

Azie I m like you I feel miserable in the cold weather Oh I so love it now to wake each day and know I can go out without a coat, cardi, umbrella
I ve just been for a swim in the sea, then sat in my garden with a coffee The garden temp was 40 degrees 104 in old temps, I know a lot don’t like it but you can always get cool my living room is cool as a cucumber but we have so little hot weather and it makes me smile when we do I feel the cold so much more than the heat
Good job we re all different I think you’re right it is genetic myMum loved the hot weather and Dad was always in the garden

greyduster!

Have no fear! I am on holiday in nine days time and that will herald the end of the heatwave and the beginning of torrential downpours, I can almost guarantee! Pessimistic? Moi? I am off to mend my waterproof trousers!

We're all different aren't we! Heat tolerance may have a genetic basis. Come the winter I will be deeply miserable, unable to get warm however many clothes I wear, huddling by the radiator and shivering with freezing hands and feet. I have a core temperature several degrees below normal which is probably part of the reason for how I suffer in the cold, so in January I shall be saying 'I just can't bear this any longer'!!

If you can't do the bath thing, run the inside of your wrists under a cold tap. Also put a cold wet flannel on the back of your neck.

M0nica, I expect that you are being really, really economical, and not letting out the bath water, so that you can use it again and again. Ad infinitum. (No bubbles allowed). ? ? ? (Can't find a tongue firmly in cheek emoticon)