AIBU to be fed up about heating on in late June grrr

I have a bad back and sciatic nerve trouble. My heating is on and I am in bed with a hot water bottle.

It’s lovely.

Is this the worst summer? I can’t remember one quite this awful.

It rained for about 5 minutes and now the sun's out.....if you don't like the weather, just wait a minute.

Just started raining here. Again.

Kali2

Heating off today- perhaps I just felt a bit under the weather yesterday- but yes temps about 13-14 in the Midlands.

But yes, so much easier to deal with cold than with heat. Friends in San Francisco say it is unberable at the moment, and further north temps of nearly 50C- this must be unbearable- especially for those who cannot afford cooling systems ... a disaster for wildlife.

It was about 18C here but it feels a but warmer now, have just opened the door to let some fresh air in and it's very pleasant.

It is better, I think, to be able to put on extra layers and the CH than to swelter in high temperatures.
I tolerate the heat less as I get older.

So pleased we turned heating on major breakdown !!! Glad it wasn’t the middle of winter .

Whitewavemark2

esspee too much whisky???

I never drink the stuff Whitewave. When I was wee and my teeth were coming in my dad used to rub my gums with the stuff. I associate the taste of whisky with pain.
Temp right now is 28.2C and I'm looking up the loch at the beauty of the Scottish Highlands.

All I needed to do was put an extra jumper on and a pair of socks. Then I was OK

Namsnanny

Real wooden logs on a real fire*lemongrove*?
Noooooo dont do it!!!
Thats a lovely cosy treat to look forward to in winter, in this house.
Sometimes the only thing to look forward to!!

Yes, real wood logs on a real fire..... it was lovely, so cosy last night.We have a good well stocked shed filled with logs from a silver birch that had to be cut down, so plenty left for Autumn and Winter.?

MOnica
I truly believe that if I’d been on my own many years ago hypothermia would have finished me off.
I’d got to the stage where I just wanted to go to sleep.

It's ROASTING in Central Scotland this week Heating hasn't been on for weeks

It’s not so fine in NE Scotland, but the sun is coming out now.

CanadianGran, I’ll swap your 27 c for my 31 c at lunchtime here in Southern Ontario ?

Here on the south coast we had very heavy rain yesterday evening which went on all night. The landscape looks rather flattened today and some houses in the village are sandbagged against the runoff from the fields. It's dry and bright but cloudy at the moment.

We stopped using our heating at the end of March and probably won't light the boiler again until early November. I wear cropped trousers, t-shirts and sandals most days and just slip a cardigan on if it's a bit fresh. DH seems to feel the cold more since he had radiotherapy treatment and lost a bit of weight, but he's stocked up on jumpers and cardigans to compensate.

I gave up last week and put the heating on - but turned it off before I went to bed! I was absolutely freezing. I HATE being cold.

Franbern I had hypothermia on Sunday. I was at a carboot sale and had several layers on and didn't feel cold, this is the danger of hypothermia, you do not feel cold and do not realise that you are very slowly cooling down. But when I got home I realised how chilled to the core (quite literally) I was, so I went and lay in a really hot bath for half an hour and then dressed warmly and had a hot drink.

I envy these people who seem not to feel the cold. I have always felt the cold, even as a child, and in recent years more than before. My mother and her sister were lso chilly mortals so I assume it is genetic.

I also hate a hot house so CH is a balance between a cool room temperature, that is not too cool to cause hypothermia and extra clothing. I find a thermostat setting of 18.5 degrees is about right.

Still waiting to wear my summer clothes. Hot water bottle every evening.

My husband always has the heating on I have to go outside it makes me feel ill

My heating has been on and off for the last couple of weeks, and last night I even put my electric blanket on for a short while - thank goodness I am in credit with my gas/electricity supplier.

DH goes by what's on the calendar rather than the temperature. I'm freezing in the evening and sit with a blanket around me but he just thinks it's some peculiar whim of mine.

‘Nesh’- there’s a lovely word we don’t hear too often down south! I use it a lot and my family are used to it. When we moved to Cornwall from Cheshire when I was six I was always told I was ‘nesh’ when I complained about being cold! I remember real cold ‘up North’ with thick snow and (horror!) no central heating! So I pride myself, adopted southerner as I am, of not being ‘nesh’ at all. More than I can say for my family!

Have your heating on whenever you want as I do. If I'm feeling chilly on it goes ?

Sounds awful for your friends Kali2.
I'm glad to be here!
Thick cloud, but a nice temperature today.

Beautiful photo esspee

Hope you feel better for the walk M0nica?

Heating off today- perhaps I just felt a bit under the weather yesterday- but yes temps about 13-14 in the Midlands.

But yes, so much easier to deal with cold than with heat. Friends in San Francisco say it is unberable at the moment, and further north temps of nearly 50C- this must be unbearable- especially for those who cannot afford cooling systems ... a disaster for wildlife.

I'm nesh and have a cardi handy for the cooler days.

Grey muggy day here today, mid Cornwall.

Don't like the muggy nights though but all windows are shut as I hate insects coming in, which they do in their hundreds.

Beautiful weather here in Lancashire too!