Are we growing accustomed to the heatwave?

I think I am more resigned to it than accustomed. This week has certainly been cooler and the fresher evenings and early mornings have cooled the fabric of the house down and made sleeping easier.

I am not looking forward to the 30s next week again and who knows what is in store for us in August.

I feel very sorry and worried for the people caught up in the forest fires in France and Spain and am surprised we havent had scrubland fires here yet.

What is funny though is some people here look like old wrinkled brown leather and some like ghosts! I am the palest I have ever been in the summer.

I must point out that I don’t think the word ‘moaning’ is the correct word to use for all complaints about the hot weather. It has been detrimental to those with certain health problems, and there have been damaging wildfires and people killed in the water trying to cool off without mentioning disruptions to the rail service with many trains cancelled.
Of course there is moaning but also a lot of people genuinely concerned about increasingly hot summers and the climate change driving this.
Am happy others find the heatwave enjoyable but that doesn’t make anyone who isn’t enjoying it a moaning Minnie or unable to adapt.

Very high 20’s here and yes, we have got accustomed to it as we have had intense heat for weeks now in the Midlands.
Trying to live the Continental way - do chores and fetch shopping early mornings ( up around 6.30 a.m when it’s cool)
Stay in during midday to 4 pm,
and sit outside in the shade to eat evening meal - usually some medley of salad and cold meats or fish.
Happy we are having a Summer.
Winter in this country lasts far too long.

PS I do have a lung condition so I am not completely healthy .

I’m fine with how it is at the moment. Anything under 30 is right up my street but the fortnight when temps were reaching 36 in my neck of the woods was a bit much.

It’s difficult to enjoy summer when you are spending every minute trying to keep cool.

I’m less worried about the heat now but increasingly worried about the drought. I’ve got used to sitting for most of every day in front of the fan, bored and aware that I’m losing more muscle mass through inactivity.
What I moan about is the constant use of the word ‘warm’ when it’s HOT. How hot does it have to get before the weather forecasts say HOT instead of warm?

I am pleased that the weather is cooler than it was but I'm dreading the very high temperatures returning.
3 weeks ago I was alone in town,waiting for my bus home,when I collapsed with the heat.Fortunately some very kind strangers looked after me until the ambulance arrived.
I haven't ventured out alone since that happened .

I did two hours in the garden earlier, the washing’s on the line, hoovering’s done fridge tidied, bathroom cleaned.

Now what??? It’s only half past eleven!! In the winter I’d just be getting into my stride.
Too hot to bake which is my winter Saturday afternoons sorted and it’s far too hot for knitting. All my social activities take place during the week.
This is beginning to bring back memories of Lockdown but without DH. 😟
Oh well, it’ll have to be reading, YouTube for some music and wondering what random foodstuffs I can chuck in a salad.

I’m not even sure whether I’m having a moan or just thinking aloud although there’s nobody here to listen so even that’s pointless. 😂😂
PAH!

You've done more than me!
However, yesterday was busy, a quick clean around,visitors and meals involved using the oven which made me feel even hotter so today will be laid back, well that's the intention anyway.

I might pull a couple of weeds up. Or I might not.

I am listening merlotgran.
Am a full time carer for my DH and our activities are restricted at the best of times but in this heatwave it has been very like lockdown as you say. First thing in the morning we close curtains and blinds so our lovely home is like a cave, put on fans and an air cooler and hunker down indoors until evening when my DH is too tired to go out anyway so I sit in the backyard reading.
At weekends our family drive us to a park and we sit in the shade, sometimes we get an uber and do this during the week too but mainly we are hostages to the heat.
Have a DD in and out of hospital right now and that means I have to leave my DH with another DD whilst I go to see her and help with the GD, by the time I get there I am sweating profusely and feeling exhausted with it but there is no choice here.

Yes, I think we are getting used to it.
I've noticed I've gone through different phases, fist of all about drinking enough water daily, then noticing how bad my lawn is looking. Huge cracks as the house is on clay.
My latest concern is if the lawn is that cracked worries about the house 'drying out' and subsidence!
We desperately need some rain.
Then I watch the news and see the wildfires in France and Spain and that puts everything in perspective for me and I remind myself to stop fretting about a lawn!

Well, today I have been listening to an Oxford professor, who talked about food security and the fact that the U.K. has only a maximum of 3 weeks worth of food stored at any one time. He then went on to describe how the amount of productive land is shrinking because of the heat etc.

We must therefore not become complacent, nor think because we are coping better things are ok.

Well, today I have been listening to an Oxford professor, who talked about food security and the fact that the U.K. has only a maximum of 3 weeks worth of food stored at any one time

He clearly hasn’t taken my freezer (s) into account !
But seriously covering hundreds of thousands of acres of farming land with solar panels doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

He was talking world wide - not just the U.K.

As we import more food than we produce, we must take a world view of the issue.

Brazil is going to be very badly affected. So bang goes coffee, chocolate, nuts etc and of course tea..

Freezers are useless in a crises when almost certainly electricity will fail.

I think that the government’s advice is to store tins.

When we were in China I noticed they use every little space in the countryside for growing things to eat. Very sensible. Not many flowers, just vegetables.

I know this is going off the subject a bit - but related- apparently to produce a piece of beef for eating it takes 100 times more land than the same amount of plant protein. So replacing meat protein with plant protein may soon no longer be a life style choice but a necessity.

No. And never will.

Crumbly159

No. And never will.

Me neither😩
It’s spoiling my idea of Summer tbh.I still have to go to work, still have to do certain household chores and only mornings up to 9 a.m are any good to do anything which exerts.
On the meagre plus side I’m reading more books and doing hardly any cooking.
Easy meals, ready meals and salads.

Well the rain icon on the forecast for Sunday in London that has been on all week has now disappeared. 😩
And no rain forecast for the week after.
But I think there will be rain in the south west.

I feel far more upset about this than is sensible. But for days have looked forward to a bit of rain.

I sincerely hope we are because there is nothing we can do about it.
I know I am retired and do not have to go to work or even out in the midday sun, but I remember now to open windows/draw curtains as appropriate, wear a sun hat, sun cream, loose clothes etc.
But if I hear of someone being threatened because of waving those electric handheld fans about again I will understand and will probably join in. I sat next to a woman in a fairly fraught AGM and she held it two inches away from her face, (and my ear plus new hearing aid) for an hour and a half, so a constant whine which actually drowned out speakers .The Hall was cool and well ventilated and she really did not need it.

The only thing that makes the shutting of curtains blinds doors and windows and living in a cave a bit more bearable is getting up at 4 to 5 and watering pots, listening to a few birds and having a pot of coffee while the sun is gentle and the air smells of warm herbs.

I was out yesterday with some chums, we were saying how we are now getting used to the heat. Here in the Sunny South, where it has been in the 30's and high 20's most of the time, we had one of the highest UK temperatures recorded recently in our area.
Surprisingly I'm even sleeping fine.

I was in France a week ago and that was 45°.

I can't stand the heat, it's making me feel ill. To be fair I don't feel the cold I'm in the shirts in November