EXTREME WEATHER WARNING

In a weeks time there will be reports of dogs that have died in cars

Already happening. Two dogs were happily rescued recently in Oxfordshire from hot cars. Sadly two dogs died earlier this year in an earlier heat wave after being left in a car boot by a dog walker. She was later jailed.

Just as bad is the number of dogs that get heatstroke from being exercised in hot weather - accounts for about 75% of the dogs that get heatstroke. About 5% of dogs that get heatstroke die (Kennel Club stats).

Callistemon21

^but I was quite academic but not very practical and I’d had no experience of babies at all^.
Surely being academic doesn't prevent someone from having common sense?

I do remember a poor little not very bright Mum who used to bring her children into a CGC where we advised her the baby needed a sunhat in the hot weather. Baby was wearing a knitted bonnet. The next time she came baby was wearing a sunhat on top of the knitted bonnet.

Callistemon21

^but I was quite academic but not very practical and I’d had no experience of babies at all^.
Surely being academic doesn't prevent someone from having common sense?

I do remember a poor little not very bright Mum who used to bring her children into a CGC where we advised her the baby needed a sunhat in the hot weather. Baby was wearing a knitted bonnet. The next time she came baby was wearing a sunhat on top of the knitted bonnet.

I was just trying to point out that I wasn’t brainless and couldn’t think of a suitable word. I’m afraid I must be as stupid as the new mother with the two hatted baby. I had no experience of babies whatsoever as they always cried if I held them so I avoided them. It didn’t occur to me that the reason you had to keep them wrapped up because they couldn’t control their temperature so if it was cold you kept them warm and if it was hot you kept them cool. Academic is definitely the wrong word as I’m obviously pathetically stupid.

For example, if it gets really really hot as predicted, would lying on one's bed in one's underwear most of all day be a good idea, or would that be a bad idea? "Most" being because of the need to eat and to drink fluids and to go to the bathroom
I can remember holidays in Germany when I was perhaps 8 or 9 , visiting my Mum’s oldest friend in her city flat in Duisburg.
It was sweltering and Mum and Tante Erna would each repair to their respective bedrooms and have a lie down wearing only a silk slip. Tante Erna looked and sounded a lot like Marlene Dietrich and I found the silk slip (which was always black) made her an incredibly glamorous figure to me!
So whether or not it’s a good idea may depend on the underwear

The emphasis was always about wrapping baby up and putting them outside, wasn't it?
Unless it was foggy, of course.

Just fished out my diary from last year, I live in S Hampshire. Last year from the 17th - 24th July the temperature was above 25c, 18th - 21st was about 31c.
Mental note for next year maybe.

I was a student midwife, cycling around on a bone shaker bicycle provided by the hospital.
I well remember 1976!

Spare a thought for the firefighters in France & Portugal fighting wild fires must be unbearable with all their protective clothing and the raging heat. Over 6,000 people evacuated in France but fortunately no one injured.

MissAdventure

I can't even remember the year right.
I blame Elvis Presley.

Do you remember Mississippi in 1976?

LINK > 1976

MissAdventure

Post what you want to, stardreamer.
It's nobody's place to tell you what you may or may not.

But nobody has !! I merely expressed surprise that many people might know be aware if what to do as there is advice on tv ? n the press etc whenever it is hot. Nobody is having any kind of a go at stardreamer fgs

Oh boy!
I remember being at a diso with my best friend and the tune playing.

My mum had given us both a "half head" perm.

I looked like Leo Sayer, and my friend looked like a poodle!

Oops. Disco.

Great golden oldie song Stardreamer ?

MayBee70

Callistemon21

but I was quite academic but not very practical and I’d had no experience of babies at all.
Surely being academic doesn't prevent someone from having common sense?

I do remember a poor little not very bright Mum who used to bring her children into a CGC where we advised her the baby needed a sunhat in the hot weather. Baby was wearing a knitted bonnet. The next time she came baby was wearing a sunhat on top of the knitted bonnet.

I was just trying to point out that I wasn’t brainless and couldn’t think of a suitable word. I’m afraid I must be as stupid as the new mother with the two hatted baby. I had no experience of babies whatsoever as they always cried if I held them so I avoided them. It didn’t occur to me that the reason you had to keep them wrapped up because they couldn’t control their temperature so if it was cold you kept them warm and if it was hot you kept them cool. Academic is definitely the wrong word as I’m obviously pathetically stupid.

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound rude!
I was just surprised and no, I'm sure you aren't stupid.
I think we're all over-anxious with first babies and the rules change constantly (even if babies don't).

StarDreamer

> I guess if you’re indoors in a cooler environment, you would be less dehydrated (I don’t mean you personally!)

Another way to write that is as follows.

~> I guess if one is indoors in a cooler environment, one would be less dehydrated.

Thank you. I always welcome help with my grammar; not my strong subject.

This will perhaps cheer some people up.
Chance of record UK temperature revised by Met Office
The Met Office has revised its figure for the likelihood of a record high temperature for the UK during this heatwave.
It had suggested there was a 30% chance of the hottest temperature on record - beating the current high of 38.7C, registered in Cambridge in 2019.
However, that has now been reduced to 20%, or a one-in-five chance.

Excellent news.
I,wonder what the papers will make of that?

I was quite looking forward to lying around in me pants, though.

Casdon

This will perhaps cheer some people up.
Chance of record UK temperature revised by Met Office
The Met Office has revised its figure for the likelihood of a record high temperature for the UK during this heatwave.
It had suggested there was a 30% chance of the hottest temperature on record - beating the current high of 38.7C, registered in Cambridge in 2019.
However, that has now been reduced to 20%, or a one-in-five chance.

Panic over?????

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49072212

Some tips here

Shirley48

StarDreamer

> I guess if you’re indoors in a cooler environment, you would be less dehydrated (I don’t mean you personally!)

Another way to write that is as follows.

~> I guess if one is indoors in a cooler environment, one would be less dehydrated.

Thank you. I always welcome help with my grammar; not my strong subject.

Thank you.

However, actually I think that I was not totally correct.

I changed "you" to "one", which is fine.

However, I changed "you are" to become "one is".

"One is" is fine in many situations, for example,

One is able to buy a book about English history.

However, the sentence had "if", so I think that it should be "if one were" as MawtheMerrier wrote.

I think that this is because what is called the subjunctive mood of the verb "to be" needs to be used because the "if" means it is speculative of what might happen and not certain to happen.

The "one is" is the indicative mood.

I know that this is going off-topic but I feel that it is important that we get it correct.

So if anyone can bring this to completion, please do.

V3ra

Great golden oldie song Stardreamer ?

LINK > Pussycat - Mississippi 1975 / 1991 / 2013

Though it was 1976 when it was a big hit in the UK.

keep sipping the water...
also something a bit salty to eat might help.
or a banana, for the potassium.
i felt a bit better after a packet of crisps.

StarDreamer

Yes the summer of 1976 was hot.

I was much younger then than I am now.

I was working at a holiday camp in Wales and I remember the summer of 1976 very well…..

StarDreamer

MissAdventure

I can't even remember the year right.
I blame Elvis Presley.

Do you remember Mississippi in 1976?

LINK > 1976

Mississippi is one of my favourites..

Shinamae

StarDreamer

Yes the summer of 1976 was hot.

I was much younger then than I am now.

I was working at a holiday camp in Wales and I remember the summer of 1976 very well…..

I was working at a Hotel in Scarborough , never forgotten the summer of '76