EXTREME WEATHER WARNING

It’s 26C here so I came back from Aldi with these!

Bit daft really because I’m supposed to be counting calories and watching carbs. ?

Sago

I’ve just been to Lidl and come home with an ice making machine, I’ve filled it with water, switched it on and the first cubes came off the production line within 10 minutes.
So lots of ice cold gin and tonics to sip whilst I worry about the hot weather?.

All you need now Sago is your own gin still and a Sodastream for the tonic!
Oh and a lemon tree ?

I have just bought a big tub of ice cream. I've been eating salad all week as a healthy low cal meal.
Should save the ice cream for Monday when it's expected to be 33 degrees here. I'm fooling myself that I won't put weight on in such hot weather ?

Don't forget; no alcohol.

I know I should have bought that icecream maker ?

it's 45o here. Man up! or rather Woman up!

Pinkhousegirl

it's 45o here. Man up! or rather Woman up!

Any good tips apart from Man up! or rather Woman up!?

Urgh!! 45.
Sounds like hell on earth.
Literally .

It is summer, a bit hotter than expected, so what, we've had this before and no-one gave out instructions or warnings of this sort, personally there are too many people trying to scare us all, nothing to do now that we have become used to Covid.

Ditto to some salt with your water.
An extreme case, I know, but when in Darwin (Oz) a few years ago, during an incredibly humid period, we were exhorted while on a tour to drink plenty of water, but nobody mentioned salt - probably because it’s a dirty word nowadays.

The humidity was such that I was practically wringing my hair out every few minutes, and started to feel terribly tired. But it occurred to me that when we were living in Oman, where for a couple of months each summer we’d get the tail end of the monsoon - no rain, but about 100% humidity - we all took salt tablets, which were provided by the company.

After recalling that, I put plenty of salt on my chips at lunch (buffalo pie or quiche!) and felt much better afterwards.

coastalgran wrote ^... now that we have become used to Covid."

When you say "we" ...

MissAdventure

Don't forget; no alcohol.

Oops!
Forgotten already!
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MissAdventure

Urgh!! 45.
Sounds like hell on earth.
Literally .

I was saying how hot it was in Oz one year (39C) and DD's FIL said he remembered when it got to 50C when the wind came from the desert.

I think it was in the low 40s once when I was on holiday.
I hate it!!

Between 21C and 24C is just right!

I am seriously struggling with it - I feel very dehydrated despite drinking continually throughout the day. I have a nasty little auto-immune condition which dehydrates me anyway, so take tablets to increase my tears and saliva etc so I always drink a lot anyway, but that generally means I need to go to the loo about every 30 minutes - over the last few days it has dropped down to 3 times in the day! On top of that I also suffer from a dysregulated temperature control, so am continually sweating too, and do have tablets to stop that too but that just dehydrates me even more so rarely take them.

I live in a conservatory, which does have air-conditioning but to be honest I cannot afford to put it on, although have done as it has been unbearable!

It's making me feel really poorly, and I am absolutely dreading Sunday onwards!!

I also take pills to make me eyes lu riveted, which make me dribble.
Even that has dried up, these last few days.

Hence I can't see what,I'm writing half the time.
So excuse all the mistakes and commas.

All these dire weather warnings! We’ve actually had heatwaves before now (yes, really!) but you would never think it with all the media and met office panic about pollution, sunburn, sunstroke, adequate hydration etc etc! I remember the glorious summer of 1976 when the sun seemed to shine forever and there was no nanny state to keep a concerned eye on proceedings! Never mind, it will be winter soon enough with the warnings of hypothermia, snow induced chaos and failed gritters! Ah well….

When we lived in Seychelles, OH took salt tablets as he worked outside quite a lot. Cairo was a lot hotter when he lived there but he was driven from his air conditioned house in an air conditioned car to his air conditioned office. We tended not to go outside before 6 pm.

MadeInYorkshire

I am seriously struggling with it - I feel very dehydrated despite drinking continually throughout the day. I have a nasty little auto-immune condition which dehydrates me anyway, so take tablets to increase my tears and saliva etc so I always drink a lot anyway, but that generally means I need to go to the loo about every 30 minutes - over the last few days it has dropped down to 3 times in the day! On top of that I also suffer from a dysregulated temperature control, so am continually sweating too, and do have tablets to stop that too but that just dehydrates me even more so rarely take them.

I live in a conservatory, which does have air-conditioning but to be honest I cannot afford to put it on, although have done as it has been unbearable!

It's making me feel really poorly, and I am absolutely dreading Sunday onwards!!

You can't go on like that.
Try some of the suggestions here, or at least put a cool damp towel on the back of your neck.
Try a,little pinch of salt in your next drink, please?

Here we go again!!!!

MissAdventure

MadeInYorkshire

I am seriously struggling with it - I feel very dehydrated despite drinking continually throughout the day. I have a nasty little auto-immune condition which dehydrates me anyway, so take tablets to increase my tears and saliva etc so I always drink a lot anyway, but that generally means I need to go to the loo about every 30 minutes - over the last few days it has dropped down to 3 times in the day! On top of that I also suffer from a dysregulated temperature control, so am continually sweating too, and do have tablets to stop that too but that just dehydrates me even more so rarely take them.

I live in a conservatory, which does have air-conditioning but to be honest I cannot afford to put it on, although have done as it has been unbearable!

It's making me feel really poorly, and I am absolutely dreading Sunday onwards!!

You can't go on like that.
Try some of the suggestions here, or at least put a cool damp towel on the back of your neck.
Try a,little pinch of salt in your next drink, please?

You don’t actually live in a conservatory do you MadeInYorkshire? If you do, you need to find somewhere else to be for the three hot days being predicted, because that is not safe at all. Is there anybody you could stay with for the duration?

Oh blimey..
I keep worrying now.

Casdon

MissAdventure

MadeInYorkshire

I am seriously struggling with it - I feel very dehydrated despite drinking continually throughout the day. I have a nasty little auto-immune condition which dehydrates me anyway, so take tablets to increase my tears and saliva etc so I always drink a lot anyway, but that generally means I need to go to the loo about every 30 minutes - over the last few days it has dropped down to 3 times in the day! On top of that I also suffer from a dysregulated temperature control, so am continually sweating too, and do have tablets to stop that too but that just dehydrates me even more so rarely take them.

I live in a conservatory, which does have air-conditioning but to be honest I cannot afford to put it on, although have done as it has been unbearable!

It's making me feel really poorly, and I am absolutely dreading Sunday onwards!!

You can't go on like that.
Try some of the suggestions here, or at least put a cool damp towel on the back of your neck.
Try a,little pinch of salt in your next drink, please?

You don’t actually live in a conservatory do you MadeInYorkshire? If you do, you need to find somewhere else to be for the three hot days being predicted, because that is not safe at all. Is there anybody you could stay with for the duration?

I do actually!

I can go elsewhere but all my bits are in here - am disabled and sleep in a chair, and need to be downstairs .... moved here in January, along with the rest of my family - it's a big room and had aircon and underfloor heating, but I need a roof, now I have tried living in it in the summer as it is south facing, but as the rest of the house is non standard construction (but has been repaired and they have stood here for a very long time and none have fallen down!) I am struggling to find someone to lend on it - we need to get the house working for all of us, as it isn't at the moment but I never thought it would be so difficult ....