General Chat

Still cooking today - tomorrow supposed to down a degree in the sunny south.

When we lived in north Hampshire they used to fly over our garden. Son came back from walking dog - they had been sat on the top of a hill watching the Arrows practise.

It is a wonderful sight.

What heat-wave ?...it's beautiful and sunny but sea mist :-(

Red Arrows at Sunderland air show were cancelled last night, hope they're flying today as, in past years, they fly over our garden, gotta love the Red Arrows :-D

VW Rally at Tynemouth so fingers crossed the mist doesn't roll in ... but a small penalty for living on a beautiful coastline. :-D

Hope you're feeling a little cooler now Chris
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Chris..that's how she's managed to get so old...lol

Stella - animals aren't daft :-D

If you have fans going hang a few wet towels in the path of the blowing air ,it will help cool the air down quicker as fans only blow the warm air about after a while,,,,,also it helps put moisture back in the air and helps the leaking skin and breathing , :-D.

distant rumble of thunder now :-D

my very old dog has been asleep on the lawn in the dark tonight bless her, i can only think it must have been nice and cool...

Thinking about it myself :-D :-D :-D

well still very hot here but just started to rain - big heavy spots of rain but oh so humid

Chris
I do hope your infection clears soon.
I'm lucky in that my living room is cool so if I just open the the windows it is comfortable.
It's currently 23 outside and 25 inside and just very pleasant after our rain earlier.


Barbara - you are so right. I certainly wouldn't attempt to work outside in very high temperatures. Madness :-0 :-0 :-0

It is raining in a sweaty sort of way ... I could almost be in Orchard Ave Singapore.

why not move to the Hebrides or the Shetlands then ?
no snow no heatwaves no mad cyclist racing no mad ponies no grockles

why on earth people queue up to buy a print newspaper in 2014 will be the subject of many masters degree dissertations ... maybe it is some sort of silver @surfer antidote to the internet or maybe a conspiracy by the dogs who also demand walkies around 10pm.

I have never seen why any community should organise itself around the demands of a minority especially a small one. Where we live there are a lot of kids who like to play soccer on the green and are quite noisy in a harmless loony young teens sort of way. Those who think that owning property gives them some sort of right of control over OP lifestyles lined up the community police, the council and landlords to have any number of rules to stop kinds being kids. I am proud to say that I led a counter campaign which squashed all this permanently.

I am now told that I am responsible for a large loss of rent and have been sent to coventry by UKIP. My heart bleeds.
:-D

Who has been doing the Rain Dance?

It has been gloriously hot here, I love it. I work in air-conditioned place so it is very comfortable. But walking to work is the beggar!

However, back to the point, it has not stopped raining on and off for four hours.

Thunder and lightening too. I can see to the end of the road, but after that, a grey haze.

Who pinched Canary Wharf? That David Copperfield?

Yes that is what we do too

Barbara - for the past few weeks OH has been doing actually that and others in our village have joined in. (Those not in employment)

He was in local shop for his newspaper 7.00 a. and there was a long queue and outside several dogs tied up patiently waiting.

I think a problem is that we don't do what people in other countries do in the hot summer months. In other countries they begin earlier and chores are done whilst it is cooler. They then rest up when it becomes too hot and then life begins again when it cools down a little later.
Must admit that the house we had when first married had warm air central heating. It was great as we could just have it blowing cold air everywhere.
No worries. In a few months we will all be saying it is too cold again.

We do have air conditioning in our car but I do not think you understand either.

Like others In GR I have severe COPD, outside of house use electric scooter, am on 24 hr oxygen, 3 inhalers, 14 tabs daily (at moment 21) and a nebuliser.
Have a Community Matron who visits at least once a week - daily if I am poorly.

There are those amongst us who have lived and still do with high temperatures - I also lived abroad for a time (not in Gulf) but it was 50 years ago.

Spare a thought for those less fortunate than yourself.

No go for me Rollo - pub crawls are out - and OH is sole driver now. Horror of horrors to drive through New Forest in this weather and broken down cars.

Many bird feeders/table feeder/bird bath in our garden. Attached up to oxygen etc.

Want rain - lots of it and lower temperatures.

It isn't all that hot anyway. I used to live in the Gulf where summer night time temperatures are over 40 C and daytime can hit 60 C.

Who has economised by buying a car without air conditioning?
Daft especially in London and the south.

Well one way around the problem in south hampshire is here:

http://www.theshiplymington.co.uk/
or here
http://www.theguninn.com/
or even here
http://www.theaa.com/pubs/hamble-le-rice-the-bugle-374999

and while the time away bird watching beside the blue sea.

OTOH if you are in Gosport or Portsmouth this is the best bet:

http://goo.gl/b1Ediv

I too hate this heat. its a wonder our house dosnt lift off I have so many fans going and its still hot.
Here in Essex last sunday we had a hell of a storm and torrential rain, and again today still no cooler though.:(
Still gives me something to moan about. lol. ;-)