I want some nice weather, not all this horrible hot stuff

Thats the thing with outdoor work, sometimes you have to work in the rain and cold.

I actually felt the weather change last night and felt full of energy at 2am, today I'm tired and have another busy day.

I hate how it’s raining every time I want to busk that said on lazy days I love the rain and I only like suny weather for a busk or a beach dsy 

Me too, but now it is good autumn time.

I struggle in real hot weather, especially if it's humid too. I'm happy when I get into a t-shirt and shorts but need a jumper in the evening. Equally I luv the cold crisp days of autumn and winter. I also like a nice snowy period too. The thing that gets me down regardless of time of year is grey and murky days for weeks on end. I have brought a daylight lamp for winter, ask my GP suspect I suffer from SAD on top of everything else. Whilst I tolerate showery weather, prolonged rain has me worrying about flooding locally.

I’m the same way, I’d take snow and the sound of steady rain over sticky heat and sleepless nights any day. The whole BBQ smell lingering in the air when it’s hot out drives me a bit nuts too.

Funny enough, I’ve been looking at ways to make indoor spaces more bearable in the summer, and I stumbled across some PTHP units for sale, basically heating and cooling all in one. Not quite the same as a snowy night with icicles on the eaves, but at least it takes the edge off the worst of the heat until winter comes back around.

I've got a ceiling fan which is really good at moving hot air around, what I've found better is my dog cooling mat, I put it under my bottom sheet and it cools me down usually long enough to get to sleep.

At the start of the hot weather, I had opened the attic door to let the heat rise above the upstair ceilings. I shut it late yesterday afternoon, but left all the upstairs windows open until the evening, with the exception of one window which I left ajar all night.

My bedroom was a perfect temperature for sleeping with a 4.5 tog duvet pulled up to my waist. 

I'm hoping to sleep with my blanket on and my fan off tonight.

Today has been overcast and drizzly, I needed my jumper first thing as it was noticeably cooler. At last! 

It's been hot and dry for months here. It feels a lifetime since it rained and felt cold.

TheCatWoman said:

No luck I was still to hot last night.

Well, it's only a matter of time before we get a nice cold night. Sooner rather than later, one hopes.

Have you got a fan? Even a simple desk fan makes a big difference.

No luck I was still to hot last night.

lol thanks

TheCatWoman said:

temperature might be in single figures

For our American cousins, that means "in the 40s".

I might have to have TWO blankets on my bed tonight as the temperature might be in single figures for the first time in ages!

Somebody mentioned a Taylor Swift song called "Cruel summer" on another thread - I'm not familiar with it, but it reminded me of the Bananarama song of the same name, which has very relevant lyrics relating to this thread.

"Hot summer streets and the pavements are burning, I sit around

Trying to smile but the air is so heavy and dry

Strange voices are saying....... Things I can't understand

It's too close for comfort, this heat has got right out of hand"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ml3nyww80

For all you know she might have a mental illness. You assume she had no issues of her own.

She might have a fear of being ignored, or some other problem. Maybe the voices told her to say something. Or she was on drugs.

Best thing is to smile and wave and forget about it.

Don't always assume it is you.

TheCatWoman said:

For all the woman knew I might actually have been deaf or have severly impaired hearing. I wish people would remember to pack thier brains and their manners when they go on holiday.

I get terribly worked up about this sort of mindlessness. I can't understand how everyone is not paying attention to everything and everyone all the time and thinking everything through. I guess that's a bit of a theory of mind issue that I have.

I've found the stoical advice of Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) very helpful. I'll paraphrase:

"When you are offended by the poor conduct of others, immediately ask yourself, 'Is it possible that people like these could not exist in the world?' It is not possible. These people exist. You will meet them. Expect to meet them, and then when you do, they won't get to you so much."

I find this image is a good summary:

Did you give that rude woman what for or did you just carry on ignoring her? If you don’t mind me asking, you don’t have to answer that. I don’t watch tv (except for spingebob on paramount) and only time I use the internet is when I need help with a hard game or something. I just got triggered because thanks to this bully former manager of mine, everyone I see is just oh so perfect compared to me now and I just feel and look like an ugly thrump of a woman now so if I ever do go outside I always wear a hat to cover my face and I wear long baggy clothing too. I was always criticised for how I looked and what I wore at work and got very badly manipulated so that has shattered me big time and this was a few years ago and it still stings today. Also I suffer with heat strokes and the hot weather doesn’t help at all! Honestly the inside of a volcano is probably cooler if you ask me! 

For all the woman knew I might actually have been deaf or have severly impaired hearing. I wish people would remember to pack thier brains and their manners when they go on holiday.

I don't watch adverts, I don't read adverts, or the sorts of magazines or TV shows where people are competing about their stuff. I tend view a lot of stuff as cargo and I think we carry a lot of mental cargo too with all our feelings of inadaquacy over the things we don't have. Luckily living here we don't have huge bllboards or anything, no shops telling us how to look and what clothes to buy, if we could afford them. It's a nuisance when I actually want to buy something, but not being advertised at and made to feel inadaquate all the time is great.

Omg that is so very rude of that woman! If you didn’t hear her that’s ok and I’m so sorry you had to experience that. You could have had earbuds in or anything. Sorry you couldn’t have as longer walk with Fearn, it’s understandable in this heat and I also get unwell with the heat. And don’t get me started on the roads works that never get done! Ugh I tend to be cooped up for a long time now and I’m sad to say that I’ve got used to it since corona. I mean I freak out if I look out the window or see an ad with someone else now as I freak out about how I look and everything and how I don’t have a nice car etc. 

also I’m not able to have my windows open because I’m either welcoming bugs in of a day or having to smell burning fires of a night thanks to some new neighbours opposite the road who like to burn things at their leisure. I am looking forward to my holiday in Bermuda next month but now I think even though the kids will be back in school well the newborns and nursery kids won’t be in school so yeah I might not have a peaceful holiday after all. Typical