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Not looking forward to extreme heat

Homebird

It is just about reaching as hot as I can bear, towards the upper 20s. If we get extreme heat for a few days I get through it by thinking that it will be over soon. At the moment next week is predicted to be around 30 all week and often the prediction gets higher as it gets closer.

I like to be outside at least some of each day, but I am not sure there will be much that is bearable. 

I am hoping they have got it wrong and it reduces sooner than Monday week.

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  • Do any of the older (40s+) people on the group recall instructions for people of any age to stay at home years ago when it was30 degrees? I completely understand that vulnerable people need to but my work has just sent us home and told us to work from home if we can for the rest of the week (fine, I can save on the train fare) and the train companies are saying the same. Just seems to be a new thing as I don’t remember this approach in the past. As I say, not knocking it, but the change is playing into my autistic dislike of change.

  • in reply to JD-on-sea
    JD-on-sea said:
    Just seems to be a new thing as I don’t remember this approach in the past.

    If working from home involves PCs or other technology, that could be why, as in the past they didn't exist.

    For example, when I was a legal assistant, I couldn't have worked from home - that would have involved taking files, using the phone and a typewriter.  It was completely boiling sometimes in that Victorian, south facing, large windowed office.

    I stopped working around a decade ago and I don't think I was ever sent home but then we are now having regular record breaking temperatures.

    Some of the places I worked had air con so then being sent home would have been the worst idea.

    We have a red health alert where I live now - I would much rather be at home if I could although it's boiling here too, I do have air con units.

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  • in reply to JD-on-sea
    JD-on-sea said:
    Just seems to be a new thing as I don’t remember this approach in the past.

    If working from home involves PCs or other technology, that could be why, as in the past they didn't exist.

    For example, when I was a legal assistant, I couldn't have worked from home - that would have involved taking files, using the phone and a typewriter.  It was completely boiling sometimes in that Victorian, south facing, large windowed office.

    I stopped working around a decade ago and I don't think I was ever sent home but then we are now having regular record breaking temperatures.

    Some of the places I worked had air con so then being sent home would have been the worst idea.

    We have a red health alert where I live now - I would much rather be at home if I could although it's boiling here too, I do have air con units.

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