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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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  • I can't do anything in this hot weather and panic and feel claustrophobic when I look at the weather forecast and see the high temperatures.

    But I did find a good solution to my home heating up. I've put silver car windscreen shades on the outside of the windows in a south facing room, tied on with elastic at the top and bottom (which you can do from the inside). This stops the heat from getting in in the first place and has massively reduced the temperature in the room. I also have blankets or bedspreads on the inside on the net curtain rail, plus the blinds. But the outside shades make the biggest difference. 

    Then I also have a wet towel around my neck and another on my legs. Then  a fan on wet skin feels cooler. Putting my feet in a bowl of cold water is good too.

    It's comforting to know I'm not the only one finding this summer so hard. It just feels surreal! 

  • in reply to Rachel Alice
    Rachel Alice said:
    It just feels surreal

    What is disturbing is how it gets worse every year and new records are broken.

  • in reply to B

    I would like the politicians to swap places with people in hot flats so they make more empathetic decisions for the future! 

  • in reply to Marianne72
    Marianne72 said:
    I love my rituals of closing all the curtains of my bungalow and locking doors at night, then the reverse in the morning.

    Ohhh - so do I! In my two south-facing rooms upstairs I have long voile curtains in front of the blinds, so I can just draw them on warm (not hot!) nights. They look so nice and give privacy with light.

  • in reply to B
    B said:
    Shutters for rooms must be of great benefit

    I'd love shutters. Not only the coolness, but seeing light filter through, the act of opening and closing them and the ability to 'become invisible' at will. I love my rituals of closing all the curtains of my bungalow and locking doors at night, then the reverse in the morning.

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  • in reply to B
    B said:
    Shutters for rooms must be of great benefit

    I'd love shutters. Not only the coolness, but seeing light filter through, the act of opening and closing them and the ability to 'become invisible' at will. I love my rituals of closing all the curtains of my bungalow and locking doors at night, then the reverse in the morning.

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