Coping with the heat.

[Woody girl]

I'm picking my tayberries 3 times a day atm. My fridge is full and I've had to have a freezer clearout(found stuff in the bottom with a date of 2024! Sadly had to throw out a well forgotten pack of lorne sausage and a pack of cheese crispy pancakes) to make some room. Also found a couple of ice lolly molds in the charity shop a while back, so have made mango and passion fruit smoothie ice lollys, and tayberry and honey ones, 6 of each.
Chatting to a younger friend about the heatwave, I mentioned cooling bedsheets, and he promptly ordered a set for himself , and a set for me there and then in the street from his phone. Some people are very kind, ...but he did have an alterior motive.... He wanted a set for his wife, and thanked me for being able to possibly get back in her good books. Apparently, the hot weather caused much grumpiness from his lady wife due to trying to cope with two fractious under fives in the heat, and had had little sleep. Poor chap!
Next thing is to try and get some sort of cheap cooling device.
My savings are rapidly dwindling with the extra electric and these items to try and help cope with the heat.
This scenario never entered my mind, so I'm set up for cold, rather than heat.

 

[Stew]

When I was a kid my dad used to put a large square fan over the opening of the loft hatch blowing upwards. It sucked cool air in through the downstairs windows and blew hot air upwards and out through the roof eaves. It works really well. The fan looked similar to the one in the picture below and on its low speed setting was silent and used very little energy.

Not quite the same but I've just opened up a roof hatch in one of my buildings. Three storey, two enclosed stairwells at each end that have had the weekend filling with hot air and nowhere to go. Doors wedged open top and bottom of each with external doors too. I popped up onto the roof and stood over the hatch. The blast of hot air shooting through was quite something!

 

[Woody girl]

Two days ago, the temperature was in the mid to high thirties, today it's 16° outside. A comfortable 21° in the house.
We've had a little sprinkle of rain for which the garden is grateful, and it's far more bearable, but daytime 16° ?
No time to acclimatise to anything.
I hear we are to expect another heatwave in early July back up to mid to high 30s.
The weather is very wonky this summer!
So what do I wear today?

 

[Woody girl]

29° in the shade at the bottom of the garden in the shade, north side of the house
43° in the shade at the top of the garden.

 

[Keith_Beef]

29° in the shade at the bottom of the garden in the shade, north side of the house
43° in the shade at the top of the garden.

A mere 36°C in the shade of the bay tree, here.

 

[bobnewboy]

31.5 C reported on my bike’s display. Riding into Taunton, post (successful!) MOT…..A bit too much with bike gear on if you’re in traffic

 

[Woody girl]

31.5 C reported on my bike’s display. Riding into Taunton, post (successful!) MOT…..A bit too much with bike gear on if you’re in traffic

Sure is! Summer 76, riding in jeans, trainers, cheesecloth shirt open face helmet and gloves. Still too hot! (Wiser now )and everyone wears leathers nowadays.
I don't envy you today.
Especially riding in town traffic.
Almost 27 in the house, but laying on my gel cooling mat is lovely!

 

[Lean'n'mean]

39°C here this afternoon & a relentless sun that would suck the moisture out of a gooseberry. It's only going to get hotter & we'll have to wait until the end of next week before temperatures start to drop below 30°C. It's currently 32°C as I post this.