Coping with the heat.

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Buy a roll of this stuff and tape it to the OUTSIDE of any windows facing the sun. It is vert effective and relatively cheap. Do not be tempted to tape it to the inside, although it may be easier, or you risk cracking your window pane. This method is especially good on Velux style windows.

With Velux you can get Velux external roller blinds which go inside the frame. You fit them yourself with a few screws. Absolute game changer.

Link for info, but I shopped around:

Edit: I mention these as I was looking at getting the external films but didn't like the fact that it would then be a year-round light limiting thing unless I removed and reapplied it as the seasons change.
 
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With Velux you can get Velux external roller blinds which go inside the frame. You fit them yourself with a few screws. Absolute game changer.

Link for info, but I shopped around:

Edit: I mention these as I was looking at getting the external films but didn't like the fact that it would then be a year-round light limiting thing unless I removed and reapplied it as the seasons change.

Yeh, but at around £80 a window (small one) I think I'll stick to my 'string and sticky tape' solution :)
 
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Just checked the temp of the water in my foot deep wildlife pond..35° at 1.20pm.
30° in the shade next to the house, 37° at the top of the garden in shade under the apple tree.
My phone says its only 31° outside.
Either I've got 3 different wrong thermometers, or someone is telling porkies!
The street is so quiet , nothing moving,, not even the bees or birds.
My little tame sparrows , are usually flying up to me within a few seconds of me going outside, not a sign of them.
I have water in shallow trays all about the garden for wildlife, but its evaporated within an hour, or too hot for the wildlife to drink, even if it's shaded.
This is getting silly.
Checked on an elderly friend yesterday evening about 7pm, they had a bad headache and hadn't drunk all day, skin dry, not sweating, didn't want a drink, just wanted to sleep... electrolyte mixture made up, got them to sip it slowly. ambulance called. Waited untill they arrived, (1.30hrs) diagnosis, severe dehydration. Off for an I V, rehydration at the hospital.
Thank heavens I called by!
Don't forget to check on your elderly neighbours folks. Know the signs!
 
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My phone says its only 31° outside.
Either I've got 3 different wrong thermometers, or someone is telling porkies!
Your phone is probably getting that 31°C from an observation station... It could be the Met Office, a home monitor affiliated with Weather Underground, or some other network.

It could even be a "virtual observation" made by interpolating from several real observations.
 
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Dehydrated Neighbor is coming home this evening.. he just rang me to say thanks. I'm very happy. Glad to be of service.
Suffering a bit myself today. Hands swollen and painful. Apparently extreme heat can trigger auto immune responses. I do have a bit of arthritis in my hands. Seems to have been triggered by the heat.
Blow this for a game of soldiers!
It's not funny now.
The youngsters are fine but some of us oldies are struggling somewhat.
 
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Just checked the temp of the water in my foot deep wildlife pond..35° at 1.20pm.
30° in the shade next to the house, 37° at the top of the garden in shade under the apple tree.
My phone says its only 31° outside.
Either I've got 3 different wrong thermometers, or someone is telling porkies!
The street is so quiet , nothing moving,, not even the bees or birds.
My little tame sparrows , are usually flying up to me within a few seconds of me going outside, not a sign of them.
I have water in shallow trays all about the garden for wildlife, but its evaporated within an hour, or too hot for the wildlife to drink, even if it's shaded.
This is getting silly.
Checked on an elderly friend yesterday evening about 7pm, they had a bad headache and hadn't drunk all day, skin dry, not sweating, didn't want a drink, just wanted to sleep... electrolyte mixture made up, got them to sip it slowly. ambulance called. Waited untill they arrived, (1.30hrs) diagnosis, severe dehydration. Off for an I V, rehydration at the hospital.
Thank heavens I called by!
Don't forget to check on your elderly neighbours folks. Know the signs!

Taunton is a tarmac jungle....
Did you get the supercell the other week.....glastonbury was weird!!!!



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I put a couple of 1.5L old pop bottles filled with my favourite low sugar squash in the freezer the other day. Got one out today, been stood in a bowl to catch the condensation, gradually drank the thawing chilled squash. Good way of having a constant supply of chilled liquid, little and often.

Will refill the bottle before I go to bed.

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Did you get the supercell the other week.....glastonbury was weird!!!!

I live off the left of that photo, the view was pretty much the second one as it rolled it, but it was mostly purple, it looked straight out of the oblivion game, just waiting for the oblivion gate to appear

There was something liek 20,000 lightning strikes over glastonbury , had loads of clients phone up saying their internet had gone down, loads of power outages...we had about 4 inches of rain in space of 20 mins, completely horizontal 75mph winds, water running walls as the rain had gone upwards underneath roof tiles,

then 20 mins later it was all gone a couple of hours later the heat had dried up everything

but then the next morning the humidity was awfull
 
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It's English! Like
pair..Two of a thing
pear a juicy fruit
and pare to take the rind off say an apple, potato or lemon.
It's funny, but us lot don't give it a second thought, for instance, you can say two pairs, meaning two lots of two, ie shoes
Or two pears, meaning two fruits.
It's all about context as both sound exactly the same.
 
Squash is a concentrate that is diluted with water to make a flavoured drink.....
OK I get it. We too have drinks like that, concentrated stuff that need to be diluted with water. We just call it concentrated juice.
 
30° in the shade next to the house, 37° at the top of the garden in shade under the apple tree.
My phone says its only 31° outside.
Either I've got 3 different wrong thermometers, or someone is telling porkies!
I think your over reading thermometer has come up before during a hot period when your garden was technically the hottest in the land :D

Well done for checking the neighbour! Both my parents are terrible for not drinking water, the ‘cup of tea’ generation. I went round today with a few lemons and made lemonade. They have Lo-Salt and regular so a bit of each went in the mix.
 
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