Too, too warm

[Toddy]

This heat is brutal
I've been clearing out sheds for the past few days, and though I'm glad it's dry, it's far too blooming hot.
The temperature at the inside of the roof of the shed I'm working on just now is 47oC
I've given up until the evening.

No wonder folks in hot countries take siestas

cheers,
Toddy

 

[BorderReiver]

Ach Toddy, that's a job for the winter.

It's too hot for me down here in Norfolk and that's without working.

Just had a nice bimble in the woods with a dog; cool and refreshing. Shame I had to come home really but I've got the tea to cook.

 

[Cobweb]

Sunburnt yesterday toggin a wedding, stayed inside today. It's silly hot for this time of year

 

[w00dsmoke]

I agree with you Toddy, here in the West it's way too hot. I went birding and fishing on some wee lochans out on Rannoch Moor on Friday and it was lovely. I made the mistake of covering my arms in Avon skin so soft for the midges but there was a fair skelp of wind so hardly any showed up but my arms and shoulders are like a lobsters after the cooking now! Doh! It's the first time I've been sun burnt since I was a kid and foolish me thought that the cooling wind would stop me burning er no pmsl I could only get to sleep by wrapping damp t towels around my arms and shoulders Oh dear it's time this old dog learned some new tricks! hahaha

Well it's to get up to ten degrees cooler over the next week so I think I'll take the kayak up the west coast with Midgie (my good lady) and enjoy the fair weather!

 

[John Fenna]

I went canoeing on the Nevern and the sea today..if it had not been for a force 3-4 it would have been far too hot!
I tried sitting in the garden with a cuppa when I got home but had to retreat out of the sun!
Factor 60 sun creme has kept me from burning ...but it sure helps sand stick to you!

 

[Iona]

Spent today digging my new veg patch, which at the moment would be more acurately described as my bracken patch... in the Midday heat.:11doh:

Back to work tomorrow though, which, although it means working next to 3 bread ovens all day, also means nearly 2 hours of woods walking to get there and back. And it's never too hot in the woods!

 

[susi]

Our thermometer hit 29 Celsius here in Finland today, and with a sunset time of 11pm, it's gonna be a hot night to try and sleep.

Still we pay for it in the Winter, with only 5 hours of sun-up.

 

[Shewie]

I've been in the garden all day with just a pair of shorts on, I like hot weather though.

There was just enough of a breeze to keep it civilised I thought.

 

[locum76]

I've been sat outside the past two days doing a stall at gardening Scotland, and I was out all day on friday at work. I am now seriously sun addled.:werd:

 

[Steve27752]

Too hot? Your having a laugh! I`m hoping for a looooong HOT summer.

 

[Peter_t]

not nice if your a tree surgeon, health and safty make us wear chainsaw protective trousers which are almost unbarable in the heat on the hotest days there is a real posability of heat stroke if you dont drink enough. also theres the horid fealing of wet sweaty legs when you take them off

pete

 

[wanderingblade]

Ach, what a bunch of cissies!
Been diging over the allotment yesterday - whacking together a shed today.

Bloomin' lovely weather!

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

We were on Loch Lomond y'day, enuff breeze to stay cool. Nephew loved swimming with a shorty on. It was packed out, busy for May.

Too hot today on Rhu, midegs biting in the shade.

Nick

 

[Wayland]

Been in the woods today, just about right in the shade.

 

[John Fenna]

Spheres are good at retaining heat...I resemble a sphere too well to enjoy hot weather and am better off in the cold.....

 

[Toddy]

John, that's a brilliant bit of lateral thinking
I'm all spherey

atb,
M

 

[rik_uk3]

I mus admit that I loved the hot weather in Cyprus when I lived there, but after a few weeks of temperatures well in the 40's I would often wish for a good downpour of rain. I was there 87/88 and the local radio even issued heat warning as the temps were hitting 45+ during the day and in fact some local people died that season. Back then, some locals would sleep on the flat roofs of their homes just to try and keep cooler at night.

After living there a couple of months one local refused to serve me a beer one lunchtime, he said "No beer in the day time Rich, only stupid tourist drink alcohol in the heat, your one of us now" That was the last time I got charged tourist prices for food and drink there, after that I got charged 'locals' rate Wonderful people.

 

[gregorach]

This heat is brutal
I've been clearing out sheds for the past few days, and though I'm glad it's dry, it's far too blooming hot.
The temperature at the inside of the roof of the shed I'm working on just now is 47oC
I've given up until the evening.

No wonder folks in hot countries take siestas

cheers,
Toddy

Aye, 48 degrees and 90% humidity in the greenhouse yesterday... And that's with all the vents open. Brutal!

Fortunately, my very generous allotment neighbours had a cooler and a spare beer. Lovely people.

 

[Grooveski]

My secret weapon for combating the heat(getting all my hair hacked off) worked wonders until I realised my neck was burning.
No complaints here though, long may it last.

Spent sunday in Kevs garden sanding the new canoe down in preparation for a proper varnish job. Kept getting the urge to dump the sandpaper, bundle the boat on the car and head for water but determined to see it nicely sealed first.

 

[Tony]

Hot hot hot hot hot hot hot.......Toooooo Hot