22c here... hot enough imv;)
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22c here... hot enough imv;)
Blimey! I'd just put a machine load of laundry on the line when I took that photo of the thermometer. It's dry already. Less than half an hour!
30C outside. It's already too hot for my liking and the temperature is rising fast, so it will be murder later!
Found a spray bottle of Avon Skin So Soft in the bathroom cabinet so sploshed plenty on before I took the dogs out. Never got bitten once. Love this stuff, it is better than jungle strength insect repellant :)
A lot cooler today...13c and both breezy and cloudy.
Not far off that here now... It was murder sleeping last night, and touched 30°C when I went to bed!
Going into the room was like walking into an oven, even with the windows open. That's the problem with having upstairs bedrooms, and an old (well insulated) house with very thick walls, in which the heat is ably retained, after the sun has been 'baking' them throughout the day. At the end of the day, with all the heat rising, you could grow tomatoes up there!!
The only way I can cope at the moment, during the day, is having the curtains closed in the lounge, to block out the sun (luckily ours are quite thick and made from a dark-ish material), and with an electric fan 'trained' on me, sat on the sofa, in not many clothes!
It's nice enough waking up to sunny mornings, but I really can't wait until this weather breaks and we get some rain, as it's so uncomfortable. Our houses simply aren't designed for this type of sustained hot weather.
Marco.
Roasting again. The thermometer is nudging 33C. Too bloody warm!
According to this, we have another month of roasting weather!
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-weathe...-july-11423537
sun is threatening but still cool here