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[mumofoneAloneandwell]

I am not coping

Just think by end of August it starts getting cooler and that's not too far away. Now the solstice has been it starts to get darker earlier too yay!

9 weeks to autumn! By the end of September, it will be leaves falling off trees, jumpers and jeans, and hot chocolate.

Ive put them downstairs where its cool and shut the door at bottom of the stairs. Now they are fine. Cats are creatures of habit and both want to sleep in their usual spots upstairs but its much too hot up there. We will all be sleeping down here for now. The fans are on. I take good care of my kitties.

Yes. There are about 6 water bowls down here and the fans are on. Shes gone outside now to lie under my big tree.

Agreed. If I start thinking about that, there’s a very large possibility of a major panic attack.

I’ve decided I’m going to try and hitch a white fitted sheet to my middle two living room tilt and turn windows tomorrow. AI has walked me through the whole thing. In an ideal world I’d shove up my two remaining emergency blankets but the people living opposite would get the full glare. Plus you know, the whole looking like I’m cooking meth thing.

My living room got to a disgusting 32 degrees today; and that was after managing to cool it a fair bit last night so tomorrow will be even worse given tonight’s lack of cooling ability.

Trying not to panic too much. And thank you to everyone on this thread, btw. Being able to talk it all through with likeminded citizens and not the usual ‘suck it up’ brigade has been such a help.

Two more days 🤞
Stay strong.

😭I can't bear it.

I know. But the end is in sight.

Did a wash earlier All my tops that were washed were pulled out of the washing machine and put in a carrier bag so they stay wet.

I must buy an air conditioner unit once they come back into stock!!

Today has been the worst day by far for me. It's 29° downstairs and 32° upstairs. Im literally just sat here watching the hours tick by. Everything is on hold until Sunday. I've got a friend staying tonight and she's arriving shortly. Have contemplated putting a bra on but I very quickly sacked that ridiculous idea off!

Worst day for me too. I think it actually made it worse closing the downstairs doors because it made no difference to the temp upstairs (still at 30) and the living room is a disgusting 33! And that was after managing to cool everything to a comfortable 24 overnight.

it’s the fucking sun on those windows that does it from around 2/3pm til sunset.

I will never, ever live in an east/west facing building again. I just didn’t know how bad the heat would be.

Maybe next week we'll make a thread to moan about you being so fucking goady 🙄

Something has been bothering me and i couldnt put my finger on it until now. Camden told them to open windows and doors for ventilation. But flats are fitted with fire doors now which must be kept closed. So have they (CC) broken fire safety rules to make a point about air con.

I’m also unsure as to what a ‘cooling hierarchy’ might be.

Its nearly 4am....I can't get to sleep...since opening the windows up this evening my bedroom has gone from a high of 28.5 degrees to 26.1....its only decreased by 2.4 degrees and today is going to possibly even hotter then yesterday (36 but feels like 40)!! I just cannot with this heat and humidity...it's utterly exhausting and SO uncomfortable! 😭

I am in the same boat. My bedroom is still 32°!!! Outside temp is apparently 22°. I am in a terrace so I’m going to guess that is why. What a terrible night.

Yeah, this. I’ve had so little sleep this past week and have been posting on Mumsnet pretty much full time to counteract my tiredness.

I am so not looking forward to today.

Thoughts and prayers, everyone! 🙏

And as someone running through all the various tips and tricks to cool a house, the closing internal doors does not work. Not if that’s the hottest room, certainly. I thought i5 would keep it contained and separate from the rest of the place, which it did, but it’s been impossible to cool at all tonight.

Never doing that again.

Trick that helps a lot: pointing a fan at an open window or door facing away from another window in the room you want cooled the most (bedroom). It really does help exhaust all the hot air accumulated over the day.

I've just kinda...half dozed off for about 20-30 mins, if that...sort of not quite sure if I was asleep or awake but it felt a bit like I was hallucinating and seemed to be imagining I was interacting with a giant tv-screen type games console like you would a tablet but it was like I was in the game, like virtual reality... honestly feel ike I've just about lost the plot 🤣😂😂😂

Oh Lordy. Very fever dream!

God, I so want to tape up the remaining two metallic emergency blankets on my living room windows. It would help me enormously. But there are people living opposite and I’m too bloody conscientious. Even though they are quite thoughtless neighbours! Fuck it. I might just do it anyway.

To hell if they find it not nice to look at...if they're not good neighbours then why do they deserve you consideration? Foil up those windows if it's going to improve you comfort right now!

Oh, have you ever heard of a TV series called Black Books? One of the characters literally goes crazy with "Dave syndrome" when he gets too hot. in one episode with a heatwave...maybe that's a real thing now? 😂😭

Oh my, I adore Black Books and remember Dave Syndrome well! Lovely old bill bailey going full Dave. Fantastic.

And another episode in a heatwave (maybe the same one) with fran having her room gradually made smaller by Johnny vegas!