Is anyone actually sunbathing in this weather?

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When I was young it was my mission to get a tan on holiday or even in the back garden whenever the sun came out. I could lie out for hours with factor 4. Everyone seemed to do it!

I just sat in the garden for 5 minutes and it was unbearable so I have come back in to watch the tennis with the fan blasting.

I’m only twenty minutes drive from a beach but haven’t sat on the sand for years.

Do people still sunbathe or like to tan these days? Are you lying in your back garden in the heatwave?

i’m in the garden under an umbrella with factor 50 on because the breeze is more pleasant than my house.

I'm in Spain with similar temperatures to the uk. Feet up in the shade and about to open my kindle. Bottle of water at my elbow.

I don't sunbath and never did, firstly I get bored and secondly I think I was put off by friends mums who all did it and looked like well tanned leather bags by their late 40s.

My DH will sunbathe in the garden, he loves it! He does wear sunscreen but has skin that naturally tans (quite jealous of him really, I just burn and freckle)

Scotland its rained for weeks. Summer Wednesday- Friday and todayb16 degrees foggy and drizzly rain 🙄🙄😳🥺

I have a bit. But we have a pool in our back garden so it's easy to cool off. It's one of those above ground things and we put it in the loft in the winter. Best sixty quid I've ever spent!

I've been in Cornwall this week and was watching some young people stretched out in the sun for about an hour while we had a meal overlooking the beach one lunchtime. They were toasting like kebabs on a spit. Most people had sunshades or tents to protect the DC from the sun, but not everyone. So yes, to answer your question, but I don't see the awful sunburn you used to see back in the day.

My neighbour sunbathes. I can't help noticing as can see directly into the part of her garden where she does it while I'm working. However, I haven't spotted her doing it during the recent heatwaves. She's about 70 so of that generation that did it when they were young. My two 20 something daughters don't do it in the garden. Simply too hot but I'm sure they do on pool holidays with friends.

God, no. I used to do it in the 80s. In vain, because I just go pink really, and then it peels off 10 days later, even with a very high factor on. The only way I'd tan (slightly) is if I was outside for an hour every day in early summer on cloudy days when it was cool and just let it develop naturally through an outdoors kind of lifestlyle but seeing as i work fulltime in an office that's never going to happen.

I didn't think anyone sunbathed in the actual sun anymore in very strong sun as it's so bad for your skin and these days many young women are very particular about how their skin looks using all sorts of skin care to get the glass skin thing going on. No-one s going to have glass skin if it's been damaged by the sun.

I would never sit in the sun in a million years. I find it quite shocking that some still sunbathe nowadays.

Me too. It's almost the equivalent of smoking to me, with the cancer-causing damage it does.

Having said that I can understand people relaxing under a parasol by the beach and dipping in the sea every now and again. But full on out in the blistering sun slathering on a low factor and sweating away, just so you go brown. No, I really don't get it.

Of course! Topping up my Greek tan from last month. Factor 30 on though.

I don't mind lying in the sun with a book but ONLY if I'm next to a pool or the sea and can regularly cool off. Always wear factor 50 tho.

Ive just been in mallorca where it has been 35-39° the past week and uv is 11.
There was a definite divide at the beach between people moving their sunbeds every 20 min or so, to continue being in shade, and those who were moving them to be in sun. On the hottest days we didnt go to the beach!
I was amazed at how many people were lying in full sun. We had a villa with a garden and pool and I couldnt spend more than 10 min in the sun, unless I was in the pool, luckily there was also a lot of shade in the garden.

We sat on the beach and walked around in the sun nearly all day yesterday. But we were at Hunstanton and there was a fresh northerly breeze that stopped us feeling sweaty. The sea water was the warmest I have ever known it in the UK.

Tell you what though, in the time we were there, between the two of us we drank the following: five bottles of water, two pints of lemonade, one coffee, one pot of tea, two large fruit smoothies, a Dr Pepper and a Coke. And we had two ice creams.

No, I'm not.
I stay out of the sun.
I burn easily but tan eventually.

I got burnt a lot when I was a child and a teenager.
I'm just waiting for the day when I'm diagnosed with skin cancer.

Any tan at all is skin damage. I cringe that I used to tan when I was in my 20s. I’m positively phobic about sun exposure now. And fake tan is so good nowadays, even my husband adds tanning drops to his (SPF 50) face moisturiser.

When I was young in the 1950s and 1960s we used to lie about in our back garden and enjoy doing nothing. We didn't call it sunbathing.

When I was a bit older, in my early 20s, I did a little bit of topless sunbathing in the roof garden of the flat i was renting.

Now I'm older I never sunbathe. Apart from knowing how adversely it affects people's health it is just so boring.

When I was younger about 12 on a hot day I would lay outside in full sun literally all day with no sun cream on at all, just to get brown. Obviously I burnt first but what didn't peel off eventually went brown.

Not only am I shocked I used to do this, it's incredible that my mum let me do this! Nearly every photo of me in the summer as a child shows me with sunburn.

I can't bear the sun now I can only sit outside if I'm under the apple tree.

I still see lots of people use the tanning salons on the high street.

Tanned skin is a sign of skin damage got burned too many times as a kid to chase the sun
I'm Scottish with the Scottish complexion
It's 31.5 outside in hiding inside

Only on holiday but the last one we went on was Egypt in August! Even DH was sat in the shade after a few days lol. I burn and get a bad head if in the sun too much.

Used to but not anymore, can't take the heat having nearly passed out twice when hot in the sun (and once when leaving a jacuzzi).

No . Lie on the bed under the fan.