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To think it is just too fucking hot?

148 replies

Crunchymum · 04/08/2018 00:31

Its 0:30 FFS

To think it is just too fucking hot?
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BlackberryandNettle · 04/08/2018 22:40

LOVING the hot weather here 🌞🌞🌞💟💟💟 The sort of every day hot summer, always able to be outside, that memories are made of. Bloody deserve it after that winter....!

OliviaStabler · 04/08/2018 22:42

Can't sleep here as it is so hot the windows are open and there are either one or more very noisy parties going on outside. No music thank goodness, but lots of loud talking which is making it hard to sleep. More Wine I think

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 04/08/2018 22:47

21° right now.

Metoodear · 04/08/2018 22:50

Mans not hotWink

Just come back from France it was 34 near enough the hole time fucking miserable ended up crying one day I was just so thiresty and hot

MeltingPregnantLady · 04/08/2018 22:52

As my name suggests I'm not coping. I'm on the verge of asking for an induction because I'm at that level of not coping (I'm 36 weeks). The heat and lack of air is causing me to have intense anxiety attacks and I've barely left the house in weeks due to the heat.

I'm not exaggerating when I say it's broken me.

toomanycuddlytoys · 04/08/2018 23:01

Fed up with it. Not been to park since holidays started as it's too hot. My son hates this intense sun and heat. Desperate for some cooler days so we can get back to doing our usual outdoor activities. Our city's population seems to have become very wierd in this prolonged heatwave. Pubs in city centre packed in middle of day and lots of loud and annoying behaviour.
Getting so many midge bites, can't sleep and generally tired and grumpy

wigglybeezer · 04/08/2018 23:03

@helenadove think of me during the winter when I have to wear a hat and my dressing gown over my clothes indoors to keep warm, then I'll envy your insulation!

stopfuckingshoutingatme · 04/08/2018 23:04

Could be worse
Could be southern Portugal
I read they don’t have air con and can’t leave the house till 6 pm Shock

stopfuckingshoutingatme · 04/08/2018 23:09

For the first time EVER I am grateful that I work FT
With air con

recklessruby · 04/08/2018 23:21

Sitting outside in garden at moment. Much cooler than house. South East England. But I expect I am getting bitten by all sorts of insects which will wake me up with red itchy lumps tomorrow.
Ds has a fan in his room but the air feels like warm soup.
I hate it and am escaping back to Aberdeen for a few weeks soon.
Even if it's hot the north sea is freezing 😊

HelenaDove · 04/08/2018 23:23

wiggly as long as you would be happy with the mould that comes with it This building is not suitable in more ways than one.

Just been to see my 82 year old DM and im frightened this will kill her.

LighthouseSouth · 04/08/2018 23:30

@MeltingPregnantLady

I'm sorry you're having such an awful time.

I'm not even pregnant, but also feel stuck indoors - I have to go to work on the Tube - no A/C at work - and my asthmatic lungs are pretty much as max capacity after that.

a poster upthread talks about a summer of memories - all I'll remember of this summer is being trapped inside...

  1. thank goodness for so much good TV on catch up

  2. complete loss of fitness as I've had to virtually stop going running and that was really helping my lungs so that's annoyed me as well as making my mental health worse

  3. constant, constant noise and itchy ears from having to have earplugs or earphones in all the time

LighthouseSouth · 04/08/2018 23:32

oh even my sister's family are pissed off now

she and adult DC planned Greece as soon as school holiday prices were over and now they are wishing they hadn't because they've had enough of blazing sun.

AmberNectarine · 04/08/2018 23:38

DH and I couldn't sleep last night, so tried to make the best of it by shagging at 3am.

All fine in the moment (isn't it always? You could sever my leg and I'd barely flinch), but afterwards it felt like a poor life choice to engage in vigorous physical activity. I think even my eyeballs were sweating, so I spent the remainder of the night drinking from the tap like a dog, before giving up and coming downstairs at 5.50am.

It's like Mills and Boon in this house.

Sorry to those who are really suffering 😕

LighthouseSouth · 04/08/2018 23:46

@AmberNectarine

that made me LOL.

RedNed · 04/08/2018 23:51

I'm Australian, and used to the heat, but London nearly did me over. We're in Dublin now and it's much cooler.

I remember bastard hot summers growing up but we had a pool and the houses are built for air to flow through, not keep the heat like ours in London was.

Miserable.

NewtScamandersNaughtyNiffler · 05/08/2018 00:13

It's far far far too hot. I haven't had a decent nights sleep in ages. I'm exhausted and grumpy.

A lot of my friends are posting on Facebook how wonderful it is to be able to be outside everyday. Lucky them who don't work/ have the summer off/ have AC and reasonable bosses who have relaxed the dress code etc.

Meanwhile I'm stuck doing 15 hour shifts in a building where the heating is still on and we can't get to the individual radiator switches because the maintenance team don't have time to remove the radiator covers! Uniform has to be adhered to and is thick and sweaty .

I can't spend my days off outside because ds2 and I burn if we spend more than 10 seconds in the sun, even with factor 50 on and the heat gives me migraines.

That said, as much as I want rain I really hope it doesn't come when I'm camping in a couple of weeks!

Twotabbycats · 05/08/2018 00:17

I'm in Europe and it seems every summer we have at least 2-3 months when it doesn't drop below 30 - I'm bored with it now! Currently 28 in my bedroom Shock and I'm seriously considering sleeping in my car! To be fair I think the U.K. has been worse than here this year (I always find the U.K. hotter and muggier in the summer than where we are, regardless of temp.) Helps that we have an old house with thick walls so always a bit cooler inside than out (except in the very middle of the night) but after a few weeks of unrelenting heat the house seems to have absorbed the heat into its walls! I agree with PPs, it just makes me so unproductive. I break out in a sweat if I move! Cannot bear cooking so trying to find meals that require minimum effort. Would quite happily live on ice cream! Supposed to drop to mid-20s on Thurs - can't wait! I am a spring and autumn lover - roll on September when it's rare for it to hit 30!

AornisHades · 05/08/2018 00:19

Melting hospitals are notoriously warm and airless. However bad it is at home, it will be worse in hospital.

HelenaDove · 05/08/2018 00:22

Bloody hell Newt...............................when are these employers going to access their fucking common sense.

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 05/08/2018 06:35

Red we have the back door and the DC's window open, so we get a flow through.

LighthouseSouth · 05/08/2018 11:27

so some of you might recall the fridge is iffy as well as the freezer not working - they are separate.

this morning the milk (almond) was frozen solid.

I don't know what do anymore on the food storage front.

RedNed · 05/08/2018 13:44

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks but is the house open plan? That's what you need for proper airflow through it.

purplelila2 · 05/08/2018 15:49

I hate hate hate hate this heat with a passion. It's making me feel very frustrated .

It's too hot to cook so I never know what to make and sick of salads and cold sarnies.

My stupid house has a South facing conservatory which heats up the entire downstairs and we get no cool. breeze from the garden .

Its hell on earth

Bluelonerose · 05/08/2018 16:05

I've had enough too. I love the heat but it's the humidity that's getting to me. I was up from 3am hanging washing out.