To sleep in the garden in the hammock tonight

[Missproportionate]

It’s 28 degrees in the house. I’m in zone 2 in London.

The hammock in the garden looks incredibly inviting (the hammock stand is the best thing I’ve bought in a long time)

I’m too chicken though.
The kids are inside but they are all 11+ and DP is away

“Horseflies. Get the evil fuckers in zone 2 as well”

This made me lol, like they’re not allowed further in than zone 6

The one time I ever slept outside on a sun lounger, some random male stranger lay down beside me in the middle of the night. I was awake because it was so hot, but I pretended to be asleep and then suddenly leapt up and ran inside, locking the door behind me. I shudder to think what might have happened if I’d actually been asleep!

Whoooah. Bizzzzybee.

I would love to sleep out in the garden but I wont also I cant.
We have foxes, cats and a variety of birds who are all a bit noisy at times.
Then we have the nosey neighbours.
It would seem to be just a dream for most of us and a nightmare for BizzzzyBee

Missproportionate,
I’m in east London and its just so hot , no air , uncomfortable and yes too hot for crime .
We have a small garden and I just might have to sleep out there soon.
😱

I’ve come in. A mosquito bit me

Guess the neighbour's weed didn't do the trick!
Bug spray. It's the only way. Or a mosquito net, and who has one of those just randomly to hand?

East London here too (waves)..
YANBU, but cover yourself in whatever it is that keeps the flying things at bay. I slept out on the reclining garden chair last night. I had a lovely cool sleep, but woke up to a line of half a dozen mozzie bites running diagonally across my face.

I’m back inside tonight, with ice packs.

NorthernBirdAtHeart,
Yeah we can’t win , but do you know what annoys me ?
You go on amazon to buy a couple of fans and they are 50 percent more expensive than when I last ordered them 5 weeks ago ?
And don’t get me started about the Central line( underground in London ) as you may as well forget going to work if you have to travel on that at peak times.

@Sparklfairy
Spiders rubbing willies in my face?!?!? That image is just not going to go away now is it...

I lay in our hammock for a bit last night reading and I've been bitten to shit by something. The one causing my eye to swell is particularly fetching but it's the one on my arse cheek causing the most pain!

How the hell I've been bitten on my bum and backs of my legs through the hammock/my shorts is anyone's guess

Avon Skin So Soft is your friend OP. It's never occurred to me to sleep in my garden but I might consider it over the weekend now.

I would do it, it will be cooler,and if it starts thundering again,will be so dramatic, a night to remember.. I have three cats, and because of the heat,they are down in the garden all night, instead of on my bed, and cats know a thing or two about keeping cool.

Bizzzzybee
That is 😱😱😱

My first thought is - nice but what about the spiders! I have lots of garden spiders making webs in the garden, I'm happy for them to catch the flies but I couldn't sleep near them. However if you're good with spiders then it looks like a nice thing to do, it's not often we Brits can sleep outside in our gardens, would make a nice memory during the winter months. Wishing you a restful snooze!

Don't do it without a mossie net and/or copious amounts of Deet. I speak from experience!

100% would sleep outside but there are seagulls dive bombing dogs and foxes are pretty amorous. I mean you'd think they'd at least take their partner on a date before coitus. There is a lovely cat next door though who I wouldn't mind joining me. But would feel sourly guilty if the poor thing got eaten by a seagull!

Horseflies. Get the evil fuckers in zone 2 as well.

I live in zone 2/3 and got bitten by one last year. It hurt like hell!

Do it. DC and I are sleeping out on the trampoline tonight. Did this a lot last summer - and we certainly slept better than being indoors.

I’ve done this before on sun bed. I love sleeping outside. Not sure I would use a hammock for full on lengthy sleep though - back will be buggered in the morning. Always did it where I couldn’t be seen by neighbours.
Don’t currently have a garden but I’d probably now think about foxes and stranger/neighbours - I suppose rigging up some kind of electric horse fence wouldn’t decrease any self consciousness !! Not sure I’d do it on my own anymore in most places.

@BizzzzyBee OMG where was that? Please say rural Australia or similar.

We had a party a few weekends back, my best friend and I drunkenly climbed in the hammock at the bottom of the garden at 2am, we were stargazing, reminiscing on old times and telling each other (repeatedly) how much we loved each other. Then a massive spider fell on us, into the hammock. I think we woke up the entire neighbourhood with our screams

I dreamed that exDP, who split up with me on Sunday, was going to sleep in his garden and I kept trying to as well but he told me I couldn’t and to go away. Been so confused trying to work out where the garden bit came from and I’ve just twigged it was this thread!
Not sure what inspired the full beard I grew in an earlier dream though.

I slept in sitting room with patio doors open - it was bliss

DS has been doing it for the last week. That said, he is an adult and has a mozzie/bug net. Much happier than in the house, we’re in Sussex and it’s hot!

I’ve realised that somewhere in our stuff we have a super duper hammock with a mozzie net specially for wild camping. The only time DP used it we were camping at a party and he was a bit drunk and turned over in it and fell out. Mozzie bit might be ripped.

Might have to call him and find out where it is....