Anyone else sick to death of the heat?

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I know there have been numerous threads on this already but OMG, I cannot taking this sodding heat any more. I actually feel sick today because it's so oppressive and I can't get anything done around the house, which is like a furnace. Normally it's like this for a few days in the summer before cooling again, but it's been about six weeks of intense heat now in the south-east.

It's looking like tomorrow is the last of it thankfully - I sodding well hope so.

Anyone else completely fed-up?

No it's brilliant and I hope it stays like this forever

Yes, I really struggle with the heat too! My joints all hurt, my head hurts and I'm just fed up. I want to sleep properly and be able to heat again 😭

For those wishing to move north - Scotland is also hotter than satans bawsack!

I feel like it's a totally wasted summer! It's too hot to do anything. I only have to move and I'm sweating. Feel constantly tired and lethargic. The thing is, you can't compare it to being on a holiday abroad as then you'd have pools and the sea to cool down in, air con in the room and restaurants, waited on, no cooking/cleaning etc. Can't wait for a bit of cold to get me moving again. Then I'll moan it's too cold and I can't get going, lol.

I feel for you all down south. We're in Glasgow and its bad enough here.

It's hard for me to cope with the heat - London, south-facing upstairs bedroom, sleep completely fucked - but worse is the drought, the great stretches of brown grass, the fires and the devastating effects on wildlife. I reckon it's too late for Planet Earth.

For those who love it, can you just acknowledge the fact that it isn’t meant to be this hot. And do you understand that while you may love it, it’s really not doing the wildlife much good?

And do you also understand that the weather isn’t going to stay like this? Will you still be loving the heat when it’s over 40 degrees regularly? Surely air conditioning exists because most people don’t love heat.

Anyway, yes it’s awful. I’ve got two portable air conditioners (please don’t shame me for contributing to global warming - I live in an upstairs flat and I sleep on a sofa so I’m not prepared to suffer further!) so it’s tolerable but it’s not much fun just sitting here and not being able to go out. We’re moving up north next year….and yes it is currently 31 where we’re going but in a few days it’ll be back down to around 18 and here it’ll still be 25.

i know right! “I hate people moaning about the heat”…

So I’ll wind myself right up by clicking on a post bemoaning the heat

Clever

Scotland is being bought up in swathes by climate-savvy Chinese hedge funds.

OK having read the illuminating responses from those in Scotland I’m off further north - the arctic circle should do nicely.

''@LemonadePockets ·
For those wishing to move north - Scotland is also hotter than satans bawsack!''

it got to 35 in London so I am happy to swap for Glasgow's 27/28....:)

Yes. We have battled on with DS3 - been to Longleat where they have a splash pool, been swimming, went to a steam fair today with some big trees - but I have had enough. I don't have enough bras, DS is 2 floors up so can't sleep without turfing one of us out of our bed, and to top it off - it's now wasp season.

If the room is above 35c a fan will not cool you down as heat is getting near body temperature. It’s 31c in my flat so I am getting some cooling from my fans.

Yep. Absolutely can't stand it. I'm pouring with sweat, irritable, and just feel like a big grumpy sweaty mess. I'm struggling to find ways to entertain my toddler outside the house without having to be out in this insufferable weather.

No. I absolutely love it

We’re meant to have our first holiday abroad with DC later in the summer and I am so sick of being too hot that I do not want to go anymore. Everyone else is looking forward to it but I’m sick of being sweaty and swollen. If I could cancel, I would and I’d be booking in at centre parcs back when it’s 19c.

Ill be getting at least one AC unit for next summer too, one DC keeps getting unwell and I can’t tell if it’s the heat or the illness making him lethargic, hot and off his food.

My colleague has RA and everything swells up. I feel so sad for her, she hasn't taken a single minute off sick all through both heatwaves, she's such a star.

It's a shame people lack empathy isn't it.

i have found I've coped marginally better in the second heatwave than the one we had in July. I'm so grumpy though, good thing DH loves the heat so at least we aren't both grumpy at the same time!

Holding out for the ☔️

wet a sarong and pop round you and stand or sit in front of a fan for a while

Such ingenious and practical advice for those of us who work in A+E

By opening the windows early in the morning when nobody is in the office yet to do the window opening?

A lot depends on home set-up. I visited friends today and their house was much hotter than mine and I really struggled. Did make me wonder if the trend for lots of glass will disappear if we get hot summers. I kept trying to escape to the downstairs loo as it was the only place that wasn’t over 30 inside.

Apart from not being able to walk the dog at decent times I love it. Most summers are washouts and there will be enough damp/dark/dreary months days for the next 7 months to depress me!

I’m finding it scary . I can cope with high temps, I’m sleeping fine, but omg we have SCREWED the planet big time. YY to the knock on effect on food prices. And more air con is just going to make things even worse! The lack of water, dying crops and wildlife, so many places becoming uninhabitable across the world… when I hear people wax lyrical about it I silently question their intelligence. it’s not in any way positive.

Fed up and saving hard for aircon that will reverse and do heat in winter.

My feet are massive, my legs have swollen i feel like im wearing a thick pair of weighted socks, its hitting the outside of my thighs now meaning im squished in my chair , im getting pressure sores.. I can't sit on the sofa long though because that puts my hip out and traps a nerve. The only respite from pain is lying in bed but from 9am onwards until about 1am, thats FAR too hot up there even with a fan blasting away and no covers, stark nekkid.

Soles of my feet are burning, theres nothing I can wear on them that fits but slippers, but if I don't wear the (full fluffy booty!) slippers then the non-slip of the footplates is dragging at my feet..

My hands are swollen, its uncomfortable to type, everything is sweaty, I can't wear anything but bra and boxers and so eeeeeeeeverything is tickling my already itchy skin (pain meds = itchy).

It is fucking horrible, and I can't go outside until after dark, I have to sit here and work at my desk cos I certainly can't afford time off and what would I do anyway, there is literally nowhere and no way to be comfortable in my own skin at these temps and this humidity!

Yes sick of it, this isn't British summer weather.to top it off was meant to be near sea on holiday with husband and children but had to cancel because having urgent hospital tests so we are all stuck in the city

Always amused by the autumn/winter lovers on Mumsnet. Talking of roaring fires, crisp days, snuggling under the blanket with kids drinking hot chocolate watching a film. There was on about 2 months when my kids were happy to sit for more than a nano second watching a film under a blanket. Weather is usually mild and rainy for autumn/winter. Spend most of the time driving about in the dark and wet from school, clubs try to get the kids to do homework when there's not been weather nice enough to let off steam for weeks. I must have done it all wrong.