To be utterly pissed off and fed up with this weather….

[TheFairCat]

I know there’s already been loads of threads about it, so apologies for being so original but OH MY GOD!

I’m not usually a particularly whiny person and I don’t ever remember being particularly troubled by hot ( or cold!) weather before but honestly, I feel like I’m going lose my mind!

Maybe it’s combined with hot flushes or something because no one else I know seems to be struggling that much.

I was fine at first; just thought it would only be a couple of days we’d have to suck it up. We
got the fans out, ate a criminal amount of ice lollies and did as little as possible. But now it feels like it’s been a couple of weeks of non stop over 28 degree heat every day where I live. It’s also unbearably humid. Trying to clean the house is grim. I feel like I’m swimming through treacle and my brain is mush. I can’t concentrate on work, I can’t sleep at night. I am constantly uncomfortable and the house has now heated up to such an extent that no room is even close to cool.

I realise this probably sounds ridiculous but I can’t really go out in this heat. I mean I can go to work (though my office has no air con and is also grim) and I can manage the school run and the supermarket etc, but I can’t go for a walk, or run about at the park with the kids. I definitely wouldn’t want go out in town or mooch about the shops, or eat out etc. I don’t want go in the garden because it’s so hot. The swimming pool is lovely but the changing rooms are beyond the pale. There’s no way I could cope with a day out at the zoo or a theme park with the kids.

I’ve never been so hot or so uncomfortable in my life! I have lots of loose, comfortable clothes, summer shoes etc but I still feel like I want to rip my skin off!

Is it just me? Weather forecast seems to be saying 10 more days of heat wave and I could cry!

I really do feel for you all. I'm in London, and while I'm absolutely not a fan of 32 degrees, I'm absolutely not a fan of soggy grey weather either, especially in July! Very depressing

But it looks like the heat is coming up your way, doesn't it?

Yes, but in my part we aren't forecast to go above 30 degrees.

@RampantIvy I see

I think perhaps I'm so desperate for the forecast to have something normal in it, like 22, (which still wouldn't help my flat cool down that much ) that I looked at that and thought it's not worth the travel. And much as I love Yorkshire it really isn't worth the travel in this situation - I was literally just thinking, where can I get to this weekend that's not going be hot!

I’m glad to see I’m not alone! (Though that’s perhaps rather selfish of me…)

Today was another roaster and I got f all sleep last night…. I was fortunate to be somewhere with air conditioning during the day today, but am back to my sweaty house now.

I feel like I can smell feet all the time. We’re all having cool showers twice a day, but the whole house just feels kind of damp…. Just for fun, my youngest also wet the bed last night, for the first time in YEARS. I can only assume it was the 5 litres of water he drunk before bedtime. I feared it spelt trouble but am also paranoid about dehydration…

I can’t even enjoy a cold beer as any amount of alcohol seems to raise my temperature yet further!

My self pity knows no end….

@TheFairCat i can’t drink alcohol in this weather

there was a thread last week where someone was buying a dual hose air con unit. My ancient single hose can’t cope on the heat so I’m curious to know what results they got but can’t find it, did anyone else see it or did I imagine it?

Loathe it. My cat loathes it. Wish it’d piss off now