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Original poster

to be fed up of this bloody weather?

110 replies

angelene · 31/05/2009 21:28

It's boiling hot.

I have red hair and pale skin and I really dislike the feeling of hot weather.

I have bad hayfever.

This weather pisses me off so much - if it's cold you can put another jumper on, or turn the heating up, but there is NO ESCAPE from the heat.

I feel woozy and heavy-legged. My eyes are either stinging from sun cream or itching with hayfever. I look shit in summer clothes and I can't wear heels. My ankles and feet are swollen and I'm not even pregnant.

And yet because I have a DD I have to get out and DO stuff which makes me feel worse, rather than being at home with the curtains closed, which is what I really want to do. And it's not fair to DD who is a real outdoor girl and loves it.

The thought of a long summer of this is making me feel very depressed.

I know I'm being a bit of a drama queen, and am probably being a bit unreasonable, but the fetishisation of the hot weather in this country pisses me off (and I needed a rant).

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minouminou · 02/06/2009 15:43

I suffer horrendously in anything above 18-19C - pregnant or not.
Anyone who likes hot weather is a WEIRDO , and anyone who likes the cold is a right-thinking member of society who deserves a subsidised trip to northern latitudes EVERY SUMMER.
And if you come after me brandishing your flip-flops, beach towels and crap holiday novels, I shall away to Alaska, where you can never follow.
So there.

Original poster
angelene · 02/06/2009 15:46

Yeah, minou, SISTAHHH

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mollyroger · 02/06/2009 15:49

love, love LOVE the sun!
But I have been pg twice through huge heatwaves (summer of 97 anyone?) and I can appreciate how miserable it is for some people.

Having said that, I love cold and frosty and snowy too.
I just can't bear grey grey, wind and rain.
The sun makes me DRUNK!

Turbomouth · 02/06/2009 15:55

Angelene I've come to join you over here Another fellow sunhater

Poppity · 02/06/2009 16:07

YABU

I am pale, freckly, red haired and have hayfever.

I have a hat, good suncream, and piriton.

I LOVE the warm weather. It's happy and I feel like I'm on holiday all the time!

Agree about the pregnant thing though, I had one at the end of a v hot summer and that was hard.

Btw, stop jinxing the sunshine

CatIsSleepy · 02/06/2009 16:10

i like sun but not heat Confused
am a low-to mid-twenties kind of gal really
and there's bugger-all shade in our garden apart from a crappy parasol and so I can't really take 11-week old dd out there
and it's too bloody hot and sticky breast-feeding her

MOAN WHINGE

hazeyjane · 02/06/2009 16:20

Aaaaagh stop telling me I should feel lucky that it's not as hot as it is in hotter than hot places.

I'm sweaty and sticky, Piriton makes me drowsy, hats give me a headache, sunscreen makes my eczema play up (which is worse for the heat), and no matter how much water I drink I feel dizzy and light headed (maybe I just wee it all out too quickly).

Sorry, I am a Summertime Scooge

LyraSilvertongue · 02/06/2009 16:36

Why are you all moaning about hayfever? There are plenty of medications out there that will take the symptoms away. Pills if you're not pg, Beconase nasal spray if you are pg.
Personally I love the sun and the warmth and I wish it would stay for 9 months of the year.

LyraSilvertongue · 02/06/2009 16:37

Hazeyjane, there are plenty of alternatives to Piriton. I'm a hayfever sufferer too and I never take Piriton because of the drowsiness. Beconase is brilliant.

AllFallDown · 02/06/2009 16:38

YANBU Those who love the sun can't understand the fear and hatred it inspires in those of us for whom a tan is just a pigment of the imagination. We are not denying you sunlovers the right to get out on your loungers, just wondering why it is assumed that everyone feels that same way.

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angelene · 02/06/2009 16:48

Beconase is the devil's work. The spray comes back down the back of your throat and tastes EVIL. It's a toss-up as to which is worse, hayfever or Beconase.

And when the pollen is bad then hayfever remedies do not get rid of symptoms completely.

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Poppity · 02/06/2009 17:11

Allfalldown, I'm very pale, I love the sun. I don't want to lie in it, I just love being outside doing whatever in it(with proper protection of course!)

LyraSilvertongue · 02/06/2009 17:24

Beconase does

YanknCock · 02/06/2009 17:25

Um....really sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I've been to Alaska in July and recall it being sunny and warm with neverending daylight. Temp in Fairbanks today was 23C, and will be 28C later this week! I think we need to go to Antarctica.

mollyroger · 02/06/2009 19:13

oh I'm no sunbather - blonde and pale and never ever tan. I just love being in the sun and how pretty everything looks and how cheerful everyone is and how sitting in my scruffy back yward suddenly feels mediterranean.

6 weeks of rain - now that makes me depressed.

Bubbaloo · 02/06/2009 19:16

YANBU-I also hate this weather.
Infact,I even went to a soft play centre today as it was so hot and we had the whole place to ourselves.

Poppity · 02/06/2009 19:28

what mollyroger said

DH says he heard it's going to rain at the weekend

scaredoflove · 02/06/2009 19:32

hayfever sufferers you do not need to suffer

I have had it since early childhood, the secret is to take the medication (whichever one of choice) daily and recommended dose, even on low pollen days, for the duration of the season. I take benedryl 3 times a day, I rarely get symptoms, usually if I've not taken it properly for a few days. I get mine on prescription as it works out cheaper

You can also take other steps...wear sunglasses when out, cover bed with a sheet during the day and remove at bedtime (stops pollen settling) turn pillows when you go to bed, leave a window open but leave curtains/blinds shut during the day, if you go out change your top on return, wash hands and face regularly, wear a hat but remove indoors, brush hair regularly through the day

You really do not need to suffer at all

BBisfinallyPG · 02/06/2009 19:33

well to make you feel better, at least you can take something for your hayfever, im pg and cant! and im also pale, but im not finding it too bad, just stay in the shade and have the fan on windows open and dose up!

LyraSilvertongue · 02/06/2009 20:37

I've been heavily twice pg in the summer (DC born August and June) and that wasn't really a big deal either. People make such a fuss about nothing.

twoluvlykids · 02/06/2009 20:44

angelene, yanbu

I too am pale skinned and red haired, and also chubby, and hate hate hate hot days.

When I came home from work I slept for 45 mins, as it was so hot!!

i used to cope much better b/4 kids, but something changed in my skin, and I'm very prone to burning now, my family laugh at me for slapping on factor 50 and sitting in the shade!!

FairLadyRantALot · 03/06/2009 14:25

hope you are happy now

Poppity · 03/06/2009 20:30

Fairlady, we're still sunny here, please don't say it's really going already?

LyraSilvertongue · 03/06/2009 23:48

It was cooler here (SW London) today. That's it for the hot weather I reckon [sad[

reach4sky · 04/06/2009 09:28

Yup, a whole what 3 days worth