Anybody else melting?

[The Duke]

We had trh rain around the time you mentioned bob. But never got rid of any of the heat. Been awake since 05:20! Just dossimg in bed listening to a book. Will be leaving the house to sit in that boiling pot all day in 30 mins. Get a hair cut first I think if open.

[Dave Rice]

Thunderstorms just woke me up, did nothing for the heat, in fact there was little rain just a few sharp showers.

Not quite as hot as Richard at 20 but it’s heading upwards quickly.

[Bob Williams]

As in Dave’s last, but prostate woke me at around 0230 I think*, to thunder in the distance preceded by huge flashes across the big Lincolnshire skies. No rain accompanied it and it was stickily hot. Spent the night until an 0500 prostate alarm woke me again, in the nuddy on top of the bed. Atm it’s 27º and climbing, forecasted to be 30+ by 1400. Going for a paddle at Sutton on Sea later!

*I am not entirely conscious during these nocturnal loo visits, but my aim is still OK.? Any potential burglars would flee at the sight of me in the nuddy.?

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Richard]

We have now reached the almost standard temperature of 34.8 and, yes it is hot, though oddly the humidity has dropped to only 38%. Inside it is cooler at 28, but more humid at 48%. I am not planning to do much today, I bought a nail extractor for when I work on the shed roof but that will not be today. The dogs have declared today a day of rest and are flat out on the floor ignoring whatever the world has to offer. I will be going to see a spinal surgeon later this afternoon to see what my MRI has revealed. Physiotherapy on my hip has been declared ineffective. Now, I must try to get back to the orthopaedics department to see if they can offer anything more. Telephone contact is proving almost impossible to obtain, just a verbal list of other extensions, so I am not making progress. The hip joint is fine, the tendon joint to the pelvis is not so happy, neither am I.

It is not clear why I am getting up and visiting the bathroom at night, the tablet I take have largely removed any pain and the PSA is fine. To be honest I visit the loo because I am awake rather than because I have woken up for that purpose, it is just another annoyance.

[Bob Williams]

Very humid here and 33ºC; we are a few miles inland, but at Sutton on Sea it was 31 and a lovely offshore breeze with an incoming tide. The sea was quite warm although cooler than the sand, which was very hot. We two enthusiastic paddlers cooled our baking feet and managed to get our shorts wet.

Then a lovely farm-produced ice cream at Farmer Brown’s van. Visited daughter and gdaughter, home for tea, smashing day.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[Dave Rice]

Sounds ideal. Not much on as it’s holiday season. so I was going to sort the workshop out but it’s too darn hot in there.

Determined to get out tomorrow and sit under an umbrella somewhere with a cold beer or ice cream watching the world go by. May be the Bristol Docks area at the Wild Beer bar, they do an excellent thirst quenching Gose Lager called Sleeping Lemons. Not very alcoholic so OK for a bottle or two in the day time.

[Richard]

Well it is now 08:30 and the temperature has reached a ‘modest’ 29.5 already. A family day out to Duxford, my wife and I, daughter, husband and two small children, looks likely to be challenging. Large hats have been procured and hopefully the presence of the exhibition halls will provide some relief points. It might be extra challenging as my wife is on session six of her second round of chemotherapy at the moment and it does not play well with the heat…

Oops a few moments later and it is already well over 30 degrees. Thank goodness the dogs have been walked, an hour’s walk from 06:30 this morning.

[blacklion1725]

Good luck Richard – I love Duxford and it is one of the few places that might tempt me out in this heat – hope you all have a great day.

[Richard]

We had a good time out but by just gone 14:00 we had had enough and all were happy to wait for the site courtesy bus and ride back to the start. Our grandson is fascinated by planes so it was a day in heaven for him. It turned out that he also like fire engines and other mechanical devices though at just over two years old he was not doing too well on knowing one from the other. Lots of planes were landing, taking off and taxiing, some with the aid of a tractor or tug heaving them backwards, score one extra point for each tractor spotted. His sister enjoyed the day out as well, lots of out time, lots to see and wonder at though some of the more harrowing aspects of exhibits were not instantly apparent to her. The sight of a young child fished from ruins and carried in the arms of an ARP warden hit our daughter quite hard, as she suddenly realised the woman warden was not the child’s relation.

But it has been HOT. The car registered over 41 degrees as the outside temperature and never dropped below 38 on the way home, though the garden is now showing ‘only’ 36.3 at 15:47. The dogs slept and have not yet demanded a walk, they can demand all they want until it cools down; though to be fair, for the moment walking out is not top of their minds

We came close to not getting there at all as someone forgot to stop at a side turning and veered out into our path, a narrow miss resulted, but at least it was a miss and the rest of the way things went rather better.

[PlaneMan]

I was sat outside the doctors 5 minutes ago and I was so hot my eyes were sweating. Indicated 33c by the car but being in direct sunlight made it feel much hotter.

[Richard]

The view waiting for the sag waggon to take us back to the start.

PlaneMan wrote:

I was sat outside the doctors 5 minutes ago and I was so hot my eyes were sweating. Indicated 33c by the car but being in direct sunlight made it feel much hotter.

Too late now but before we went there and knowing how hot it would be I invested in some wide brimmed sun hats with a chip strap/chord as I did not want to be the one trying and failing to catch a hat bowling across the runway in the breeze. The alternative is a brolly, it might look a bit out of place on a dry day in the not-so-UK, but in hot places they are surprisingly popular to generate a bit of personal sunshade because they just work quite well.  At least the hats work well enough today and left hands free for bags, children and helping me to get up when I tried to reach down to the floor.

[blacklion1725]

got my wide brimmed England cricket hat for the same purpose – life saver.

[Dave Rice]

All my plans went out of the window. Mrs R waiting for a call from the doctors after which it was too hot to think about even the walk to the bus stop. It’s still 22 and doesn’t look like getting much cooler. It did try and rain just now, downpour for 30 seconds then even the clouds couldn’t be @rsed.

It was this hot and muggy in Geneva & Venice but we managed to get out and get things done. Probably the cooling breeze from the bodies of water once you got on the shore, but I think a good nights sleep in an air conditioned room had more to do with it.

[Wheels-Of-Fire]

<p style=”text-align: justify;”>Both the temperature gauges we have  have hanging on the shed registered 104F at 5.00 pm today. The gauges had been in the shade for a couple of hours but the rest of the shed was not.</p>
Still, 104F if you were standing next to the shed !

[Tippon]

Apart from a brief few hours in the early hours of this morning, it’s been over 27 degrees in my living room for the last few days. I’ve been on high dose steroids for the last few weeks, with extra doses last week, so I’ve been warm anyway.

Got a phone call today saying that I need to go to the hospital in Cardiff for blood tests, and the only way to get there was on the motorbike, about an hour each way in full kit, in this heat. I think I lost about a stone in sweat.

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