So let’s have a thread for the summer lovers

I love the summer months too! I am usually a cold soul, and have trouble keeping warm in the winter. My hands and fingers go numb, and I have to wear extra layers and use a heated throw- just sensible things really.

I have found as I've got older, that I can't take the really hot temperatures as much as I used to. Gone are the days of lying out on a sunbed , these days I'm more likely to be found under a sunshade!

However, I think we just have to manage the situation as best we can, according to our preferences and needs. Mr LP prefers a cooler environment, so our old cottage ( blissfully cool in this heat, very thick walls ), is fitted with blinds at all the windows, and fans in most rooms.

I have taken to gardening in the mornings before it gets too hot, then relax in the afternoon under a sunshade or indoors, then watering the garden after tea ( 7 or 8 o'clock ) when it's cooled down again.

Don't try to fight the temperatures - you won't win! I feel for those who have to work in this heat, especially my DDIL who has to commute into central London.

I have continued to go to my line dancing classes this week, I love it too much to miss it! Plenty of water, loose clothing ( I even wore shorts and tried to forget about the state of my legs ), and the teacher brought large fans, so we coped ok.

It's a bit cooler today. Went to a car boot sale early this morning - it was very pleasant, with just a slight breeze. This afternoon we are at the theatre, so again loose clothing and hand held fan at the ready.

Do whatever you can to make the situation work for you. We all like different things, so not everyone can be content at the same time.

Take care everyone, however you are spending the day! xxx

BlueBelle

Why do you consider me disingenuous LeCrep
I was simple trying to make a positive thread to counteract all the ‘oh I hate the heat’ threads which happen every summer. this was not meant to necessarily be about the present ‘heatwave’ which obviously is an exception but summer in general
As I said in my original post I totally understand how for some through health, type of work, or area it’s a difficult time.

This was a light hearted thread for summer lovers but it’s been turned into a them and us, as usual so maybe I’ll just move on and leave it alone now

this was not meant to necessarily be about the present ‘heatwave’ which obviously is an exception but summer in general
To be fair though BlueBelle you do in your opening post say
I m loving this beautiful week (probably the only week, knowing British summers ) which has been an horrendously hot week with government issued health warnings. Very many of us have joined you in saying we love summer with the need for less clothing, ability to enjoy the outdoors, the longer lighter evenings etc but we can't join you in thinking this dangerously hot weather is lovely.

BlueBelle

I will add I ve never in my life been called disingenuous and I take it as quite an insult
Anyway I ll leave you to chat amongst yourselves

It's the "in" word Bluebelle. Don't worry
I had it a week or two ago.

No dont move on Bluebelle, your post title is self explanetary , its about/ for people who love summer , not for whingeying about heatwaves, just for people who prefer warmth to cold, those who dont like summer just pass on by and dont comment!

I will add I ve never in my life been called disingenuous and I take it as quite an insult
Anyway I ll leave you to chat amongst yourselves

Why do you consider me disingenuous LeCrep
I was simple trying to make a positive thread to counteract all the ‘oh I hate the heat’ threads which happen every summer. this was not meant to necessarily be about the present ‘heatwave’ which obviously is an exception but summer in general
As I said in my original post I totally understand how for some through health, type of work, or area it’s a difficult time.

This was a light hearted thread for summer lovers but it’s been turned into a them and us, as usual so maybe I’ll just move on and leave it alone now

I think the thread title is wrong. It should have been Lets have a thread for the heatwave at 34 deg lovers. I dont think there would have been many posters.
I expect the majority of people love summer time with warm weather and light evenings. I do. But this has been something else and is coming back.

You are choosing to be totally disingenuous BlueBelle. As for me, I’m going to enjoy a proper summer’s day; blue sky, sunny and around 25C with a cool breeze.

polomint

I agree * bluebelle* it is a thread for people who like the sun so why come on this thread to complain. The original poster is just asking others how much they are enjoying this hot weather. I'm in Central Scotland so we are not having such high temperatures. Just to add... I love sunny, dry no wind weather but temperatures around 22 degrees

I think you'll find lots of us have said we love summer but not the dangerously high temperatures parts of the country are experiencing. As someone in Central Scotland you haven't had to endure night time temperatures of 20-23 (your preferred daytime temperature) so forgive those of us that are saying these aren't bliss. As someone pointed out upthread you can love chocolate but that doesn't mean you have to love being forced to eat two kilos of the stuff every day. Aren't we allowed to say we too love summer, as long as its the the type that doesn't cause shop chillers and freezers to break, or hospital scanners and equipment to malfunction, trains not to be able to run etc?
Threads that are designed to be echo chambers where only those in full agreement should post would eventually even bore their own posters..

But I am agreeing with you Bluebelle I like summer but in London and various other parts of the UK the high temps recently are not the kind of summer weather I and many others recognise or enjoy. The reason we recall the summer of 1976 is because it was rare, but now these extreme temps are becoming common each summer so we don’t bat an eye. But we should. Because it isn’t the kind of seasonal averages our country should be getting and I have no doubt that before too long another heat dome will assail us. That is when we will pack our bags and travel to the parts of the UK no doubt enjoying temps between 21 to 24 degrees. That will be enough summer for us.

For BlueBelle

I agree * bluebelle* it is a thread for people who like the sun so why come on this thread to complain. The original poster is just asking others how much they are enjoying this hot weather. I'm in Central Scotland so we are not having such high temperatures. Just to add... I love sunny, dry no wind weather but temperatures around 22 degrees

I've been thinking about the reality of how long winter actually is, my perception is it's longer than summer or seems like it. Bad winter months, December, January February, March. November and April can both be a bit iffy. If we're lucky not too bad, April hot even, that lockdown year 2020 it was. So if we have a good run, May, June, July, August, September, late September and October can be the best Autumn has to offer.

keepcalmandcavachon Enjoy your respite from the intense heat. As not everyone is saying which part of the country they're in we could be comparing apples and oranges. grannybuy in NE Scotland enjoyed her day of 26C temperature as would I although that is about my preferred upper limit in this country with its high humidity.
When nighttime temperatures have not dropped below 21-23 for a couple of nights it is exhausting. The Urban Heat Island effect is real, those that live in cities do not get the cooling effect of sunset that those who live in villages, small towns or near the coast enjoy.

LaCrepescule there’s about four threads decrying this hot weather I started this thread for people who enjoy deep summer and not as a continuation of the other threads.
Not everyone loves summer or heat but some do so this thread is for the lovers not the haters 🤣

Helterskelter no I m not reading the ‘roll on cool weather’ room, you’re dead right 🤣

It was 34* in my neck of the woods yesterday, and yes the beach is beautiful right now Witzend anyway I m sure we ll be back to a normal British summer very, very soon.

Phew! The Heat bubble seems to have passed for now ( here at least) so may I please join 'The Summer Lovers' until the next excruciating blast?
Feeling so excited to be able to go outside after 9.45 am, Yipee!

I like it, but not the current extreme heat - not unless I can be on a beach with nice shady trees, and a turquoise sea to fall into….

Well I’m not enjoying it while it lasts BlueBelle and can’t wait to see the back of it from tomorrow. How you can see temperatures in the mid to high 30s as enjoyable is beyond me. It’s ok when you’re on holiday in say Greece but the heat there is dry.
The current weather is causing misery to millions of people in this country and not just old biddies like us.

Oh BlueBelle I was OK with yout last post until "Enjoy it while it lasts".

I don't think you are reading the room.

We will hopefully have a week of cool then it hots up again. So it is actually lasting. Whether we will Enjoy It is doubtful.

I think there are probs some who have not been getting the worst of the high temps who are obviously enjoying temps in the mid to late twenties etc. yesterday the temps in London were on a par with Dubai and the capital of Iran. A postie told me that inside his van was measuring 47 degrees. Outside it was in excess of 35/36 degrees.
Nobody could go out in it unless they had to and I really feel sorry for those working in it.
If we get these temps again we will be trying to escape to other cooler parts of the UK where we will get an Airbnb until the heatwave subsides.
Believe me, and I love summer, this is extreme and not enjoyable.

I m not dismissing anything at all Rosie51 it’s called balance people die or are ill in any extremes and I m balancing it as everyone was quoted ‘heat deaths’.
And yes many years there are 10 / 11 months of greyish weather we often have ‘summers’ that are very disappointing with just a couple of good months of even just a few weeks to get excited about, by the way I didn’t say ‘enduring’

Anyway you see it your way I ll see it mine
Enjoy it while it lasts

CV2020 you could have stayed out all night last night here in Outer London and you wouldn't have needed a blanket or fire pit.
I was considering spreadeagling myself on the grass at 1.00 am. I had possibly 2 hours sleep last night and it's still hot now and will get hotter.
This isn't a lovely summer as I know it and normally love. I feel so sorry for anyone in a hospital ward, sitting in A&E, at home with a baby or small children, anyone getting up to go to work today and of course all us older ones in hot flats and houses and/or with caring responsibilities for youngsters or older folk.

Scotland always sounds lovely and especially at the moment. We will all be migrating northwards as this heat becomes more common.

grannybuy' I'm envious of your 26C, that's about the upper limit I find comfortable. The current 36C daytime 24C overnight with humidity we're having is just unbearable. I love the length of daylight in summer, I hate the dark of winter and autumn. But when extreme temperatures are causing shops to have to bin food because the chillers are breaking down under the strain, patients are not receiving life saving treatments and scans because equipment is breaking down, the trains can't run because extreme temperatures cause buckling rails etc etc then I really don't think extreme temperatures are a cause for celebration.
Because people die of cold in the winter is no reason to dismiss those that will die as a result of these extreme temperatures as BlueBelle appears to do. And I don't know anywhere in the UK that endures 10/11 months of cold, chilly, grey gloomy weather. Even in the Artic circle they don't claim that!

I’d love summer more if it was warmer than it is normally here
(NE Scotland ). The beauty of holidays in warmer countries is that the evenings are still warm. We had great, and very unusual, weather on Tuesday - about 26deg -, and in the evening it was still warm, but it’s gone downhill since. I know that the current temperatures down south can make life uncomfortable, but I must admit, l’m still envious.

Me too — I just love the summers where it is warm. I’m in Central Scotland however spend most of the school holidays in Essex looking after two of my grandchildren.
I once told my parents, in my teens, that I was born into the wrong family, as I longed to live in Italy at that time.
How rude of me in hindsight!
Nothing nicer than sitting in the garden until late at night! Sometimes with a fire/patio heater on and a blanket. My happy place.