Just Too Hot to Get Any Sleep

Don't be so childish, Oreo.

😲😂

shutters! I meant shutters!

I’m washing a large very heavy
French linen sheet for later,
then fold it double, over the airer
in front of the bedroom windows
which will be wide open all night

this draws the heat and
keeps me cooler
then tomorrow the same
with the bath towels
then the large heavy cotton
bedspread, hoping the airer
doesn’t collapse, for the night
when temperatures are going
to be mid 30’s

wooden shitters would be good

It’s muggy here already but cool

DS lies the other way around in bed
achieving maximum air flow around
his head from the windows or fans,
a brilliant idea
simple but effective

Through the night of doubt and sorrow, springs to mind!!

I'm off miles, or kilometres, across France to source a fan. Locally they're all sold, and I can't do Amazon here. Also, we need cans of face sprays to cool down the beetroot look.

Your pleasant is almost 10 degrees lower than ours at 7 am RosesandLilac. 😆

Another one who slept badly here, I have already walked tiddler and a laying on the bed having a cup of tea.
It’s pleasantly cool at the moment indoors but already 19° outside.
The dogs have cool mats, bigger dog rarely uses hers, Tiddler’s is put to good use.

I've had a terrible night.
I want to put in a complaint!
It's ridiculously hot.

I used a frozen sports gel pack or two, buy one that has a cover, quite cheap to buy. It's the opposite of a hot water bottle.

I still have a light duvet and yes....unless it's really really really hot, my comforting HWB. The main thing for me is to have a good enough flow of air to breathe.

In the middle of purchasing a cooling tower fan from Curry’s - delivery due tomorrow. The fan rotates and has a section you fill with cold water or even ice so the air blows across it and is cooled.

MissAdventure

So have I!!!
The blankets were more reasonable than the pads, so I thought i could lay the blanket on my bed and sleep on it, hopefully.

Anyone else for Kool and the Gang

So have I!!!
The blankets were more reasonable than the pads, so I thought i could lay the blanket on my bed and sleep on it, hopefully.

I've just ordered one of those cooling blankets from Amazon. We shall see!
If it works I may order another to make into a Cooling Kaftan a la Margo Leadbetter

I thought about ebay, but wanted to read the reviews on amazon.
I'll go and have a nose around ebay now, though.
Still trying to work out if I'm the equivalent of two cavapoos!

I have two small gel cooling mats by my side in bed all year round. It is lovely to reach an arm or leg onto them. They do warm up quite quickly with prolonged contact though. I buy them on Ebay.

The dog cooling mats are effective. I have hot flushes still, and I use them on my pillow, I find if I have a cool head the flushes aren’t so bad. They do get warm when you lie on them for a while, so I have two, and swap them over, they soon go cool again. You can also put them in the fridge to get them really cold.

I've currently got our pillowcases in the freezer.

I am also a cold bird but I haven't needed my hwb for two nights. The duvet is only folded over in case I feel chilled. I could sleep on a clothes line so I am sleeping with only a dressing gown covering me. On average in this heat I sleep for 7 hours.

I on;y used a fan when I had a cat, she loved it and I pointed it away from me towards the door.

I've just been looking at the dog mats on amazon, trying to work out which part of me needs cooling the most.

Sorry should say well BE right

Thank you Miss Adventure, you may well get right!

I think some people use the dog cooling mats.
Its certainly the cheapest way to find out if these things work

I still have my hot water bottle for my feet,🤣 I m still tucked under a nice fat duvet, so as you can see I never ever suffer from heat hahaha you’re probably sweating reading this but it’s true I rarely feel the heat.